City Site Plan Requirements
City Site Plan Requirements
(OP)
I am the engineer on a 1-acre site plan. The Subdivision eng brought a 12-inch water line to service our lot and the adjoining lots from the original property. The City is now telling me our building owner must, for fire safety, provide 1000-feet of offsite water line to complete the developer's loop, as the developer's dead end line is not satisfactory for fire safety. Anybody ever dealt with this?





RE: City Site Plan Requirements
Is the City attempting to force you to finish the subdivision developer's contract?
There are no hard and fast rules with these types of contract arrangements. For large projects, municipalities may be more accomodating to entice a development. For small projects, probably less accomodating.
Some personalites in these types of Contract discussions may be able to drive harder bargains and get better deals.
RE: City Site Plan Requirements
RE: City Site Plan Requirements
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The best approach is to sit down with the municipality and the owner at the same table, and explain how it's better for everyone involved to come to an agreement on how to fix this without bringing lawyers into the mix. When you sit down with them, you need to have a list of ideas to fix the situation that would work for both parties - either cost sharing or some way to recoup the cost from future land buyers, or whatever. If the municipality balks, then it's lawyers guns and money time, and the subdivision developer shouldn't be ignored.
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RE: City Site Plan Requirements
This situation still sounds to me like the original subdivision developer hasn't completed his portion of the agreement with the City. If hmcrae's client wants to build in advance of the completion of the loop, it sounds like they'll have to bear the expense.
Also be ready for some tough questions, ie Why should the City cost share, how much did they pay for the property, did they know the loop was incomplete ...