Pima County Road Resurfacing Selection Process
Update August 2023
The road committee recieved a response from Rex Scott’s office. Our neighborhood does not meet the criteria to be resurfaced this year. Please read the letter here.
If you have any questions or complaints about our roads I encourage you to contact Rex Scott’s office 520-724-2738
Please go to Pima County PCI map to see the PCI for your street.
Fiscal 2022 Pima County fixed streets up to a PCI index of 36. The streets were reindexed in December 2022 and our roads will not be resurfaced this year. Cami from Rex Scott sent an explanation that you can read
Pima County Pavement Selection Process Fiscal 2022
SELECTION PROCESS
Road Selection Process
This page outlines the process used for selecting roadways for repair for Fiscal Year 2022.
Arterial & Collector Roads
The Pima County Transportation Advisory Committee (PCTAC) in concert with Pima County staff decided that it was in the best interest of preserving the arterial and collector network to allocate resources based on modeling maximum return on investment. A full discussion on this topic, including budget allocations, is available on the Pima County Transportation Advisory Committee (PCTAC) page.
Local Roads
In 2019 the PCTAC conducted a public survey regarding how to allocate resources for local roads. The overwhelming response was to repair the worst roads first. As such, the PCTAC adopted the following process for selecting local roads for the Fiscal Year 2022:
The ranking was determined by sorting the list of 1,300 miles of local road segments from worst to best by Pavement Condition Index (PCI) view the Pavement Index page.
Roads of the same PCI were additionally ranked by:
Presence of school crosswalks
Lack of sidewalks
Lot density
Roads in a subdivision will typically have different PCI ratings and because it is not practicable or cost-effective to repair one road in a subdivision and then move to another subdivision or local road, the PCTAC provided the following criteria for developing bid packages that would maximize work with the available repair budget:
Select worst ranked road segment from the list, then select all road segments in the same subdivision or contiguous to that road in failed or poor status (PCI 60 or less)
Once all qualifying road segments have been selected, select the next worst road on the ranked list
When the remaining budget is too small to select the next qualifying worst road on the ranked list and associated subdivision/contiguous segments, skip that worst road and select the next worse road on the list
Pavement Condition Index
The Pavement Condition Index (PCI) is determined by an objective analysis that uses ASTM D6433-18 Standard Practice for Roads and Parking Lots Pavement Condition Index Surveys. PCI ranges from 0 to 100 with the latter representing new pavement.
Condition Categories
Very good: 76 to 100
Good: 61 to 75
Poor: 41 to 60
Failed: 0 to 40
Speed Humps and Road Maintenance
As many of our members know, the Board has been strongly interested in improving the surface condition of our roads, as well as the possible installation of speed humps to reduce traffic speed. These two concerns have been ongoing since at least 2017. This information piece will hopefully bring readers up to date.
Road maintenance History:
In all the time our HOA has existed, our streets have been fully repaved only once and given only one chip seal coating; which was accomplished in the ‘80’s. This a fully unacceptable record from the Board’s point of view. Somewhat worse is that, while spot repairs shall be made, our streets require repaving now but are without any plan to repave them during the fiscal year 2023. This is not the information the Board expected to learn, especially since streets north of Chula Vista and between 1st Avenue and west Chula Vista saw full repaving in 2020.
There is a history to this and to the method the County used to decide which streets and roads were repaved. County Road Maintenance saw inconsistent funding and an erratic method of deciding which roads to repave until 2019. In that year over 1,300 miles of Pima County roads required maintenance. County population increase and consequential urban growth the since the ‘80’s and the size of Pima County also had impact. Added to this were some years of bickering, at the County Board of Supervisors, over District 1 allocated road maintenance funds.
Why is 2019 of any importance? Public influence.
2019 was the year that the Pima County Transportation Advisory Committee (PCTAC) conducted a public survey regarding how to allocate resources for local roads: The overwhelming public response was to repair the worst roads first and develop a systematic, equitable approach to maintenance.
With that input, the PCTAC adopted the following process for selecting local road repairs for Fiscal Year 2021:
Ranking was determined by sorting the 1300 miles of road segments, from worst to best, using a Pavement Condition Index (PCI), from 0 to 100.
0 = worst condition
100 = best condition
Roads with the same PCI index number were additionally ranked by
Presence of School Crosswalks
Lack of sidewalks
Lot density
Additionally, subdivisions often have roads of different PCI ratings so it is often impractical to move from one subdivision to the next to repair similarly rated roads, only to return multiple times. PCTAC uses the following criteria to develop a list of road within subdivisions that maximizes work with the available repair budget:
Select the worst-ranked road segment from the list to be the “trigger road”, then select all road segments in the same subdivision or contiguous to the trigger road
Once all qualifying road segments have been selected, select the next worst road on the ranking list
When the remaining budget is too small to repair the next worst road on the ranking list within the subdivision, that road is skipped and the another “next worst” road is selected
What can the Santa Catalina Estates Property Owner‘s Association do to influence a positive outcome to this issue?
First, identify the problems found during walks and driving through the neighborhood. Then, contact Pima County:
Call Pima County at (520) 724-6410 to report what you find
Install and use the mobile app “SeeClickFix”
Launch the online portal
Contact Pima County Sheriff’s Road Condition Hotline, at (520) 547-7510
We can also keep the subject top of mind with our County Supervisor, Mr. Rex Scott. The best way to do so is to contact Cami Evans at:
Cami Evans
Office of Supervisor Rex Scott, District 1
Pima County Board of Supervisors
(520) 724-2738
Pima County’s plan, at this time, is to repair all currently failed and poor roads to achieve an average network PCI of 80, by the year 2030. For a full accounting and explanation of how streets and roads are selected for repair/repaving, please visit the Pima County Transportation Advisory Committee website