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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE 7 OF THE VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY
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WHEREAS, the Village of Orland Park (the "Village"), Cook and Will Counties, Illinois, is a home rule municipality in accordance with the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970; and
WHEREAS, the Village has the authority to adopt ordinances and to promulgate rules and regulations that pertain to its government and affairs and governing the use of public rights-of-way and that protect the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the Village uses the public rights-of-way within its corporate limits to provide essential public services to its residents and businesses, including traffic control signals, water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer; and
WHEREAS, other utility service providers, including electricity, telephone, natural gas and cable television and video service providers have placed, or from time to time may request to place, certain utility facilities in the public rights-of-way within the Village; and
WHEREAS, legislatures and regulatory agencies at the State and federal levels have implemented changes in the regulatory framework to enhance competition in the providing of various utility services; and
WHEREAS, the combination of legislative and regulatory changes and the development of new technologies has led additional service providers to seek opportunities to provide services in the Village; and
WHEREAS, these regulatory and technological changes have resulted in demands for access to and use of the public rights-of-way in the Village as service providers, particularly in the video and communications services, and in attempts to provide new or additional services to compete with incumbent service providers; and
WHEREAS, unlike prior deregulations of utility services in which incumbent service providers have been required to make their t...
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