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City Council adopts 25-year pavement-management plan; staff to examine increasing annual paving budget
Summary
Council approved a citywide pavement management plan that inventories 113 miles of city streets, rates segments by condition and lays out a five-year resurfacing program. Council asked staff to explore raising annual paving funding from about $1.0M–$1.5M to accelerate repairs and consider alley-policy changes.
City Council gave final approval on Sept. 3 to a citywide pavement-management plan and a five-year resurfacing program prepared by Johnson Engineering, which inventoried 113 two-way miles of city streets and rated them using a pavement-condition-index (PCI).
The inventory and condition assessment
Johnson Engineering staff said the airport-staffed survey broke the roadway network into 309 segments and used visual condition ratings and 120 pavement cores taken last fall. The assessment found roughly 0.23 lane-miles in poor condition, 12.17 miles in fair condition, about 67 miles satisfactory and roughly 34.5 miles in good condition (overall average rated "satisfactory"). The consultant displayed interactive GIS layers linking mapped segments to condition scores.
Five-year and 25-year programs
The adopted five-year program calls for roughly 29 lane-miles of work across FY2025–2029 (about $5.5 million total). Johnson Engineering and city staff identified a prioritized slate of corridors for 2025 and subsequent years; staff reported the first 2025 contract bids came in below budget and that staff planned to accelerate a couple of 2026 segments into 2025 using the favorable bids.
Funding discussion and next steps
Council members pressed staff about funding scale and whether Naples should target a higher annual paving commitment. Staff said the city currently budgets roughly $1.0 million per year for resurfacing in recent budgets and has been able to increase that in the past two fiscal years to roughly $1.5 million; council members suggested a discussion to pursue $1.5–$2.0 million per year in order to accelerate backlogged work and finish more lanes sooner.
Council asked staff to return with options to increase the multi-year program — including identifying sources (additional public service taxes, TDC grants for corridors that serve tourism, or other revenue measures), and a clearer alley policy about material (coquina/shell versus asphalt) and cost-sharing for alley upgrades involving private developers. Staff said it would bring back an alley-policy recommendation and explore funding options before the next budget cycle.
Why it matters
The plan creates a data-driven resurfacing schedule, replacing ad-hoc decisions with a transparent priority list and a 25-year horizon. Council discussion emphasized coordination with other utilities and stormwater projects to avoid repaving newly excavated streets and the need to time paving with infrastructure upgrades.
Ending
Council approved the pavement-management plan and asked staff to return with budget scenarios and a proposed alley-policy framework to guide funding and material choices.
