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Public Works maps a five‑year, zone‑based street program to spread neighborhood impact
Summary
Staff presented a five‑year local street plan that divides the city into five zones and cycles roughly $6M/year of local work to avoid overconcentrating construction in any one neighborhood; commissioners asked staff to review specific streets and potential grants.
Johnson outlined a zone-based maintenance plan that would use the $6M local allocation in the 0.5% sales-tax scenario to fund rotating work across five zones at approximately $1.25M per zone each year.
He said that approach reduces overlap, avoids flooding a single neighborhood with construction, and helps contractors plan staffing and equipment. "We divide it by 5 zones, and every year we do 1,000,000.25 in each one of those zones," Johnson said, describing the intent to keep work spread out and predictable.
Commissioners asked about specific streets (Juliet, Miller Ranch, 16th, 17th, Fairchild) and about historic-brick treatments; Johnson noted KDOT grants can fund brick work at high cost-share (e.g., Juliet estimated at 90% KDOT participation). Staff will refine the project list and check grant eligibility for marginal streets.
