October 27, 2010
By Guy Kovner
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors candidate David Rabbitt said Tuesday he would have voted against a plan to limit pavement preservation to a select list of 31 county roads.
"I would not want to throw in the towel," Rabbitt said, noting that the maintenance plan approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors covers only 11 percent of the county road system.
More than 1,200 miles of roads would be left to fail in the next 10 years, officials said.
"I can't see us reverting back to gravel roads," said Rabbitt, a Petaluma city councilman.
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