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Jacksonville officials, JEA and builders agree to rework 50-foot "case 9" overlay rule for recently repaved streets
Summary
City council members, JEA staff and home builders agreed to meet and draft clearer language on a decades-old rule that requires a mill-and-overlay when recent pavement is cut, in some cases forcing 50 feet of resurfacing on either side of a utility excavation.
Jacksonville officials, utility staff and local home builders agreed to form a working group to rewrite a long-standing repair rule that requires large resurfacing patches after utility cuts on recently paved streets.
The committee meeting Wednesday focused on the so-called “case 9” repair requirement, described in the meeting as a 50-foot measurement from the roadway center line (a 100-foot overlay total) that is applied when a cut is made in pavement within five years of a resurfacing. Steve Long, public works operations director, said the rule is intended to “make sure that when a roadway is resurfaced or a roadway is newly built, that for the first 5 years is not disturbed, it's not excavated, it's not dug up, except for in an emergency kind of situation.”
Why it matters: Builders and neighborhood stakeholders said the requirement inflates costs for individual home buyers when small utility taps or emergency repairs trigger a large mill-and-overlay. Developers said the rule is especially burdensome…
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