Underground Utility Easements and Project List

At a glance

Council members said obtaining easements is the main bottleneck for burying utility lines and questioned a two-project cap on design work in the undergrounding program, which they said hurts small retrofit projects. This is tied to the proposed Dominion Energy and Berkeley Electric Franchise Agreements.

Sources

• YouTube auto-generated captions of the 2026-10-26 - Special City Council meeting

Log

2026-10-26 - Special City Council

• Members urged treating undergrounding easements like public infrastructure rather than relying on voluntary easements and asked whether the design cap can be expanded. Dominion said the city or developers can pay for design to move projects up the list.