Close to 3 miles of Vineyard Avenue are lined up for repaving in 2027, and the City Council is being asked Oct. 20 to hire the engineers who will draw up the plans.
A consent item on the council's agenda would authorize up to $242,784 for Sanbell-Bay Area to handle civil engineering design and construction support for the city's Annual Street Resurfacing and Reconstruction Project.
The firm already holds an on-call design contract the council approved in June, but this task needs a council vote because its cost is above what the city manager can approve alone, according to the staff report.
Which stretches
The report lists two sections of Vineyard Avenue: 0.71 miles between First Street and Bernal Avenue, and 2.16 miles between Leona Place and Isabel Avenue. Vineyard is part of the city's street resurfacing program for 2027.
The work includes pavement repairs, a new layer of asphalt over the existing road, raising utility covers to the new grade, and fresh striping, pavement markers and traffic signal detector loops. Before any repaving, curbs, ramps and other concrete work along the route must be brought up to current standards for safety and for people with disabilities, the report says.
Sanbell was already hired under an earlier task to design curb extensions and crosswalks at Vineyard Avenue and Adams Way.
According to Sanbell's proposal, a section of Vineyard from east of Machado Place to Piemonte Drive was designed in 2023 but the work was postponed; the city will give the firm those plans, and its crews will recheck the pavement repairs marked at the time.
The proposal also covers repair and crack sealing on other streets ahead of the city's separate slurry seal program, and resurfacing roughly 660,000 square feet of pavement in all.
