The City of Union has postponed taking over maintenance of streets, water lines and storm sewers at McBride Homes' St. Andrews Meadows subdivision after inspectors found cracked concrete panels, pavement repairs with limited documentation and a broken water main. The city is holding off on accepting the infrastructure.
What Inspectors Found on the East Side of Union
The city postponed taking over maintenance at St. Andrews Meadows after a review turned up multiple problems, according to The Missourian. The subdivision, located on the east side of Union, had concrete panels with visible cracking and multiple pavement repairs that came with limited documentation for the city to review. A storm sewer and backfill issue was serious enough to require about 150 feet of road reconstruction.
The review found pavement repairs and visibly cracked concrete panels. The city postponed taking over the improvements.
A Water Main Break Adds to the Concerns
Among the problems was a water main break at a point where the line appeared stressed or misaligned.
The city has postponed taking over the subdivision's infrastructure while concerns are addressed.
St. Andrews Meadows has 152 homesites.
Union's First McBride Project, With More on the Way
St. Andrews Meadows is McBride Homes' first residential development in Union, according to missourian.com. McBride also pursued a community improvement district for the site that would let it install infrastructure upfront and recoup the cost over time, a structure that could make St. Andrews Meadows the first property in Union to form its own CID, according to the same outlet.
The infrastructure dispute comes as McBride pushes for a second, larger project in Union. The builder is seeking approval for Rock Ridge, a 156-lot subdivision planned east of Rock Road, northeast of the intersection of Highways 47 and 50. Together, the two subdivisions could eventually add nearly 300 homes to the city's existing housing stock, underscoring how much is riding on how the city and McBride work through the current infrastructure concerns.
