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Alice staff outline phased street-rehabilitation plan, urge utility coordination
Summary
City engineering staff presented a phased street-rehabilitation plan that ranks pavement by condition, estimates repair types and costs, and recommends coordinating utility replacement to preserve new pavement.
City of Alice engineering staff on March presented a multi‑phase street‑rehabilitation plan that ranks local roads by condition and proposes staged repairs across four quadrants of the city.
The plan, introduced by Wayland of the engineering department, maps streets using a Present Serviceability Rating (PSR) scale from 0 (worst) to 5 (best) and proposes repairs ranging from two‑course chip seals to full‑depth asphalt replacement depending on structural needs. Wayland said the team “assign[s] the street a number from 0 to 5” and uses that rating, together with an engineering structural number, to decide whether a road needs surface fixes or full reconstruction.
City Manager Michael Esparza and engineering staff emphasized that utility cuts shorten pavement life. The…
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