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Resolution No.19-02, Amending the Rights-of-Way Fee Schedule to Include Small Cell
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Amend Resolution 13-26 and Resolution 14-10 governing Rights-of-Way (ROW) usage fees and establish Resolution 19-02 ROW Usage Fees Schedule including fees for Small Cell facility Rights-of-Way usage.
Background
Small Cell management and deployment within Oregon City Public Rights-of-Way (ROW) is expected to increase significantly over the next several years. Industry projects a 50% increase in deployment of Small Cell facilities over the next 2 years. An estimation of 40% of telecommunication providers will have 100-350 Small Cells per square mile by 2020. The nation’s 5G network capabilities is the platform of the future for data processing and wireless communication.
The demand for data processing capacity has led industry to seek solutions in Small Cell deployments along public ROW and new Federal rulings are setting guidelines for municipality public rights-of-way usage fees.
Oregon City staff have reviewed the current needs of the industry, the federal regulations and the impact of these communication industries within Oregon City’s ROW. Staff has reviewed the permitting requirements, actions required to complete thorough reviews, and resources allocated to the rights-of-way management and facility deployment over a five-year period. The City’s analysis of appropriate usage fees considered both assessment of the annual resources needed for a typical small cell installation as well as an overall program comparison using historical program costs allocated over an assumed number of small cell installations.
Since the Small Cell industry is new following the City’s adopted ROW Ordinance and fee resolutions, Resolution 19-02 includes a new Usage Fee Schedule that retains the various utility service usage fees as previously established and establishes the Small Cell Facility usage fees as proposed in this recommended action. The Sma...
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