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<br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 96-181 <br />BY: COUNCILMAN DEAN MCKAY <br />AN ORDINANCE TO ENACT A NEW CHAPTER 929 ENTITLED <br />"UNDERGROUND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS" OF THE <br />CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO <br />AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of North Olmsted, Cuyahoga County, Ohio <br />that: <br />SECTION 1: Chapter 929 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North <br />Olmsted, shall read as follows: <br />"929.01 PURPOSE AND POLICY. <br />All underground communications facilities, including telephone and cable <br />television, in which facilities are located within the public right-of-way or within the <br />underground utility easement are intended to be located entirely underground or with the <br />top flush with the surface of the ground in residential areas. <br />Underground communications facilities shall include all facilities in which the <br />cables, ducts, conduits and conductors are located primarily below ground within the <br />public right-of-way or utility easement. It shall not include facilities which are primarily <br />above ground cable, conduit and conductors and which are not located in an underground <br />utility easement as of the effective date of this ordinance. <br />Such underground communications facilities shall not include appurtenances <br />located above the surface of the ground such as transformers, amplifiers, junction boxes, <br />pedestals or similar equipment where such equipment would pose a hazard to the <br />motoring public traveling on a public street, or entering or exiting a public street. A <br />hazard includes visual obstruction. Transformers, amplifiers, junction boxes, pedestals or <br />similar equipment serving underground cable, conduit and conductors may not be located <br />above ground in a residential neighborhood unless a special permit is obtained from the <br />City as described hereinafter.