In most of our rural areas, the physical space is not too much of a challenge. That's probably more of an issue in our Edmontons and Calgarys where rights-of-way are in busy high traffic density areas. We tend to use the template that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities put out fairly recently. It really helps to resolve disputes between municipalities and service providers. But like you said, in the good old wide country areas, right of way doesn't tend to be a biggie.
On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.