Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs

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57. Condo association accused Surfside of 'holding up' major repairs three days before collapse, emails

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MIAMI — The association of owners of the Champlain Towers South condominium knew their building needed repairs — a lot of them and soon — and by May they were trying in earnest to get town approval for their major renovation plans, according to emails between the association and town officials obtained by The Miami Herald.

The town building department wasn’t always responsive.

Emails show building department officials were silent for more than a month after the condo association submitted plans in May to the town asking for approval of a temporary parking plan in order move forward. The delay prompted Scott Stewart, the condo building manager, to accuse the town of “holding us up” as the association sought to accelerate the tower’s overhaul, which included repairs to a concrete slab under the pool deck and planters that experts are now pointing to as an initial point of failure that preceded the building collapse.

On June 23, the director of the Surfside building department, James McGuinness, finally responded with a list of logistics questions. It was just 14 hours before the tower collapsed. No one had a chance to reply.

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