Mr. Statel,
In reference to your statement, "Let Buyers Beware", let me ask you...did you buy your home under those assumptions? Should I have asked if there was insulation behind my drywalls? Or, did our street get used for meth parties at night? Totally ridiculous to not see that this neighborhood, Plantation Estates, is INSIDE the city limits of Soddy Daisy and that makes it a CITY problem. The developers of this subdivision violated laws, period! The city also own some of the problems as well because they did not inspect the work as it was intended to be done. Ditches were moved improperly without approval and these same ditches are destroying the city's property, the culverts, the pipes, the catch-basins, etc.. So, yes, taxpayers like us, want someone other than US to step up and do what is necessary to resolve this problem.
The engineers said in the last meeting that the city and the developer were both at fault! Go to City Hall and get yourself a report of what was PROVEN. Finally, I bought my home here with good faith that all laws in building and developing was done according to state and federal laws and I should not have to assume there are problems like this for me to find out at a later time.
I think the city will at some point come to the realization that government is OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. That means that we are ALL in this together. If laws were broken, and they were, someone should step up and pay for it. It is WE that have been infringed on.
Faulty work blamed for subdivision flooding
Mr. Statel, In reference to your statement, "Let Buyers Beware", let me ask you...did you buy your home under those assumptions? Should I have asked if there was insulation behind my drywalls? Or, did our street get used for meth parties at night? Totally ridiculous to not see that this neighborhood, Plantation Estates, is INSIDE the city limits of Soddy Daisy and that makes it a CITY problem. The developers of this subdivision violated laws, period! The city also own some of the problems as well because they did not inspect the work as it was intended to be done. Ditches were moved improperly without approval and these same ditches are destroying the city's property, the culverts, the pipes, the catch-basins, etc.. So, yes, taxpayers like us, want someone other than US to step up and do what is necessary to resolve this problem. The engineers said in the last meeting that the city and the developer were both at fault! Go to City Hall and get yourself a report of what was PROVEN. Finally, I bought my home here with good faith that all laws in building and developing was done according to state and federal laws and I should not have to assume there are problems like this for me to find out at a later time. I think the city will at some point come to the realization that government is OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. That means that we are ALL in this together. If laws were broken, and they were, someone should step up and pay for it. It is WE that have been infringed on.