Asphalt Paving in Jeffersonville, IN

What does Jeffersonville's code say about paved surfaces?

The rules sit in the city's Unified Development Ordinance. For homes, driveways and parking areas need a durable paved surface that keeps the dust down. The code names concrete, or asphalt over a compacted stone base.

Older gravel drives get an exception. A home built before September 1, 2004 may keep its gravel drive. So may a home built under county rules and later annexed. Either way, the gravel may not be expanded, and cars may not park on the grass.

Commercial lots get their own rule. Lots for businesses, offices, organizations and places of assembly must be paved, drives in and out included. An existing gravel lot may not be expanded, and parking areas have to be built to drain.

New and wider driveways take a permit. The code requires an Improvement Location Permit to build, change, widen or remove a home's driveway. New curb cuts need one too. The Planning and Zoning Department has 12 days to decide, and we point you there first.

Older driveways near downtown and the river

The Census Bureau's 2020 to 2024 survey shows nearly half of Jeffersonville's housing built before 1980. About 1 in 12 homes went up before 1940. The local historic district follows Riverside Drive and Spring Street, and nearby Rose Hill holds a number of historic homes.

Winter is hard on worn asphalt here. NOAA's normals for the airport station across the river count about 74 nights a year at 32 degrees or colder. Only about 13 days a year stay at or below freezing all day. So water under a cracked surface freezes and thaws again and again.

When the base is still sound, asphalt resurfacing lays a new layer over the old one. Where an overlay would sit too high at the garage or curb, asphalt milling takes the old surface down first. Soft spots or alligator cracking point to a failed base, and that calls for a rebuild.

The approach is the piece of driveway at the street. The city's Street Department pays half the cost of a new concrete approach, while funds last. Concrete is another trade's work, and we pave the asphalt drive behind it.

Jeffersonville's new subdivisions and the ground under them

Jeffersonville, the Clark County seat, keeps growing. The Census Bureau estimated 54,134 residents in July 2025, up from 49,447 in the 2020 count. In 2025 the city approved 235 new single-family homes and seven subdivisions with 784 lots. The largest, on Charlestown Pike, plans 603 homes.

The ground under those lots varies. NRCS soil maps show about 4 in 10 acres of the city as urban land or cut and filled ground. Where natural soil remains, Crider silt loam is the most common, and some areas are mapped as karst with sinkholes.

NRCS rates about 60 percent of the city's mapped soil as very limited for local roads and streets. Low strength and frost action top the reasons it lists. So we grade and compact the base before the hot-mix asphalt goes down.

Parking lots along Veterans Parkway and 10th Street

Veterans Parkway has become a main gateway into the city, and several businesses opened their doors there in 2025. On 10th Street, a new overlay district between Spring Street and Main Street aims to ease redevelopment.

The city's code sets each parking space at 9 by 18 feet or larger and wants every space striped. Jeffersonville also bills drainage fees on non-residential property by impervious area, the hard surface water cannot soak into. It counts that area in 2,500 square foot units, and asphalt counts.

A NOAA station in Jeffersonville averages about 51 inches of precipitation a year, wettest from April to June. The Jeffersonville Drainage Board approves drainage plans for new development and redevelopment. A site that disturbs an acre or more also needs coverage under the state's construction stormwater permit. FEMA maps flood zones along creeks such as Lancassange Creek and Mill Creek.

We pave new lots and repave worn ones, with milling first where the grade calls for it. Drainage grading and striping are part of our parking lot job. For a lot or a drive in good shape, we also offer sealcoating.