ADDISON - Property owners developing businesses in the Town of Addison are speaking out to the town council about a lack of sewer service to their sites hindering economic development.
Johnny and Sherry Porter, who own businesses and are developing future sites for businesses off Highway 278 near the Texaco, approached Mayor Marsha Pigg and the council at the council’s Monday, July 15, meeting, emphasizing that something had to be done to correct a situation they had been facing at least the past six months.
Pigg recognized the Porters, who were seated in the audience at the council meeting.
“We’ve got to do something,” Pigg began.“...I don’t know what else to do.”
“Does Addison have an attorney?” Johnny asked.
“Right here,” responded Shane Cook, who was seated at the table with council members.
Charles Moore, water and wastewater operator for the Town of Addison, explained the Porters have been building and developing businesses just off Highway 278 near the Texaco station, with plans to build another business, but have been waiting to get sewer service the past several months.
“He’s needing sewer and we’ve been trying to get it. It’s just a little snag with some retail property signing off on it through their corporate lawyers,” Moore explained.
The six-inch gravity sewer line would run from the property being developed to Addison Florist, where it would go into a pump station that would carry the sewer service by a three-inch line over to the manhole located on the property leased by Jack’s Family Restaurants at the intersection of Highway 278 and County Road 41, Moore explained.
The total length of the sewer line would be about 1,200 feet, with 400 feet of it crossing the property that Jack’s leases from National Retail Properties LP, which has yet to sign an easement so the project can proceed, according to town officials.
The town has agreed to contract out for the installation of the sewer line, pending the easement being signed, town officials said.
“All we are waiting on is them to sign the easement, which they said they were going to. It’s at their corporate office,” Moore pointed out. “It’s probably been about five to six months.”
Once the easement is signed, the sewer line installation project would be put out on a short bid of 14 days, according to Moore.
“(The property owners) have been waiting on it,” Moore stressed.
The remaining property owners affected by the installation of the sewer line are in agreement for the easement the Town of Addison needs in order to install the sewer line, town officials informed.
When all of the property owners have signed the easement, it will represent a total of seven owners, according to Town Clerk Cindy Luker.
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