Sonoma Valley Adopts OnePave Program For Better Roads And Fire Damage Repairs

From the Sonoma County Government:

The county has adopted a OnePave Program (“OnePave”) intended to provide better-quality, longer lasting roads and facilitate rebuilding efforts specific to the fire damaged areas of Larkfield-Wikiup, identified in the OnePave Map (PDF), where a high concentration of utility and other infrastructure work for individual rebuilding projects is anticipated to result in extensive trenching in the area’s roadways. As a whole, this activity would result in a patchwork of piecemeal trench paving, resulting in degraded, poor-quality road surface and reduced pavement longevity.

Accordingly, the County adopted OnePave where, in exchange for waiving existing re-pavement requirements (“Standard 219”) and allowing compliance with an alternative, cheaper standard for temporary patching (“OnePave Standard” (PDF), permittees subject to OnePave would pay the County a portion of the savings they would incur. The amounts collected would be designated for a County-initiated, final, one-time pavement once most trenching activity is complete.

This press release was produced by the Sonoma County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.