The Knoxville City Council approved a work order that will begin the process of pavement replacement throughout the city over the next 10 years.

City Manager Harold Stewart says the plan was developed in part due to the results of a community survey. He says city staff have been working with engineers to come up with a capital improvement plan to improve Knoxville’s roads at a cost of $14 to $15 million dollars.

Stewart says these road improvements will go much quicker than the Streetscape project because it will only be surface work.

Plans call for the road improvements to begin in the Spring of 2016.