AmCan council rule company must satisfy obligations to Vallejo

A developer must satisfy it obligations to Vallejo before building or occupying any more homes in an American Canyon subdivision the City Council has ruled.

Standard Pacific Homes will not be issued anymore building permits or certificates of occupancy for the Vintage Ranch subdivision until it has relocated transmission lines that pump water through American Canyon to Vallejo, the council declared Thursday.

New homes and a wall along Newell road were built to close to waterlines and pose a safety hazard to workers if they must be serviced, acting public works director Cheryl Breaulick said Friday.

“There will be no additional permits or certificates of occupancy until the water line issue is resolve,” she said.

The water line is just one of several problems the city and Standard Pacific has been wrangling over.

The number of homes that can be built in Vintage Ranch are tied to a number of milestones the developer must reach according to an agreement with the city.

One such marker was the completion of a new signalized intersection at Donaldson Way and Highway29/Broadway. So fire crews at American Canyon’s public safety building could safely exit the subdivision.

The new facility opened last month but the intersections has yet to be finished, forcing fire crews operating out of their old station on James Road for the time being.

Standard Pacific representatives blame Caltrans for the moving too slowly in issuing permits for the job.

“They have started that work now and it should be finished by the end of the year,” Breaulick said.

Despite the failure to meet the required benchmarks Standard Pacific asked the council for an amendment to its agreement by granting 35 more certificates of occupancy and 30 additional permits.

The council only agreed to issue 18 certificates of occupancy to cover homes that have already been sold to buyers who are to move in.

Source: Vallejo Times Herald (07/07/07)