Voters Approve Bond to Pay for Street Resurfacing 

In 2021, voters approved a bond by a measure of 708 to 195, which has allowed the city to dramatically increase the amount of money it spends repaving cracked and damaged streets.

For detailed information about the City of Shelby's Street Resurfacing Project, and how resurfacing is determined, see the information below.

The City of Shelby currently owns and maintains approximately 125.5 miles of City streets.  These streets are shown in green on the Powell Bill 2023 Map. This map also shows (in blue) the approximately 80 miles of NCDOT owned and maintained streets/roads within the Shelby city limits. (NOTE: Citizens can report issues with NCDOT owned and maintained streets/roads by clicking here.)

The City of Shelby had a Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP) completed that established a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and upgrading the City’s streets. This plan was completed by a third-party engineering firm that collected and evaluated data for each street in an objective manner.  Ultimately, the TAMP helps guide maintenance of assets through condition ratings, cost estimates and professional solutions to problem areas. Generally, the primary distress types that contribute to the roadway’s rating are alligator cracking, block/transverse cracking, reflective cracking, rutting, raveling, bleeding, and patching. In addition, an overall ride quality component was included in the evaluation criteria for the survey. 

This condition rating that the TAMP establishes is used by City staff to determine which streets are included in annual resurfacing. Streets are also grouped together in order to help reduce mobilization costs, provide better ride quality, utility project continuity, and avoids creating areas of vastly different asphalt age for future resurfacing projects.  The City of Shelby also considers utility and project coordination to help minimize disturbance to citizens and other infrastructure, Improve overall project efficiency, and help preserve the pavement. As all of these factors are accounted for, it may delay resurfacing until utility repairs/extensions, land disturbance, and other development is complete. All these factors are also considered in order to preserve the pavement and maximize the life expectancy of the new asphalt.   

The City of Shelby completed the TAMP Phase I resurfacing project in August 2023  which resurfaced 18.07 miles of City streets. The TAMP Phase I resurfacing list can be viewed by clicking here. Currently a contractor for the City is working on TAMP Phase II resurfacing that includes 15.25 miles of streets that will be resurfaced this year.  The current TAMP Phase II resurfacing list can be viewed by clicking here.