Shelby County approves $1.03 million resurfacing project for County Road 17 near Sterrett

Shelby County has approved a transportation plan that includes a $1,034,985 estimated resurfacing project for 2.97 miles of County Road 17 near Sterrett. Project SCP 59-986-26 covers the route between County Road 26 and Hillsboro Parkway.

The Shelby County Commission approved the county’s 2026 transportation plan on Aug. 25, 2025. The County Road 17 work is listed for the FY2026 project year and is identified as funded with County Rebuild Alabama funds.

What is included

The project calls for resurfacing the identified section of County Road 17, a county route serving the Sterrett area. Sterrett is an unincorporated Shelby County community along the corridor, so the project is a county transportation project rather than a city of Sterrett project.

The planned corridor is used by residents and commuters, as well as school-bus operators and emergency responders. Resurfacing is intended to address the road surface, but the approved plan does not quantify the current pavement condition or provide an engineering estimate of expected traffic delays.

The $1,034,985 figure is an estimated total project cost, not a reported final construction cost. The approved plan identifies the project, its route, length, project year and funding source; it does not establish that construction has begun.

No construction schedule has been published

The available transportation plan does not provide a bid-award date, construction start date or completion date. It also does not include a lane-closure plan or traffic-control schedule.

That leaves residents, school transportation operators, emergency services and other County Road 17 users without a confirmed timetable for when work may begin or how travel could be managed during construction. The documents reviewed also do not specify the project’s exact limits within the Sterrett area beyond the listed County Road 26-to-Hillsboro Parkway segment.

County role

The Shelby County Highway Department oversees county-road functions, including county-road maintenance and permitting related to utility installations in county rights of way. The department also provides the county’s process for reporting road concerns.

For now, the confirmed action is the County Commission’s approval of the FY2026 transportation plan. The next details needed by people who rely on County Road 17 are the project’s bidding and construction timetable, along with any traffic-control information issued before work begins.