Construction At Olivia Takes A Pause As The Dust Settles Over The Surrounding Neighborhoods And The Mice Move In At Stranahan

By Clayton Watch

After being overwhelmed with complaints from neighbors, the city hired Kennedy and Associates in mid September to provide oversight of Olivia (an 81 unit, 3-story, 3 building apartment project in Historic Downtown) to insure the developer is following the "Best Management Practices" for the construction phase and that he is adhering to all the Conditions of Approval (COA's)--all 119 of them. Is it working? You decide.

Condition #53 required the developer to hydro-seed all the slopes greater than 5 feet in height prior to September 15th in order to allow the seeds to grow and stabilize the slopes before the rainy season . It did not happen. I guess the developer believes we are still in a drought. 

Condition #11, Rodent Control. At least, this pause in construction will allow all the rodents that left the site during all the grading a chance to return home for the holidays providing they are not washed out onto Marsh Creek Road when the rains come. 

Condition #107, No construction activity on weekends unless authorized by the city. The developer decided to ignore this condition and got caught after a neighbor complained. Oversight by the neighbors. 

Condition #29, Dust Control. On the day the picture below was taken (and many other days before and after this picture) the "Best Management Practices" allowed the developer to have someone walk in front of the bulldozer with a garden hose to control the dust as required by BAAQMD standards. That certainly worked out well. Just ask the surrounding neighbors. It makes you wonder. How many of the other 119 COA's are being ignored and who is pulling the "strings?" 

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