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San Leandro Commercial Broadband Strategy disruption, and more effective and efficient use of broadband services by local businesses. Although future demand cannot be guaranteed, the knowledge that a certain standard of broadband connectivity will be predictably met as the City's overall development goals are achieved provides a basis for telecommunications companies to project demand. The greater the confidence in projected demand, the higher a given community will be on corporate capital investment priority lists. The same considerations apply to public infrastructure investment. Consistently including broadband facilities, such as conduit or lateral connections, into public infrastructure projects can, overtime, reduce the cost and the risk of future broadband facilities. An example is the current Lit San Leandro project which was made possible by the availability of an extensive City -owned conduit network originally installed for traffic signal control purposes. The fact that City construction decisions taken many years ago met the needs of a telecommunications project today was due to planning based on the City's telecommunications needs, which in many ways parallel private development needs. Going forward, the more consistently public infrastructure projects take public and private broadband needs into account, the likelier similar outcomes will be. 5.2. Recommendation 2: make broadband a standard review criterion As discussed above, many jurisdictions have specific broadband facilities requirements for various aspects of planning and use policies and approval procedures. In this respect, broadband is treated no differently than other essential utilities such as water, electricity and waste water. Broadband facilities and service availability should be included as criteria when reviewing private sector development plans, much in the same way that the City currently considers electrical and water provisioning. Consideration should be given to: • Standards or requirements for fiber connections to existing networks. • Placement of empty conduit to support future network connections. • Design and scale of telecommunication service entry points, vaults and closets. • Access opportunities for competitive providers. • Conduits and cabling for internal networks. • Accommodation of future internal and external upgrades. 16 July 2012 TellusVenture Associates Page 26