Moraga staff recommend balanced 20‑year street plan; council voices support

The Town of Moraga on April 9 heard a townwide street management update from Public Works Director Sean Knapp, who recommended a “balanced” 20‑year maintenance strategy to preserve the town’s current pavement condition index and to fund storm‑drain and landslide repairs.

Knapp told the council the town manages about 56 centerline miles — roughly 10,000,000 square feet — of pavement. “Our PCI is up to amazing 78%,” Knapp said, and he estimated the replacement cost of the town’s roadway network at about $160 million and deferred maintenance at about $22 million.

The presentation outlined four modeling scenarios and staff’s preferred option (scenario 5), a mixed program of preventive maintenance, overlays and targeted reconstructions. Staff said scenario 5 best balances maintaining a high average PCI while funding a scheduled set of safety, ADA and storm‑drain projects. Knapp said staff recommends carving out about $600,000 per year for the first seven years specifically for storm‑drain and localized landslide repairs and noted that one storm‑drain program Knapp identified is roughly $1.6 million and that staff found about $300,000 in savings that…