Aurora is looking at resurfacing almost 22 lane miles of road on the city’s East Side at a cost of around $4.4 million.
The proposal, set to go before the Aurora City Council next week, is the first of two major resurfacing projects expected to be brought forward this year. In total, the two projects are expected to resurface 44 miles of city streets, according to a staff report.
A proposed contract with Schroeder Asphalt Services, Inc., which submitted the lowest-cost bid for the project, was unanimously recommended for approval by the Aurora City Council’s Infrastructure and Technology Committee at a meeting on April 13.
Tim Weidner, a city engineering coordinator, told the committee that this project would resurface roads within the 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th wards.
Schroeder Asphalt has done other projects of this scale in other communities, and it has previously done Aurora’s road patching program, he said. The company’s bid for this project was around $166,000 less than the next lowest bidder, according to documents included online with the staff report.
A local company did apply for the contract, Weidner said, but its bid was not low enough to trigger the city’s local preference regulations.
The project known as “2026 Citywide Street Resurfacing – EAST” is planned to resurface just over 50 roads, either in part or in whole.
Those roads include: Dunnhill Lane, Ione Lane, Ione Court, Royal Lane, Congrove Drive, Vaughn Circle, Jamestown Lane, Cove Court, Edinburgh Lane, Edinburgh Court, White Eagle Drive, Lynnfield Court, Camden Lane, Dover Lane, Carriage Way, Carriage Court, South Oakhurst Drive, Royal Troon Drive, Tahoe Court, Bayhill Court, La Jolla Court, La Costa Court, Whitethorn Drive, Red Bard Court, Red Bard Road, Bayfield Drive, Seaview Drive, Squaw Valley Trail, Spring Valley Court, Warwick Court, Holland Court, Needham Court, Rockland Drive, Bridgeport Lane, Cambria Court, Cushing Lane, Red Hawk Ridge Court, Shadow Hills Lane, Vicksburg Lane, Belvedere Lane, Metropolitan Street, Conservatory Lane, O’Brien Drive, Stratford Court, Essex Court, Regency Court, Normandy Court, Echo Lane, Drexel Avenue, Lewisburg Lane, Central Park Lane, Long Grove Drive and Station Boulevard.
Construction is expected to begin in May and be completed by September, according to the staff report. Each individual street is expected to see construction for around eight to 10 weeks, with some impact to local traffic, city staff wrote in the report.
The project is expected to be paid for primarily through neighborhood improvement capital funds, with smaller amounts coming from the city’s motor fuel tax fund and its sewer fund, the staff report shows.
Earlier this week, the proposal was heard by the Aurora City Council’s Committee of the Whole, which sets the agenda for the next City Council meeting. That committee placed the proposed project on the consent agenda of next week’s City Council meeting.
Because the consent agenda is typically reserved for routine or non-controversial items that are all approved with a single vote and typically without discussion, the proposal is likely to pass.
In total, Aurora maintains around 1,300 lane miles of streets, staff said in the report. Those roads have a surface life expectancy of around 20 to 25 years.
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