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Resurfacing Program - Street Maintenance

The Quality of Life Department maintains over 310 miles of streets. Considering the number of local and multi-lane arterial roadways, the total maintenance responsibility is approximately 930 lane miles of streets to maintain.

The Quality of Life staff evaluates roadway maintenance needs based on a number of criteria. A pavement management program for most of the streets within the City of Redlands was developed a number of years ago. This program tested pavement conditions and provides recommendations based on the structural sufficiency of the pavement. Other criteria used to analyze resurfacing needs includes traffic volumes with the percentage of truck traffic, local residential versus major arterial roadways, surface conditions including pot holes, wearing surface, and roughness, etc. Deferred maintenance evaluations are also considered. The pavement management program was updated by a visual inspection of each street. This updated information was used to determine a resurfacing and maintenance priority ranking for each City street.

Patching and rehabilitating streets in poor condition can more than consume a budget allotted for street maintenance. Meanwhile, streets that are in relatively good condition but at a point where "timely" lower cost maintenance is needed are left unattended, causing them to enter the rapid deterioration phase in a few years. Therefore, "good" streets need routine maintenance and may need to be ranked ahead of what might be termed a "failed" or crisis street. Preventing good streets from slipping into deterioration will intervene in the chronic cycle, but it will not save the failed streets. Many times the staff recommends that a portion of the street resurfacing budget be allocated to a slurry or chip seal program in a relative low cost effort to avoid the further deterioration of the good streets. Full resurfacing is scheduled for poor condition streets and reconstruction is recommended for failed streets through the Department's capital improvement program.

The City has established a three-year moratorium on any utility cut in a newly resurfaced, other than for emergency repairs. Utility companies and contractors who cut City streets are required to provide either a street cut fee or a long-term warranty for roadway restoration.

Funding for Street Resurfacing comes primarily from the City’s General Fund. However, Assembly Bill 2928 has provided much needs revenue for resurfacing since 2000. Funds from Measure I, San Bernardino County’s half-cent transportation sales tax, are being used in the current fiscal year for the street resurfacing program in lieu of money from the General Fund.