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Residents push city to enforce developer bond after months of unfinished Abbott Square roadwork
Summary
At Monday’s Zephyrhills City Council meeting a resident described months-long delays by developer Lennar on curb, gutter and paving work in Abbott Square and council directed staff to give a final 30-day deadline tied to the developer’s performance bond.
Mike Almeda, an Abbott Square resident, told the Zephyrhills City Council on July 14 that Lennar has left multiple street, drainage and landscaping repairs undone after recent curb-and-gutter work, and that the developer’s crews later damaged newly poured curbs when they milled the roadway. "They repair some curb and gutter ... then they decided that was when they were gonna rip up the pavement to repave it. In that process, they destroyed the brand new curb and gutter," Almeda said.
The issue matters to hundreds of neighborhood households because unfinished pavement and unresolved drainage have persisted for weeks, residents said. Almeda said Lennar told the city work would begin June 1 and be a five-week process; as of the July 14 meeting the…
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