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FEMA and Natomas: Unfinished houses unlikely to be completed soon
by Kathleen Haley, published on April 1, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Storyline: Sacramento City Hall / Politics
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These homes are incomplete and they’re likely to stay that way for some time.
In Natomas, there are four half-built homes and 21 housing foundations made of concrete, according to a city document. The unfinished houses are part of the fallout from a city employee’s decision to provide 35 building permits to a developer in a Natomas flood zone last year.
City officials have acknowledged that the move did not follow Federal Emergency Management Agency rules.
The city provided FEMA with a corrective plan March 31.
In the plan, the city asks FEMA if the incomplete houses can be prepared for mothballing until the agency says that the city’s flood-protection efforts are strong enough to sustain development.
It “proposes allowing structure protection measures to be performed on the partially completed structures and slabs to maximize the likelihood that they will still be viable when construction is allowed again in the Natomas basin.”
This means that the city does not expect the unfinished houses to be built soon.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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The Parrhesiac
April 2, 2010 | 7:45 AM
Good - the law is clear on this subject, even if the City did grant the permits, the developer took the risk at his own peril. He should lose all the money invested - and everyone involved should be fired and lose their fat government pensions.
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Matt McGuire
April 2, 2010 | 11:50 AM
People in government jobs that screw up do not get fired. They get promoted.
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bbbbmer
April 2, 2010 | 2:15 PM
I take it you've never worked for a Fortune 500 company, or on Wall Street... The same thing happens, but it's even more dramatic -- with earnings in the billions these days.... Government isn't the problem -- Wall Street is....
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Matt McGuire
April 5, 2010 | 2:29 PM
I have never worked on Wall Street, but I have worked for several Fortune 500 companies. There are exceptions to every rule, but if you screw up the odds of getting fired at a Fortune 500 is many times more likely than in a government job. I have no problem with the government worker, it's the system that is setup around them that I have an issue with. It's easier to promote a bad government employee than it is to fire them. Sad, but true.
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