Permitting – both sites | West Houston Apartment Developments

September 9th, 2022 – John Cabiness

Good afternoon Mr. Cabiness,

As a follow-up to our recent phone conversation, I wanted to provide to you the information that I received from the Houston Permitting Center regarding your question from this morning:

“Yes, a permit is required and yes, the permit has been issued. (See Attached)

RE: 19142051 – 15635 ½ Memorial Dr. 7075 = Sitework & Utilities. This project was approved and permits purchased on 07/14/2022. Reviewed and Approved by the following departments: Structural, Flood, City Planning, Plumbing, Storm Drainage, Water and Traffic.

RE: 22042858 – 15635 Memorial Dr. Building 4 77079 = New Multifamily Development w/Parking Garage. (Master of 10) This project has NOT yet been approved and currently in the review phase. Departments involved in the review are Flood, Storm Drainage, Electrical, Fire Marshal, Hvac, City Planning, Plumbing, Traffic and Water Department.

All projects will and shall comply with ALL applicable City Ordinances and Building Codes. I am certain no approvals were granted or will be granted nor a permit issued before complete compliance is achieved. I have looped in City Engineer Mr. Suhail Kanwar PE in case there are any follow questions pertaining to the Traffic, Storm, or Flood reviews. “

Please let me know if I can be of additional assistance.

Kind regards,

James C. Rains, MPA

My GC pal read all the information on our website and is equally shocked by these developments and does not think the existing infrastructure can handle these two developments (whatever that is worth). He can’t believe that they have already passed Commercial/site works/utilities review, see first snippet below. Flood plain? Storm drain? These should be challengeable. He suggested reaching out to the agency’s (e.g., fire department – rescues during flooding, Houston public works (wastewater), even HPD – security) to express our concerns and get support. I did confirm no permits are needed for an owner to clear a property, especially since none had existing infrastructure.

He recommended to give the developers and contractors some grief, so find out who is doing the work and give them hell. James Haffelder is listed as applicant for 19142051 and Jill Schroeder for 22042858. Who do they work for? My GC Pal’s quote, no one wants to be the bad guy and none of the construction companies want the bad press.

Good news is improvement 22042858 failed 150- Fire Marshall and 220 Public works and engineering (like wastewater).

Normally permitting can take 6-9 months for a project of this size, but since this has Turner’s support it might be able to move faster. Bottom line: we should get in front of these agencies. Some have allegiance to Mayor’s office, others do not.

He gave me this link to look up permit:

City of Houston > Online Permits (houstontx.gov)

City of Houston > Online Permits

https://www.pdinet.pd.houstontx.gov/cohilms/webs/plan_lookup.asp

Vincent

On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 06:22:38 PM CDT, Greg Sergesketter <sergesketter@gmail.com> wrote:

We think it might have been related to the developer that had it previously under contract, but it didn’t close.

Greg

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:19 PM V P <vinnp@yahoo.com> wrote:

Great research! HHA didn’t get approval to buy property until June 2022, these dates go back to Dec 2019, odd. As mentioned before I’ll review with my GC pal.

Thanks,

Vincent

On Sep 12, 2022, at 5:07 PM, Greg Sergesketter <sergesketter@gmail.com> wrote:

We can’t do direct links to the projects and their information. However, here is some of the info that John did find:

Plan Check Time-Line Information

Project Number:	19142051
Description:	(EPR) COMMERCIAL, SITE WORK/UTILITIES
Address:	15635 1/2 MEMORIAL DR

PLAN CHECK STATUS      9/12/2022 4:06:18 PM Department Entry Description Entry Date CODE ENFORCEMENT
     330 – STRUCTURAL P Review requirement identified 12/09/19 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Review requirement identified 12/31/19 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     520 – Applicant finalized submission Document upload complete 12/31/19 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     300 – PRELIMINARY REVIEW Review submission for completeness 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     300 – PRELIMINARY REVIEW Passed department/section review 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     301 – INITIAL MANAGEMENT REVIEW Assign a review coordinator 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33L – L-COMMERCIAL Plan check scheduled 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     301 – INITIAL MANAGEMENT REVIEW Passed department/section review 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Passed department/section review 01/03/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Review requirement identified 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     320 – PLUMBING Review requirement identified 01/03/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Review requirement identified 01/03/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Review requirement identified 01/03/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Review requirement identified 01/03/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Plan check scheduled 01/06/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Did not pass dept/section review 01/06/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Plan check scheduled 01/14/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Did not pass dept/section review 01/14/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     330 – STRUCTURAL P Plan check scheduled 01/15/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     330 – STRUCTURAL P Did not pass dept/section review 01/15/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     320 – PLUMBING Plan check scheduled 01/16/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     320 – PLUMBING Passed department/section review 01/16/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Plan check scheduled 01/17/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Did not pass dept/section review 01/17/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Did not pass dept/section review 01/17/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Plan check scheduled 01/22/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Did not pass dept/section review 01/22/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Plan check scheduled 01/24/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Passed department/section review 01/24/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Did not pass dept/section review 01/24/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33R – REVIEW COMPLETE – PERMIT DENIED Correction/addition info required 01/24/20 RETURNED TO APPLICANT
     100 – APPLICANT Plans no longer with City 01/24/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     520 – Applicant finalized submission Document upload complete 02/11/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Passed department/section review 02/19/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Plan check scheduled 02/20/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Did not pass dept/section review 02/20/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     330 – STRUCTURAL P Plan check scheduled 02/25/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     330 – STRUCTURAL P Passed department/section review 02/25/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Plan check scheduled 02/25/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Did not pass dept/section review 02/25/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Plan check scheduled 02/26/20 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Did not pass dept/section review 02/26/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Plan check scheduled 02/28/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Did not pass dept/section review 02/28/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Plan check scheduled 03/02/20 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Did not pass dept/section review 03/02/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33R – REVIEW COMPLETE – PERMIT DENIED Correction/addition info required 03/02/20 RETURNED TO APPLICANT
     100 – APPLICANT Plans no longer with City 03/02/20 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     520 – Applicant finalized submission Document upload complete 12/09/21 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Passed department/section review 12/16/21 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Plan check scheduled 12/30/21 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     250 – FLOOD PLAIN Passed department/section review 12/30/21 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Plan check scheduled 12/30/21 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Did not pass dept/section review 12/30/21 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Plan check scheduled 12/30/21 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Did not pass dept/section review 12/30/21 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Plan check scheduled 01/11/22 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Did not pass dept/section review 01/11/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Plan check scheduled 01/14/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Did not pass dept/section review 01/14/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33R – REVIEW COMPLETE – PERMIT DENIED Correction/addition info required 01/16/22 RETURNED TO APPLICANT
     100 – APPLICANT Plans no longer with City 01/16/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     520 – Applicant finalized submission Document upload complete 05/18/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Passed department/section review 05/19/22 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Plan check scheduled 05/20/22 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     220 – UTIL. REVIEW Passed department/section review 05/20/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Plan check scheduled 06/17/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     360 – STORM DRAIN Passed department/section review 06/17/22 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Plan check scheduled 06/21/22 PUBLIC WORKS & ENGINEERING
     120 – TRAFFIC Passed department/section review 06/21/22 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Plan check scheduled 06/28/22 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Did not pass dept/section review 06/28/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Determine review requirements 06/28/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33R – REVIEW COMPLETE – PERMIT DENIED Correction/addition info required 06/28/22 RETURNED TO APPLICANT
     100 – APPLICANT Plans no longer with City 06/28/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     520 – Applicant finalized submission Document upload complete 07/07/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     302 – DEPARTMENT ASSIGNMENTS Passed department/section review 07/08/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     303 – UNDER REVIEW Plans release for general review 07/08/22 PLANNING
     140 – PLANNING Passed department/section review 07/13/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     303 – UNDER REVIEW Passed department/section review 07/14/22 CODE ENFORCEMENT
     33A – REVIEW COMPLETE – PLANS APPROVED Plans approved for permitting 07/14/22 RETURNED TO APPLICANT
     100 – APPLICANT Plans no longer with City 07/14/22

Search Results: 6 Record(s) found for Project No: 19142051

Date: Valuation:

Sold (approved) Permits Report Date: 09/12/2022

PROJECT_NO

PERMIT_DESC

OWNER_OCCUPANT

Address

PROJECT_DESC

CURRENT_VALUATION

PERMIT_TYPE

19142051

CRT/COMPLIANCE

15635 1/2 MEMORIAL DR 77079