There are dozens of new homes now under construction in the 797-home Cedar Point neighborhood on Austin Road north of the Highway 99 interchange, including some that are already finished.

Call them zombie homes.

That’s because the city will not issue occupancy permits until a $13.6 million “missing” link of the Woodward Avenue sewer trunk main is completed.

And if all goes well and the City Council on Tuesday approves an agreement with Lennar Homes that allows the project to proceed, work won’t start on the trunk line until June 1.

The work is expected to take a year to complete.

There is another wrinkle.

The work will start 100 feet east of Pagola Way and extend to the intersection with Woodward Avenue.

It is at that intersection where you will see poles go up for traffic signals in the next week or so.

But there is a slight problem.

The tall cranes needed for the sewer line project can’t be used if the crossarms holding the actual traffic signal lights are put in place.

And because work on the sewer main has to start in the west, the crews likely won’t reach South Main until next spring.

In the coming days city staff will need to make a decision.

They can have the cross arms put in place and install the signals and then take them down for the sewer work and put them back into place after it is done.

The other option is to “hang” the signals from cable, take then down when the work is done, and then put in place crossarms with the signals attached.

Meanwhile, Lennar Homes plans to continue to build homes and could theoretically have all 313 homes of the first phase that was approved either finished or under construction when the sewer work is finally completed next year.

The homes can be sold but not occupied until the sewer line is completed.

Lennar agreed to finish the final segment of the Woodward Avenue sewer and storm drain project started in 2013 as a condition for approval of Cedar Point.

The endeavor will also include replacing existing water mains, pavement widening at various locations, as well as putting in new curb, gutter and sidewalks at various points.

The agreement before the council will allow Lennar Homes to be reimbursed for the work from the Public Facilities Implementation Plan fees collected on new development to pay for major infrastructure needed to accommodate growth.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com