Six-unit cluster development / flooding

A 30-year resident of 14th Court says the street now floods repeatedly — twice in six weeks — and blames the nearby eight-unit project built up on four feet of fill. She urged the board not to make it worse with six more units.

The River Oak Civic Association president, a 60-year neighborhood resident, guaranteed the project will make flooding worse, mocked the trash plan (18 containers along the street), and said developers' drainage promises never hold.

Lives one block away on 15th Street where groundwater bubbles up in yards; asked the developer to use pervious materials for patios and driveways because the ground there is already saturated.

Told a cautionary tale: townhouses built next to his 40-year-old duplex raised the grade and created 'Lake McNamara' in his front yard after normal rain. He blamed the buildings, not the city.