PAVEMENT
CUT POLICY
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Steve Kahn, Interim Public Works
Director/City Engineer
Gabriel Munoz - Morris, Senior Engineer
Background
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• The City has completed 70% of Measure K-14 streets
• Approximately $34 million completed
• Additional $14 million in next 8 years
• Completed $2.4 million in Major Street projects in last decade • Additional $12.5 million in next 5 years
Pavement Cut Coordination
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• Staff coordinates with utility companies ahead of all paving projects to avoid pavement cuts
• Successful efforts to date – utility improvements prior to paving • Impossible to prevent all pavement cuts
• Utility emergencies, new utility construction (previously unplanned), and development projects all cut into streets • Often, these situations are not predicable at time of street paving Effects of Pavement Cuts
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• Rehabilitated Streets = Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of 100 • PCI declines over time due to weather, routine use, and pavement cuts • Pavement cuts accelerate street degradation
• A newly paved street PCI will drop from 100 to as low as 80 after one pavement cut
Balanced Priorities/Current Requirements
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• Development projects are important to the City
• Prior Council Direction - “find the right mix” of pavement requirements • Eliminate excessive pavement conforms (prior)
• Pavement cut policy (now)
• All pavement cuts require restoration per City standards • Regardless of time since last street project
• Most projects involve multiple cuts
• This creates multiple pavement repairs in a short span • No pavement moratorium
• Staff not seeking one
Neighboring Requirements
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• City of Pismo Beach
• Pavement Cut Ordinance passed in 2018
• Established timeframes and requirements for pavement restoration • City of Arroyo Grande
• Pavement Moratorium
City Standard - Trench Repair
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Current Requirements
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Proposed Requirements
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• Three categories of pavement cuts
• Cuts into streets paved within 0-5 years
• Cuts into streets paved between 5-10 years
• Cuts into streets paved 10+ ago/Cuts into streets sealed last • Different Requirements for each category
Streets Paved 0-5 Years Ago
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• Requirement to restore trenched areas and pave uniform 2-inch top layer for length of project/property frontage
• Pavement repair would extend to edge of travel way, centerline, or full width of street – depending on area disturbed
Streets Paved 0-5 Years Ago
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Streets Paved 5-10 Years Ago
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• Requirement to restore trenched areas and pave uniform 2-inch top layer for extent of project/disturbance
• Pavement repair would extend to edge of travel way, centerline, or full width of street – depending on area disturbed
Streets Paved 5-10 Years Ago
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Streets Paved 10+ Years Ago
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• Requirement to restore trenched areas and pave a “tee cut” per City Standards
• Pavement repair would extend one foot on all sides of furthest disturbance
• Similar to current requirement for all pavement cuts
• Roadway section design life – 20 years
• Maintenance, cost, financial diminishing returns
Streets Paved 10+ Years Ago
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Current Requirements – Utility Mains
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• Utility Mainline work also cuts into pavement
• Staff proposing similar pavement cut requirements for utility mainline work
Proposed Requirements–Utility Mains
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Next Steps
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• Alternatives for Council to consider
• Adopt Pavement Cut Policy
• Adopt modified version of this policy
• Do not adopt a policy
• Provide alternative direction to staff
• Policy would become effective November 1, 2023
• Post policy on Public Works webpage
• Condition development projects and encroachment permits accordingly going forward
The End
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