§ 2-28-25. Permit application.

(a)

A permit may be requested by:

(1)

Completing an application form;

(2)

Submitting any required supporting plans or documents; and

(3)

Paying any applicable permit fee.

(b)

A permit application shall not be deemed submitted until:

(1)

It has been fully completed by the applicant in accordance with the requirements of this article;

(2)

It contains all required attachments; and

(3)

Any fee(s) due have been paid.

(c)

As part of any permit application to install, maintain or place a new facility in right-of-way or to collocate on or maintain, modify or replace an existing facility in right-of-way, the applicant shall provide the following:

(1)

Engineering drawings signed and sealed by a Florida licensed professional engineer showing the location of the proposed installation of facilities in the right-of-way shall be to scale and show:

a.

The offset from the centerline of the right-of-way or road to the proposed facility installation;

b.

The road right-of-way and pavement width;

c.

The distance from edge of pavement to the facility;

d.

The location of all other facilities within the area of work;

e.

The facilities to be installed and their size;

f.

The means and methods in which the facilities shall be installed;

g.

One or more typical cross sections to adequately reflect the location of the facility;

(2)

A simple key map showing the location of the proposed facility;

(3)

Information on the ability of right-of-way to accommodate the proposed facility;

(4)

An engineer's cost estimate;

(5)

The timetable for construction of the project or each phase thereof, and the areas of the county which shall be affected;

(6)

If applicable, a make-ready work estimate at the applicant's expense for the work necessary to support the small wireless facility, including pole replacement. (If pole replacement is required, the scope of the make-ready estimate is limited to the design, fabrication, and installation of a utility pole that is substantially similar in color and composition.)

(7)

Such additional information as the right-of-way manager deems reasonably necessary with respect to the costs, placement, maintenance or replacement of the facility that is the subject of the permit application to review such permit application, including but not limited to a maintenance of traffic plan to address any disruption of right-of-way.

(d)

When the right-of-way manager determines that the scope of work for any right-of-way work permit includes encroaching or impacting automobile, bicycle or pedestrian traffic, the applicant shall submit a traffic control and management plan along with the permit application. This traffic control and management plan shall comply with the standards of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Series 600 Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) or the MUTCD Typical Applications. Any proposed nonstandard MOT that does not comply with FDOT Series 600 MOT standards or MUTCD Typical Applications shall be developed and signed by a certified International Municipal Signal Association or American Traffic Safety Services Association (or other professional deemed qualified by the right-of-way manager) traffic control specialist. Specific plan requirements may be determined by the right-of-way manager, who shall have the authority to grant amendments to the plan as changing conditions of the site, project or traffic patterns may require.

(e)

Permit application forms that have been completed by anyone other than the applicant or the applicant's authorized agent shall not be accepted or reviewed. Information provided in the application, including electronic data files, shall be accurate, legible and readable.

(f)

Nothing herein shall be intended as requiring any applicant or permittee to submit plans, drawings or specifications which are deemed proprietary and for which there is no current Florida Public Records Act disclosure exemption. The applicant or permittee shall clearly mark any record it deems to be exempt from disclosure as such and shall provide with specificity the statutory provision supporting the exemption asserted.

(g)

Each applicant for a permit shall submit a nonrefundable application fee in conjunction with the submission of the permit application.

(h)

An applicant seeking to collocate small wireless facilities may file a consolidated application for a single permit for the collocation of up to thirty (30) small wireless facilities. Fees for these consolidated applications shall be calculated based on the sum of the fees which would have been applicable for individual applications and permits covering each location.

(Ord. No. 17-21 , § 3, 3-7-17; Ord. No. 17-48 , § 3, 11-7-17)