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Council reviews pavement strategies, staff recommends keeping current overlay practice and monitoring bond-funded repairs
Summary
Richardson staff briefed the council on pavement management options and costs, recommending against broad application of asphalt overlays on 'good' or 'poor' concrete streets now, and advising the council to assess results of the 2026 bond program and peer-city pilots before expanding thin-bonded overlays.
Richardson — Assistant City Manager Charles Gough and Assistant Director Katie Baron briefed the City Council on pavement-management strategies, presenting the city's Pavement Condition Index (PCI) framework, funding picture and options for asphalt overlays and concrete panel replacement.
Gough told the council the city's network includes a large length of streets (as stated in the presentation) and that pavement types include primarily concrete, concrete with asphalt overlay (about 12% of the network), and a small amount of full-depth asphalt. He explained the PCI scoring range (100 to 0) and said the 2020 snapshot used in prior planning showed roughly one-third of streets in the "good" category, most in "fair," and a small…
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