Nearly a quarter of the roads in Nashville will be repaved this year after the town was awarded more than $200,000 from the state’s Community Crossings grant program.

The town roads to be paved include sections of Artist Drive, Franklin Street, Hillside Drive, Jefferson Street, Mound Street, Redbud Drive, Snyder Road, Washington Street, Wells Drive and Locust Lane; and four roads in the Pine Tree Hills subdivision: Pine Hills Drive, Pine Brook Trail, Pine Lake Circle and Pine Water Court.

The total distance to be paved is 2.664 miles. The town is responsible for 11.261 miles of road in total.

The state awarded $200,745 in Community Crossings funding to Nashville for these projects on April 29. The town will need to kick in an additional $66,915 as the local match, which will be coming from the motor vehicle highway, local road and street, and cumulative capital development funds, said Dax Norton, strategic direction adviser for the town.

The contract has not been let yet and a company has not been chosen to do the work, so the timing of when it will get done isn’t solid. Norton thinks it could get under way as early as July or August depending on the contractor’s schedule. He said he’d avoid scheduling it in October, town’s busiest season for tourists.

All the roads chosen for work had scored between a 4 and a 6 on the town’s PSER list. PSER stands for pavement surface evaluation and rating. A score of 1 is the worst condition and a 10 is the best. “A 1 or 2, you never want to get to. So if it’s 1-2, you’re replacing your road completely all the way down to the base,” Norton said. “You always want to catch these things in a 3-5 range.”

It had been “quite some time” since many of the roads on this year’s list had been worked on, he said.

Artist Drive is the most expensive project on the list. Its condition was rated at a 4. It’s estimated that it’ll cost $79,910 to do “minor patching and wedging” and a 1.5-inch overlay of the surface all the way from Main Street to its junction with State Road 135 North.

Brown County did not apply for Community Crossings road funding this round. Brown County Highway Superintendent Mike Magner said he plans to apply in the second round this year, as there is still work to be done with the funding received last year.

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All of Artist Drive — 1.5-inch pavement overlay with minor patching and wedging

Franklin Street from west end to Jefferson Street — 475mm pavement overlay

Franklin Street from Old School Way to east end — 475mm pavement overlay

Hillside Drive from West Lake Drive to end — 475mm pavement overlay

Jefferson Street from Washington Street to south end — 475mm pavement overlay

Mound Street from Locust Lane to Jefferson Street — 475mm pavement overlay

Locust Lane from East Main Street to Mound Street — 475mm pavement overlay

All of Redbud Drive — 475mm pavement overlay

Snyder Road from Old 46 to Coffey Hill Road — 1.5-inch pavement overlay

Washington Street from 259 W. Washington to Johnson Street, from Johnson Street to Van Buren Street, and from Van Buren Street to Schoolhouse Lane — 475mm pavement overlay

All of Wells Drive — 475mm pavement overlay

All of Pine Hills Drive, Pine Brook Trail, Pine Lake Circle and Pine Water Court — 1.5-inch pavement overlay

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