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<br /> <br />(19) (20) Facility or Facilities. Any tangible asset in the right-of-way required to provide utility service. <br /> <br />(20) (21) Five Year Project Plan. A plan adopted by the City which shows projects to be constructed <br />within the next five years. <br /> <br />(21) (22) High Density Corridor. A designated portion of the public right-of-way within which <br />telecommunications right-of-way users having multiple and competing facilities may be required to build <br />and install facilities in a common conduit system or other common structure. <br /> <br />(22) (23) Hole. An excavation in the pavement with the excavation having a length less than the width of <br />the pavement. <br /> <br />(23) (24) Local Representative. A local person or persons, or designee of such person or persons, <br />authorized by a registrant to accept service and to make decisions for that registrant regarding all matters <br />within the scope of this Chapter. <br /> <br />(24) (25) Management Costs. The actual costs the City incurs in managing its rights-of-way. Such costs, <br />if incurred, include those associated with: <br />A. Registering applicants; issuing, processing, and verifying right-of-way or small wireless facility <br />permit applications; inspecting job sites and restoration projects; maintaining, supporting, <br />protecting, or moving user facilities during right-of-way work; determining the adequacy of right- <br />of-way restoration; restoring work inadequately performed after providing notice and the <br />opportunity to correct the work; and revoking right-of-way or small wireless facility permits. <br />B. Management costs do not include: Payment by a telecommunications right-of-way user for the <br />use of the right-of-way, unreasonable fees of a third-party contractor used by the City including <br />fees tied to or based on customer counts, access lines, or revenues generated by the right-of-way or <br />for the City, the fees and cost of litigation relating to the interpretation of Minnesota Laws 1997, <br />Chapter 123; Minnesota Statutes, Sections 237.162 or 237.163, or any ordinance enacted under <br />those sections; or the City fees and costs related to appeals taken pursuant to Section 32-22. <br /> <br />(25) (26) Obstruct. To place any tangible object in a right-of-way so as to hinder free and open passage <br />over that or any part of the right-of-way. <br /> <br />(26) (27) Obstruction Permit. The permit required by this Chapter must be obtained before a person may <br />obstruct a right-of-way which allows the holder to hinder-free and open passage over the specified portion <br />of that right-of-way for the duration specified therein. <br /> <br />(27) (28) Obstruction Permit Fee. Payment made by a permittee to cover the costs as provided in <br />Section 32-7 (2). <br /> <br />(28) (29) Patch or Patching. A method of pavement replacement that is temporary in nature. A patch <br />consists of: <br />A. The compaction of the subbase and aggregate base, and <br />B. The replacement, in kind, of the existing pavement for a minimum of two feet beyond the edges <br />of the excavation in all directions. A patch is considered full restoration only when the pavement <br />is included in the City’s long-range plan. <br /> <br />(29) (30) Pavement. Any type of improved surface that is within the public right-of-way that is paved or <br />otherwise constructed with bituminous, concrete, aggregate, or gravel. <br /> <br />(30) (31) Permit. The meaning given “right-of-way permit” in Minnesota Statutes, Section 237.162.