CONCRETE & ASPHALT
IN KANSAS CITY, MO.
Max Paving provides full-service concrete and asphalt work across Kansas City, MO and the surrounding Kansas City metro. Free proposals, in-house crews, family owned since 2014.
Concrete & Asphalt Services
For Kansas City Properties
Whether you're a homeowner needing a new driveway, a property manager handling a parking lot, or a GC coordinating a commercial build, Max Paving KC handles every phase in-house, from excavation through finished surface.
Commercial & Residential Concrete
Driveways, parking lots, sidewalks, curbs, repair & replacement.
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Parking lots, driveways, overlays, milling, patching, repairs.
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Grading, subgrade prep, drainage, catch basins, water management.
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KC Metro Standards.
In Kansas City, Missouri, the property line decides a lot about how a concrete job gets handled. The city's code questions page treats the drive approach in the public right-of-way as the only part of a driveway that needs a permit and inspection, while the driveway and parking behind it still have to meet the Zoning and Development Code. We sort out which slab is whose before we price the work, since that can change both the paperwork and the order we pour in. From our yard in Grain Valley it is about a half hour to City Hall downtown or to Front Street along the river, and closer to an hour up to the airport in the Northland. Both of our estimators, Wendell and Daniel, look over a Kansas City job before the free written proposal goes out.
About one housing unit in five in Kansas City dates to 1939 or earlier, and close to four in ten were built before 1960, according to Census estimates for 2020 through 2024. Nobody should guess at what is under a slab on a lot that old, so we check the base before we price a replacement. Public Works says that after voters approved the GO KC bond program in April 2017, the city stopped assessing homeowners for spot sidewalk repairs and began relying on its own inspection cycle to find the work. The city's remove-and-replace permit still lets an owner hire out a section of walk or curb, or the drive approach, without waiting for that cycle, and on any job like that we confirm the current requirements with the city.
Kansas City covers more than 314 square miles of land, and the ground under it is far from uniform on the USDA soil survey. Around City Hall it is mapped simply as urban land on 5 to 9 percent slopes, while along the Front Street project the survey shows urban land over river alluvium in a unit labeled rarely flooded, with spoil or earthy fill listed a little farther east near 6900 E Front St. In Blue Hills and at the other points we checked south of there, the map shows Sibley soil mixed with urban land. USDA rates Sibley very limited as ground for local roads and streets, putting shrink-swell at the top of its list, with low strength and frost action after it. We check the slope on every Kansas City job, along with the base and where the drainage will carry the water. The city estimates it will finish rebuilding Front Street from Chouteau Trafficway to North Topping Avenue, with new curbs, sidewalks and driveway aprons, by late 2027, so owners along there may want to plan the private side of their lots now and phase it over several years if the work needs to stretch.
- Commercial parking lots, drives, and flatwork
- Residential driveways, sidewalks, and patios
- HOA and multifamily work, scheduled around residents
- Industrial concrete pads and heavy-duty asphalt
- Municipal and church maintenance contracts
- Free onsite proposals, with callbacks the same or next business day
Paving In Kansas City: FAQs
Does Kansas City still bill homeowners for sidewalk repairs?
Public Works says it doesn't. Spot repairs used to be paid through assessments on adjoining owners, and because of the GO bonds voters approved in 2017 the city forgave the outstanding assessments and stopped assessing homeowners for sidewalk repair. The city now finds repair needs through its own inspection cycle. You can still report a sidewalk, curb or driveway problem to 311, and the city says those reports are reviewed and added to that cycle, though they don't trigger an automatic repair. If you'd rather not wait for the city to get to your block, the walk can be replaced privately under the city's remove-and-replace permit, once we check its current terms with the city.
Which part of my driveway does Kansas City actually permit and inspect?
Just the drive approach, the piece in the public right-of-way between the street and your property line. City Planning and Development says the driveway and parking space behind it don't need a permit, though they still have to comply with the Zoning and Development Code, Section 88-420-012. If you're adding a new driveway or parking pad, zoning has to approve it first or the city will deny the approach application. The remove-and-replace permit asks for a drawing with the location and measurements of the work, along with the square feet of approach and sidewalk and the linear feet of curb, and the city wants at least 24 hours' notice for each inspection. Fees are set by ordinance and given by permit staff, so we confirm the current requirements with the city for your address.
Can you rebuild the ramp where our sidewalk meets the street in Kansas City?
Ramps are concrete work our own crews self-perform, but in the public right-of-way Kansas City handles them differently than a straight sidewalk swap. The city's minor infrastructure page says ADA ramp construction plans are not reviewed under that permit application and that the work needs engineered plans submitted for review, pointing to its Major Infrastructure process. We build to the slopes and grades on those plans and tie the ramp into the accessible route on your property. A ramp on private ground still gets checked against the city's current requirements before we set forms.
We ship out of a building near Front Street. Will 8 inches be thick enough for our dock apron?
It may be, or it may need more. Heavy-duty concrete for us usually falls somewhere from 8 to 10 inches, and many factors push an apron toward one end or the other, starting with your trucks and what is under the slab. The soil survey puts the Front Street project on river alluvium that it labels rarely flooded, and just east of there it lists fill, so the base under the apron and the way water leaves it matter as much as the slab on top. Trucks can use a standard-mix apron in about 7 days. For an extra charge, a faster-curing mix gets that down to 2 or 3 days, and full cure comes at 30 days. If the yard can't shut down, we can phase the work across seasons or years so some doors stay in service.
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