City staffers will install a substantial but temporary resurfacing on a portion of Anderson Mill Road during September. Additional improvements to the road could begin in 2016.[/caption]

Drivers often call the city of Cedar Park to report issues on Anderson Mill Road, but Assistant City Manager Sam Roberts said the city plans temporary repairs to Anderson Mill.

“It’s a 40-year-old county road and it’s had it,” Roberts said at a July 9 Cedar Park City Council meeting. “[The road is] failing in the worst of ways, and it’s basically gotten to where it’s actually unsafe.”

The city has previously laid new asphalt atop Anderson Mill, but traffic quickly removes the asphalt, he said.

In September the city will instead dig deeper into the surface and add a thicker overlay. The repair will resurface Anderson Mill between Whitestone Boulevard and Lime Creek Road.

For the project the city budgeted about $350,000, an amount drawn from the city’s current bond funds. On Aug. 13 city staffers presented a recommended contractor bid for $339,590.25, which City Council approved.

“We really need to do it sooner rather than later,” Roberts said July 9.

Roberts said the temporary repaving project should begin before the wetter winter months and should last until the city completes new Anderson Mill construction. The city is also planning to replace and widen that section of Anderson Mill. The project is being designed and will also use funds from the city’s previous bonds. Roberts said work may take one to two years.

A second phase of construction would replace and widen a southern portion of Anderson Mill, between Zeppelin Drive and Cypress Creek Road. That phase is included on a list of transportation projects that could receive funding from a November bond election. The second phase could cost $8.7 million and could begin after new bonds are potentially issued in 2016.

Roberts said the September resurfacing would not last long under the pressure of traffic.

“That’s why we call it temporary,” he said. “But the new road will be designed for truck traffic.”