Sonoma County announces 2024 paving and construction season, encourages road users to plan ahead, follow detours and go slow

SANTA ROSA, CA | April 25, 2024

The Sonoma County Department of Public Infrastructure today announced the Summer 2024 road resurfacing program will soon get underway with pavement treatment on nearly 30 miles of road segments across 45 separate county-maintained roads. Residents who live near project sites will be notified by county contractors in advance of the start of work. All impacted road users are asked to plan ahead, follow signage for detours and slowdown in the vicinity of work crews.

In addition to road paving in 2024, county Public Infrastructure crews are conducting vegetation and hazardous tree removal and roadside mowing countywide; constructing a pedestrian path at Crocker Road Bridge; performing six landslide repairs along Freezeout Road, Stewarts Point – Skaggs Springs Road and Fort Ross Road; replacing a bridge on Geysers Road over Big Sulphur Creek; beginning a seismic retrofit of Wohler Road Bridge over the Russian River; and performing preventive maintenance coating on 24 additional county bridges.

“The 2024 season represents the largest amount of construction projects ever delivered by the County in a single year,” said Supervisor David Rabbitt, chair of the Board of Supervisors. “This investment in local roads is essential to our regional economic vitality as our road system is used by the majority of our population. This monumental investment is a visible reminder that county government has prioritized this work and remains committed to improving our county road network.”

The cost of all paving and construction projects in 2024 totals $67 million and is funded by a combination of County General Funds from the Board of Supervisors, PG&E Settlement funds, Federal Highway Bridge Program funds, Sonoma County Transportation Authority funds and disaster reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The Board of Supervisors proactively contributes more discretionary dollars to road repairs than any other California county. Since 2012, the Board has invested more than $270 million to improve 546 miles of roads totaling 40 percent of the county-maintained network, the largest county-maintained road network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Because state gas tax funding for roads is distributed based on the number of vehicle registrations in a county rather than the number of road miles, rural counties receive disproportionately less road funding. Other funding sources for county road repairs include the Measure L transient occupancy tax and Measure M sales tax.

Segments of the following roads are scheduled for treatment in 2024:

Lowell Avenue
B Street
C Street
Clover Crest Drive
Coffey Lane
Corless Lane
D Street
Donna Drive
Kay Drive
Leslie Road
Loch Haven Drive
Mark West Station Road
McCray Road
Preston Drive
Second Street
Skylane Blvd.
Somers Street
Starr Road
Sutter Road
Village Avenue
Zahner Way
Center Way
Coleman Valley Road
Eagle Nest Lane
La Porte Drive
Marra Road
Memory Lane
Mesa Grande Terrace
Odd Fellows Park Road
Orchard Avenue
River Lane
Rock Point Drive
Stewarts Pt. - Skaggs Springs Road
Willig Drive
Nuns Canyon Road
Bloomfield Road
King Road
Morelli Lane
Lichau Road
Sonoma Mountain Road
Casa Grande Avenue
Corona Road
Fort Ross Road
Santa Rosa Avenue
Petaluma Hill Road

To view a map of county paving projects, please visit:
https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9aca4606b26a4de3a3dd1b16aa59234d

For more information about how roads are selected for paving, please visit:
http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/TPW/Roads/Services/Pavement-Preservation/Project-Selection/.

Sonoma County residents may submit a road project for future consideration by calling (707) 565-2550 or by email to SPI@Sonoma-County.org.

Non-emergency road requests may be submitted and tracked via:
https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/soco-connect.

A current road closures map, including registration to receive alerts, is at: https://roadclosures-sonomacounty.hub.arcgis.com/.

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Media Contact:
Dan Virkstis
publicaffairs@sonoma-county.org
(707) 565-3040

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