The lifespan of projects built during city's growth spurt in 1950s, '60s is ending
San Diego’s severe shortage of funding for crucial infrastructure projects continues to grow as many projects built during a city growth spurt in the 1950s and 1960s reach the end of their expected lifespans.
The increase is partly because of new state mandates, surging materials costs during the pandemic and the city paying greater attention to its infrastructure backlog by comprehensively assessing all its assets in recent years.But James Nagelvoort, the city’s public works director, said the main driver of the increase is the age of so many bridges, roads, sewer mains, storm drains and other city infrastructure projects built after World War II.
Consultant: San Diego should spend $213M on park repairs and upgrades; 28 parks are in poor conditionSan Diego is the only city in the region that has assessed all its infrastructure in the last few years, and the only city to estimate its infrastructure funding gap every winter — a practice that began seven years ago.
“Construction costs are continually on the rise and design costs are continually on the rise,” he said. “When COVID hit, the supply issue became very difficult.” In addition to creating special city subcommittees to analyze the Biden bill and how future city projects would fit with it, Mayor Todd Gloria has created an external working group with other regional agencies to coordinate local efforts.City officials prepping strategy to apply for competitive grants included in $1.2T new law
The federal money also comes with a downside. Nagelvoort said the sharp increase in infrastructure projects by all government agencies is expected to increase demand and competition for contractors and materials, pushing costs up even higher.
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