Chapel Hill - Burying Utility Lines? (house, neighborhoods, moving)

[Kensei]

Hi all, moving down to the Triangle and have my eye on a lot that I'd like to build on. However, the street frontage is obscured by utility cables being run across on poles - from looking at them it seems like telephone, power, and cable.

Other areas of town have utility cables buried, which make for more pleasant curb appeal, and I was wondering - is it possible (at my cost) to have the utility companies bury these lines? Anyone done anything like this before?

[919 rtp]

The utility poles will stay forever. But you can pay to have the lines from the pole to your house buried. Former neighbors of my parents did this a few years (10-ish) ago.

Depending on the neighborhood, you might get power back faster after a storm than other neighborhoods. Esp. if its a main line heading off to a lot of customers.