Half Moon Bay to Begin $524,000 Street Resurfacing Project

Within the next month, Half Moon Bay will begin a $524,000 street resurfacing project in the Arleta Park and Alsace Lorraine neighborhoods between Central Ave. and Seymour St. west of Highway 1.

According to city engineer Mo Sharma, the area to be resurfaced represents about 20 percent of all city streets.

The target location was chosen because resurfacing the streets in those areas would require a minimum of street excavations — and thus benefit the most from the funding available, according to Sharma.

The project aims to maintain the condition of streets assessed to be in a "fair" condition — or "control future accelerated deterioration," in the words of a report written by Sharma —in order to avoid having to pay more money to repair or construct new streets in the future.

The resurfacing project is expected to be complete by the end of November at the latest, or within 30 days of its start.

On Tuesday night, the Half Moon Bay City Council awarded the project contract in the amount of $524,514.14 to San Carlos-based paving company G. Bortolotto & Company, Inc., as the lowest responsible bidder. Seven companies bid for the job.

Funding for the project comes from a $750,000 pot of money allocated by the council for street resurfacing in fiscal year 2011-2012.

The council considers street maintenance and preventive repair to be a high priority. In January 2011, a financed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that the city's overall street pavement condition has declined in quality from where it was just a few years ago in 2007.

Although the report found that the city's overall score in 2010 for its pavement condition fell into the "fair" range, over 40 percent of its streets were deemed to be in "poor" or "very poor" condition. 

Thirty-nine percent of the streets were in "good" condition, and about 18 percent were in "fair" condition.

Based on these results, Half Moon Bay's overall (on a scale of 100) is "on the lower end" of pavement quality in cities across the county, Sharma said Tuesday night,  using the range between the county's lowest score of 53 (East Palo Alto) and its top score of 81 (Foster City) as benchmarks.

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