Road Resurfacing Plan, Port St. Lucie

Port St. Lucie resurfaces the streets with the lowest Pavement Condition Index scores first, breaks ties by traffic volume, and groups nearby streets so whole neighborhoods are paved together where possible.

The Public Works Roadway Preservation and Resurfacing Plan page says the city maintains more than 925 miles of roads and, because funding is limited, uses a data-driven process to decide which roads are resurfaced each year. Road condition comes first. If two Port St. Lucie roads have the same score but one carries more traffic, the busier road takes priority. Paving by neighborhood, the page explains, lowers costs, reduces traffic impacts and gives a neighborhood a consistent look.

A Port St. Lucie street whose base is the problem may leave the resurfacing list altogether. The same page says that when the base layer under the pavement is determined to be compromised or failing, the street may be considered for full rehabilitation through the Capital Improvement Program instead. The resurfacing page links to the city's PSLinProgress site, and the Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page links a Capital Improvement Projects tracker map. In the capital budget, the FY 2023-24 budget book lists Port St. Lucie Blvd South Improvements Segments 1 and 2.2 at $24.9 million in its five-year capital program, as a line apart from street resurfacing.

The Pavement Condition Index (PCI) is a 0 to 100 score Port St. Lucie gives every street from laser scans by a contracted vendor, refreshed every 3 to 4 years.

Instead of relying only on visual inspections, the city contracts with an outside vendor that drives a Laser Road Surface Tester (LRST) over every street, according to the resurfacing plan page. The resulting PCI scores feed a Pavement Condition Index Interactive Map that residents can open from the same page to see how a Port St. Lucie street was rated. The page also warns that higher commodity and labor costs reduce the miles treated per dollar, which can lower the citywide PCI over time if funding stays flat.

Port St. Lucie's progress update dated June 22, 2026 reported 40.8 of a planned 42.5 miles resurfaced for that year's program.

The update on the Roadway Preservation and Resurfacing Plan page breaks the completed Port St. Lucie work down as 15.55 miles funded by the Capital Improvement Program and 23.55 miles funded by the sales tax. The same June 22, 2026 status lists neighborhood groups whose paving was advanced thanks to the Half-Cent Sales Tax:

To find a specific street, the plan page offers the ten-year plan with a streets list as a PDF, a downloadable map and an interactive map. The city says it updates the plan each year to reflect changes in funding, road conditions and material costs, so the fiscal year shown beside a Port St. Lucie neighborhood is a proposed schedule rather than a fixed promise.

Port St. Lucie pays for resurfacing from the city resurfacing budget and from the county's voter-approved half-cent sales tax of 2018.

The resurfacing plan FAQ says the sales tax has significantly increased the number of miles the city can pave each year. On the Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page, repaving is a $27.5 million line, split into a citywide program of $26.25 million marked in progress and a Gatlin Boulevard item of $1.25 million marked not started. The same page keeps a map and list of additional and expedited repaving projects for FY 19/20 and FY 20/21.

The city's FY 2023-24 Adopted Budget Book lists, within a five-year capital program, street resurfacing of $20.9 million in the Road and Bridge Fund and road repaving of 19.7 million in the Half-Cent Sales Tax Fund. The budget says the Road and Bridge Capital Improvement Fund accounts for major road and culvert work, including the annual street resurfacing program, and that the Road and Bridge fund's largest revenue is the Local Option Gasoline Tax.

Florida law sets rules for both kinds of local revenue in the Port St. Lucie road budget. Section 336.025, Florida Statutes, says that for the second local option fuel tax, reconstruction or resurfacing of existing paved roads is deemed to increase capacity, while routine maintenance does not count (s. 336.025). Section 212.055 lets a county levy a local government infrastructure surtax of 0.5 percent or 1 percent with voter approval in a referendum (s. 212.055).

Most Port St. Lucie residential streets sit on a soil-cement base, and cracks in that base show through new asphalt as reflection or block cracking, which the city calls normal and harmless.

The Port St. Lucie resurfacing plan page says this kind of cracking can appear even a short time after resurfacing, does not mean the road is failing and does not require repair. The page sets it apart from other distress types that do signal wear:

The city describes reflection and block cracking as the lines or patterns often seen on neighborhood streets, and fatigue cracking as more common on busier roads than on neighborhood streets. A concern about one street can be raised with 1PSL, 772-871-1775, which appears on each Public Works page.

In Port St. Lucie, resurfacing replaces the asphalt surface at middle-range cost, while preservation treatments such as rejuvenation extend pavement life at lower cost when applied at the right time.

Port St. Lucie sets aside a portion of the resurfacing budget for preservation treatments each year, according to the Roadway Preservation and Resurfacing Plan page, because they slow deterioration and help keep PCI scores stable citywide. The Half-Cent Sales Tax Projects page makes the same case in its repaving section: pavement deteriorates at a rate set by environment, traffic volumes, loading, original construction quality and interim work such as crack-sealing and rejuvenation, and timely maintenance can extend pavement life and reduce costly replacement later. Last verified: October 22, 2026, when the city resurfacing plan with its June 22, 2026 status and PCI scale, the half-cent project list, the FY 2023-24 budget pages on Road and Bridge funding, and sections 212.055 and 336.025 of the Florida Statutes were all read again.