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TWSA OKs developer’s request
By Justin Goble
Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority Oct. 18 granted a one-year delay on Bostic-Kenney Construction Company’s capacity-assurance charge at Catamount Peak apartments on Speedwell Road.
Bostic-Kenney asked for the delay because of complications associated with beginning construction on the apartment complex’s second phase.
Phase two of Catamount Peak is scheduled to be completed before the start of Western Carolina University’s 2007-08 academic year. A capacity-assurance charge is used to ensure that allocated wastewater usage is actually used and that developers do not hold on to such allocations indefinitely. If a contractor does not begin to use its allocation after an agreed period of time, they face a charge of the minimum monthly bill.
Bostic-Kenney originally requested a two-year delay, and TWSA Director Joe Cline said he had no problem with allowing it. The contractor provided him with a final construction plan and the 2007 completion date was a “worst-case scenario” according to Cline.
“They definitely have plans to construct,” Cline said. “It’s just taken them a little while to get started.”
Though Cline was willing to allow the original request, TWSA board members, facing an increasing number of allocations, were wary of granting such a long delay.
“A lot can happen in two years,” board member Brad Moses said, adding that a one-year delay would allow the authority to see the construction’s progress and give them the option of either extending the delay another year or rescinding the allocation.
The company received a 60,000-gallon wastewater-per-day allocation in June of 2003, and the the first phase of the complex opened in January 2004.
TWSA officials also voted to reimburse Robert Henline of University Suites $1,267.94 for extending the water line on Ledbetter Road.
Cline said that in previous budget years TWSA had a provision to reimburse developers up to 40 percent of their acreage charge for off-site improvement and water-line extensions.
Since Henline’s improvements came while that provision was in place, officials decided to approve the reimbursement.
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