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Show Cenitervilles Progress Im Improvements allowed to occupy a residence there and already one homeowner is nearly ready to move in," said the mayor. "So it's imparative that the work be completed just as soon as possible." pos-sible." Mr. Harrison told the council coun-cil that once construction can begin on the improvements it will take only about one week to complete the street and 10 days to two weeks to finish the curbs, gutters and sidewalks. STORM DRAIN improvements improve-ments are also needed for the subdivision, but most of the storm drain will be utilized through the curbs and gutters, it was explained. Meanwhile, a temporary storm retention pond has been constructed to prevent runoff to nearby residences. MR. HARRISON said he had delayed having the dirt re moved because of a verbal agreement with an air products plant moving onto a site near Pages Lane. "I haven't been dragging my feet, but there have been circumstances cir-cumstances that have prevented pre-vented me from moving as fast on this project as 1 would have liked. I'm doing the best I can." he said. MAYOR Blackburn reminded re-minded the developer that he has an obligation to the homeowner whose home is nearly ready for occupancy and to all future homeowners to complete the project quickly. Earlier, Mayor Blackburn referred to a series of correspondence corres-pondence betw een the city and the developer -- dating back to July 12 -- at which time the developer de-veloper was "placed on notice" by the city to have the improvements completed within 90 days. By GARY R. BLODGETT News Editor CENTERVILLE -- Residents Resi-dents of nearby Island View Subdivision told the Centervil-le Centervil-le City Council at a special meeting last Tuesday night that "progress is being made to have improvements completed com-pleted within the subdivision." subdivi-sion." A TENTATIVE agreement was reached to have Bounti-ful's Bounti-ful's Redevelopment Agency (RDA) remove about 30,000 cubic yards of dirt from the site. The dirt will be hauled to a site in west Centerville as fill dirt for a future Utah Depart-ment Depart-ment of Transportation (UDOT) storage facility, explained ex-plained Mayor Neil L. Blackburn. Black-burn. Brent Harrison, developer of the new subdivision, was given six days notice the previous pre-vious week to "make substantial substan-tial progress with removal of the dirt or face court action to have the city remove the dirt. " MR. HARRISON told the council that Bountiful's RDA will begin to remove the dirt immediately and have the fill hauled from the subdivision within 30 days. Meanwhile, relocation of water lines is nearly completed and construction on the subdivision subdi-vision street, curbs, gutters and sidewalks can begin soon, the council was advised. "I'M PLEASED with the progress thus far, but I have instructed the city engineer to keep close tabs on the progress of the improvements to be certain cer-tain they (improvements) are completed just as quickly as possible," said Mayor Blackburn. Black-burn. He told the developer that no occupancy permits or new building permits will be allowed within the subdivision until the improvements are completed. "THE STREET must be paved before anyone is |