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City engineer outlines concept to pave roughly 10 miles of Newport gravel roads
Summary
City Engineer Chris Beatty presented a concept plan and preliminary cost estimate to the Newport City Council for paving the city's roughly 10.7 miles of gravel roads, discussed funding options including urban renewal and local improvement districts, and planned near-term paving projects funded in the adopted budget.
Chris Beatty, Newport’s city engineer, presented a conceptual plan to the City Council on Feb. 18 for paving the city's roughly 10.7 miles of gravel streets and asked the council for a consensus to move to implementation planning. “We do have about 10 plus miles of gravel roads here in Newport,” Beatty said.
Beatty provided a preliminary cost framework: an estimated cost of about $10 per square foot (approximately $210 per linear foot for a 20-foot-wide roadway) and noted that, by his estimate, “the $1,100,000 would pave 1 mile of 20 foot wide roadway.” He said the concept assumes 3…
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