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Council presses Lennar over punch-list items; staff to seek responses and provide weekly reports
Summary
City staff presented a 12-item packet of outstanding construction issues at a Lennar subdivision; council debated whether items are plan-required or goodwill fixes and agreed to request written proof of corrections, hold weekly progress updates and reassess whether to call the performance bond after staff review.
City staff presented a packet of resident complaints and field observations on Aug. 11 alleging that multiple items at a Lennar development remain unaddressed. The packet, compiled by resident Mr. Almedia, listed a dozen issues including damaged or missing sidewalks, pond stabilization, landscaping installations that were not completed, isolated asphalt ponding near inlets and iron-stained irrigation water that is discoloring properties.
The city manager and staff reviewed each line item in the packet and reported which items the developer says have been corrected, which are pending receipt of deliverables and which require further discussion. Staff told the council that some items appeared to be completed, others required additional proof (for example, staff requested proof that certain May repairs were finished), and a few items—such as the iron-stained irrigation water—are currently outside the city’s immediate ability to require corrective action because the plans approved use of an irrigation well.
Council members pressed staff on options including enforcing plan requirements, seeking restitution, or calling the developer’s performance bond. One councilor stressed that the city should not pull the bond on items that were not required by the approved plans, while others said the city must hold the developer to what it committed to do. Staff told council the inlet risers for some roadwork are on a six-month lead time but that vendor information indicated delivery by Aug. 15; members asked for weekly progress reports and for Lennar or its senior representatives to appear at a future meeting if progress is not adequate.
City staff said the packet was transmitted to Lennar late the same afternoon and that staff would schedule follow-up calls with Lennar management and Clark/Hobby (the city’s engineers for some items) and would provide a written update to council in approximately two weeks. Council gave staff direction to escalate discussions if progress stalled and to re-evaluate the possibility of calling the bond after the next report.
