As a result of the excavation, Berg said, the driveway of the house on the other side of the parcel was starting to collapse into the hole. Bad news, we’re going to have to take down the power lines in order to bring a crane in up from the bottom of the street to lift the modular house over your house to set it. Then, looking into the aftermath of the excavation, Ham talked to the foreman on the project and was informed that they were driving helical piles into the earth. While the scale of the Hanratty excavation is modest by comparison, photographs from June 30 made clear that the neighbor’s driveway was crumbling. If so, communication among the Land Bank, Maeda Construction and neighbors must have deteriorated as time went on.