Streets in one Bay Area city are deteriorating faster than they can be maintained. As it stands, not much can be done to change it.
), unincorporated communities in Napa County, Sebastopol, Petaluma and – in last place – Pacifica. The quaint, beachside town received a PCI score of 42, and city officials aren't exactly surprised.
"If you go back and look at the history, you'll see that Pacifica has actually been toward the bottom for some time," said Lisa Petersen, Pacifica's public works director. She added that when it comes to street maintenance, the issue of neglected roads almost always boils down to funding."Any kind of city, when you see their pavement quality is dropping, or they're in the lower categories, it's pretty much always related to annual funding," Petersen said.for its Street Maintenance Program, sticking to the same rate the city was investing in its streets during 2019 – $800,000 per year – would drop its PCI score to 38 over a five-year period.
"The more money you put into it, the more you're going to get in terms of these pavement condition indexes," Petersen said. Over the hills, nearby Menlo Park – which is also in San Mateo County, and covers only about 10 more miles of streets than Pacifica does – spent close to $1.7 million on road maintenance from 2020-21, according to a recent
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