Pavement Rehab & Street Cut Moratorium

Pavement Rehab & Street Cut Moratorium Policy

The City plans for its major pavement rehabilitation 5 years in advance to coordinate large-scale rehabilitation projects across the City. Day-to-day pothole repair is responded to through the City's Street Maintenance Division. The City continues to have a backlog of streets needing rehabilitation due to limited funding for such work. However, considerable advancement continues to be made in improving pavement conditions as the City conducts annual pavement rehabilitation projects. The information on this page outlines planned work for the coming five years and five years of past major rehabilitation work within the City under a moratorium.

Funding

The City funds the capital pavement rehabilitation program primarily through the City's Streets Fund, which receives revenues from State Gas Taxes (Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017), Measure T Sales Tax, various grant funds, the City's General Fund, and various other smaller funding sources.

Priority Rehabilitation

The City prioritizes the use of its limited funding in the repair of the City’s streets using the following criteria, in conjunction with the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of each street segment as identified in the City’s Pavement Management Program:

Repairing and maintaining arterial and collector roadways ahead of residential streets.
Pavement condition through review of the pavement condition index for each specific street segment.
Grouping roadways that are adjacent to limit impacts to residents and achieve cost savings related to mobilization costs.
Repairing roadways that are ongoing safety issues.
Repairing street segments that reduce the ongoing and repeated maintenance needs for the City.

Pavement Moratorium

The City finds that any cut into street pavement significantly degrades the roadway and that restoration methods exist to restore the street to its pre-excavation condition. All streets within the City of Chowchilla that have received pavement resurfacing or reconstruction are not permitted for excavation or utility cuts for a period of five (5) years from project completion. The project completion date is the date of filing the project Notice of Acceptance by the City Engineer.

Exceptions to this policy are as follows:

Emergencies that endanger life or property.
Interruption of essential utility service.
Work that is mandated by City, County, State, or Federal legislation.
Service for buildings where no other feasible means of providing service exists.
Other situations deemed by the City Engineer to be in the general public's best interest.

For all exceptions granted, other means (boring, etc.) shall be used to limit the amount of street cuts to the minimum necessary to complete the work. The City shall provide specific restoration requirements for exceptional work granted as approved by the City Engineer. Companies that perform non-permitted work that violates this policy shall restore the roadway to the limits using the method determined by the City Engineer. At a minimum, the restoration shall be from the edge of the pavement to the edge of the pavement.

Completed and Upcoming Pavement Rehabilitation Projects

Planned rehabilitation is based on funding availability and may change. Reductions in funding or increases in costs may delay planned rehabilitation work. Urgent rehabilitation needs that arise may also delay planned rehabilitations. This list of completed work is shared to provide information related to the street pavement moratorium but is not a comprehensive list of all street rehabilitation, pedestrian improvements, or general maintenance work.

2019 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2025

Fuller Neighborhood Project - Lake Avenue from 6th Street to 11th Street

2020 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2026

Road 16/5th Street Curve Reconstruction Project - Road 16 between the Mariposa Avenue Alignment (5th Street curve) and Avenue 25
Wilson School Safety Improvements Project - Orange Avenue from 5th Street to 7th Street and 6th Street from Robertson Boulevard to Humboldt Avenue

2021 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2027

Road 16 Rehabilitation Project - from Avenue 25 to Avenue 24

2022 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2028

Funds accrued for the Humboldt Ave. Street Improvements Project

2023 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2029

Humboldt Ave. Street Improvements - from 3rd Street to 15th Street

2024 Pavement Rehabilitation Project – Under Moratorium Until 2030

Robertson/Kings & Robertson/Trinity Alley Paving Project
Chowchilla Blvd Rehabilitation Project - Ave 24 and continuing northwest for approximately 1.5 miles

2025 Planned Pavement Rehabilitation

Pavement Rehab & Street Cut Moratorium