File #: ORD 16-076    Version: 1 Name: Fiber Optic Network
Type: PH-Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/30/2016 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/26/2016 Final action: 7/26/2016
Title: Consider an ordinance granting a franchise to use streets and other public lands of the city of Harrisonburg for operation of a fiber optic network
Attachments: 1. Memorandum, 2. Ordinance, 3. Public Notice, 4. Signed Ordinance, 5. Arts Cultural Overlay

Subject:

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Consider an ordinance granting a franchise to use streets and other public lands of the city of Harrisonburg for operation of a fiber optic network

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Presented By:  City Attorney Brown

 

Recommendation and Review

Shentel has requested that the city grant a franchise to use streets and other public lands of the city to lay fiber optic cable. Fiber optic cable to be installed by Shentel will connect various city owned properties through dark fiber.