It is my belief that somewhere in a Roadway Engineering Manual their are designs and sections for durable gravel roads. When I asked about improving gravel roads years ago, I was told by a city engineer that there were NO city standards for gravel roadway and hence there could only improvement to the full blown asphalt/sidewalk/etc. etc. right-of-way improvement. My question is why doesn't the city have a gravel roadway standard? As mentioned in later replies in this thread, the village is the village because of the local environment, and some people, sometimes entire streets, want it to stay that way. ]

Commissioner Sam, could not the city transportation staff find a gravel roadway standard or family of gravel roadway standards and allow citizens to get a permit to fill in ruts and pot holes in their gravel street if they used "approved specification gravel"?

This doesn't have to be an ALL or NOTHING proposition
does it?

And I won't even revive my discussion of several months ago about how the city hauls gravel around day-in and day-out for its own projects.