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Components of a Broadband Plan should • Determining a model for deployment (open
include: access, municipal utility, public-private
partnership, private service provider, anchor
• Creating a broadband coalition working
tenant, etc.).
group with surrounding jurisdictions, such as
neighboring counties and incorporated cities • Ensuring that policies, public works standards,
within the County, as well as institutions that rely zoning, and subdivision regulations are consistent
on broadband such as hospitals and universities, and compatible with advancing the broadband
and with private sector providers to collaborate plan (such as coordinating installation of
toward achieving seamless access and improving broadband conduit in trenches when water and
capacity. sewer lines are laid or requiring developers to set
aside small areas of land for telecommunications
• Inventorying existing communications
infrastructure, services and initiatives. equipment).
• Identifying gaps in services and assessing For more information:
community readiness.
BroadbandUSA: Guide to Federal Funding of Broadband Proj-
• Evaluating alternatives and completing a ects https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/funding-list
feasibility analysis. National Broadband Plan: www.broadband.gov
• Completing preliminary design of a preferred American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service
Report Number 569: Planning and Broadband: Infrastructure,
alternative. Policy and Sustainability
American Planning Association PAS Essential Info Packet:
Local Broadband Planning
Source: Southern Crop Production Association
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