Engineering

2024 Sales Tax Projects - Current Updates

The 2024 Sales Tax Street Project will involve one of the following on each street (see list of streets here):

• Reclamation and paving – (1) Milling 2-3 inches of bituminous off street. (2) Reclaim the street which involves grinding up remaining pavement and 2-3 inches of subgrade (gravel) and then, (3) paving 3-4 inches of new pavement.
• Mill and overlay – Milling 1.5-2 inches of paving off street and paving a new 1.5-2 inches layer of paving.

In addition to the street work, there will be some stormwater infrastructure repairs as well as ADA upgrades where possible, mostly at pedestrian ramps at intersections. Some residential and business driveways will require concrete work. Notice will be given to individual residents when access will be limited, usually about a week, by the contractor. The project should not affect mail delivery or garbage pickup schedules. It is advisable to put your house number on your garbage cans in case they get moved so we can get them back to you. Streets will be temporarily posted “No Parking” on multiple occasions during the project. Signs will be removed when you can park and reposted when necessary, such as for milling and then again for paving.
The City of Duluth’s Streets Sales tax will fund these projects and there will be no assessments for the projects to property owners.

Common questions and answers:

• Will garbage still be picked up?
  • Yes, garbage pickup will still occur.
• Can I still access my driveway?
  • Most of the time, yes.  The only time this will be affected is if there needs to be driveway concrete work performed.  If there needs to be driveway concrete replacement, we will knock on doors and notify property owners. 

If you would like more information about when your street is scheduled for improvement, please keep visiting this website for more weekly status updates.

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Current status updates:

Week of October 14th, 2024 (and onward):

Fond-Du-Lac

These streets are paved.  Mr. Manholes and punch list items remain.  

• Water Street
• 131^st Ave

Norton Park

Milling is completed.  Remaining concrete work will be finished end of week of 10/14.  Paving scheduled for week of 10/21.

• 80^th Ave West
• 81^st Ave West
• 84^th Ave West

Bayview Heights

Concrete work on catch basins scheduled for end of week of 10/14.  Paving scheduled for week of 10/21.  All pipework is completed.

• Brook Street
• Lawn Street
• Meadow Street
• Vinland Street Alley
• Midway Avenue

Fairmount

Site restoration and paving repair scheduled for week of 10/21.

• Main Street

Spirit Valley

These Streets are complete other than Punchlist items.

• 56^th Ave West
• 57^th Ave West
• Spirit Drive

Denfeld

These Streets are complete other than manhole treatments in street and Punchlist items.

• 38^th Ave West
• 39^th Ave West
• 41^st Ave East
• W 4^th Street
• W 5^th Street

Lincoln Park

These streets have been removed from project for this year. Lead service replacement will happen and then these streets will be added to 2025 or 2026 Street Preservation. Letters will be sent to property owners:

• W 11^th Street
• W 12^th Street
• W 13^th Street
• 22^nd Ave West

Duluth Heights

These streets are complete other than manhole treatments in street and punch list items:

• Como Ave
• E Gilead Ave
• E Locust Street
• Myrtle Street

Reclaim work completed, final grading and paving scheduled for week of 10/21.

• Myrtle Place

Central Hillside

These streets are complete other than manhole treatments in street and punch list items:

• N Lake Ave
• W 5^th Street from Skylie
• W 6^th Street

East Hillside

Final punch list items remain on these streets.

• 8^th Ave East
• 11^th Ave East
• 14^th Ave East
• Belmont road
• Parkland Ave
• Chester Parkway
• E 7^th Street
• East 10^th Street
• Eden Lane

Site restoration and punchlist items remain.

• E 7^th Street (from 13^th to 14^th)

Endion

Paving completed.  Final concrete work scheduled for week of 10/14.

• 16^th Ave East
• 17^th Ave East
• E 5^th Street
• E 6^th Street
• E 7^th Street

Chester Park

All work completed other than final punch list.

• E 9^th Street

• Garden Street

Hunters Park

Concrete completed.  Milling completed. Paving scheduled for week of 10/14.

• Vermillion Road
• Woodhaven Lane
• Hartley Road

Congdon Park

Concrete work completed.  Paving scheduled for week of 10/14.

• Crescent View Ave
• Rustwood Lane (storm work week of August 26^th)
• Old Howard Mill Road

Lakeside-Lester Park

Concrete work will wrap up week of 10/14.  Milling completed.  Paving scheduled for week of 10/14.

• 51^st Ave East
• 52^nd Ave East
• Crosley Ave. (storm work starting week of August 26^th)
• Idlewild Street
• Covent Place
• Kingston Street
• Norwood Street
• Oneida Street

This is the plan at this point, weather permitting. As the work progresses, the starting dates may change and will be updated on this website.

When milling and paving of the street occurs the streets will be reposted for each of those operations again.

We will try to maintain access unless we are pouring your driveway, at which point we will knock on your door and work with you as we will need about a week for concrete work.