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Iowa City moves to adopt statewide SUDAS design manual, adds new stormwater and pavement standards
Summary
City Engineer Jason Havel told council the SUDAS design manual would standardize pavement and stormwater design across jurisdictions; council gave first consideration and will consider final adoption next month after annual update provisions are added.
City Engineer Jason Havel presented a proposal to adopt the Statewide Urban Design and Specifications (SUDAS) design manual as Iowa City’s supplemental design manual, saying the change would modernize the city’s 1996 design standards and improve consistency with nearby municipalities.
Havel said the update includes two principal changes likely to affect local projects: a requirement for a drainable subbase and subdrain under pavements to extend pavement…
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