Asphalt Paving and Repair in Littleton, CO
Asphalt Denver handles asphalt paving, repair, sealcoating and striping in Littleton. The town filled out fast in the 1950s and 1960s, so much of its commercial parking dates from the same period and is now on its second or third surface. We quote what the pavement needs, not what is easiest to sell.
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Littleton is the Arapahoe County seat and it spreads across three counties, with most of the city in Arapahoe and pieces in Jefferson and Douglas. Richard Little settled here in 1862 and the town incorporated in 1890 with 245 people. It stayed small until aerospace and industry arrived: Martin Marietta, Marathon Oil and Honeywell brought jobs through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and the population followed. Just over 45,000 people lived here at the 2020 census.
That growth left a distinctive commercial building stock. Littleton Boulevard was the way into town from South Broadway, and older houses along it were replaced by modernist commercial buildings designed by locally based architects. Their parking lots went in at the same time. Sixty years and several resurfacings later, they are the jobs where the base, not the surface, decides what the repair costs.
Asphalt work in Littleton
The Main Street historic district runs along West Main between South Curtice and South Sycamore and dates from 1890, so downtown parking is small, tight and shared, with alleys and rear lots that need careful layout when they get restriped. South Broadway and Littleton Boulevard carry the older commercial frontage. Santa Fe Drive, US 85, runs along the west side with the light rail beside it and picks up the heavier industrial and service uses. Belleview Avenue and Bowles Avenue are the main east-west arterials, and C-470 defines the southern edge.
Light rail reached Littleton in 2000 and the stations brought park-and-ride surface lots that see constant turnover with no quiet season. Residential Littleton is a mix: prewar houses near downtown, large tracts of 1950s and 1960s development around them, and newer subdivisions toward the county lines. Older driveways here are frequently narrow and short, built for one car, which makes widening a common request alongside the repair.
The city runs permits and project tracking through an online system, and Littleton regulates public and private uses of its rights of way, so work touching the street side needs a permit from Public Works and Engineering. Its street maintenance division looks after city pavement; your driveway and private lot are yours. Ground conditions follow the rest of the south metro, with clay subgrades that swell and shrink as moisture changes, so the corners of a lot that stay wet are almost always the first sections to break up.
Common jobs around Littleton
- Base repair and resurfacing on 1950s and 1960s commercial lots along Littleton Boulevard and South Broadway
- Downtown alley and rear lot patching, then restriping to fit an awkward footprint
- Driveway replacement and widening on narrow single-car drives near the older streets
- Park-and-ride and shared lot pothole repair where turnover never lets the surface rest
- Sealcoating and crack sealing on newer subdivision driveways toward the county lines
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Asphalt in Littleton: common questions
Can you widen a narrow older driveway rather than just resurface it?
Yes, and it is a common job in the older parts of Littleton where drives were built for one car. Widening means excavating and compacting new base alongside the existing drive, then paving both together so the joint does not become the first crack. Setbacks and drainage need checking before we commit to a width.
Our downtown lot is an odd shape. Can striping fit more cars in?
Often, a little. Stall angle, aisle width and the position of the entry all affect the count, and accessible stalls and access aisles have to meet requirements regardless of layout. We can draw two or three layouts for a rear lot or alley before painting anything so you can see the tradeoffs.
What permits does Littleton require?
Work in the public right of way needs a permit from the city, which handles permitting and project tracking through an online system under Public Works and Engineering. Work entirely inside private property, such as a driveway or an off-street parking lot, is usually outside that process. We confirm the scope with the city before scheduling.
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