It makes sense that CNBC has ranked North Carolina America’s top state for business three of the last five years. While Washington debates how to modernize America, North Carolina has spent years actually doing it. They have helped North Carolina attract extraordinary levels of private-sector investment while many other states struggle under permitting delays, infrastructure bottlenecks and slow deployment timelines. And this means more utility infrastructure — broadband, electric, water and gas systems — must coexist inside increasingly crowded rights of way. It’s not that infrastructure relocation delays are due to bad actors or opportunism.