Last October, city building officials in Draper, Utah declared that two cliff-top homes on East Springtime Road were “unfit for human habitation.” On Saturday, those two homes were filmed crumbling down the side of a cliff.
“Can you imagine, the house you worked so hard to purchase and maintain and it falls off a cliff,” one person commented on TikTok. “That’s so devastating.”
@kutv2news Two homes collapsed in Draper, Utah, months after they were ordered to be evacuated due to dangerous conditions related to sliding and breaks in the homes’ foundations. Read more at kutv.com in the link in our bio. : Draper City
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New home collapses in Utah after builder tells families the houses are safe. People paid close to a $1,000,000 for these overlooking a canyon and then the homes started to slide. pic.twitter.com/s2DNKjUAgr
— Catastrophic Failure (@ohshidt) April 23, 2023
“I feel so horrible for the families,” another person agreed. “Your dream home just falling down the cliff and there’s nothing you can do.”
According to the Draper City Government’s Facebook page, the incidents “were related to earth shifting that resulted in sliding and breaks in the homes’ foundations.” Two additional homes were evacuated, and officials have been “following up with the developer, Edge Homes, for months on engineering studies Edge Homes has conducted regarding the stability of the surrounding area.”
— Catastrophic Failure (@ohshidt) April 24, 2023
The Kamradt family bought one of the doomed houses for $900,000 back in November 2021. “This was our forever home,” they said in a 2022 article by Fox 13 about their eviction. “So, we were devastated.” The other family declined to comment due to a “paragraph in their purchasing contract in which they agreed ‘not to disparage Seller in any public or private format.’”
Local here. The mountain this community sits on is primarily made of sediment. In fact the west side is a massive quarry for rock and sand product.
— Nico (VER|FlED ACCOUNT) (@NormalNico) April 23, 2023
People have been worried about exactly
this for 20 years, but the state is more interested in builder's money than oversight. pic.twitter.com/1euelphNcR
As one TikTok user put it, “This is what happens when cities offer permits to developers because all they see is money.”
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