Residents at a neighborhood in Morris are seeing red as they drive on half-finished roads.

According to some of them, and to Morris Mayor Joe Pylant, their subdivision developer had promised to have the Overbrook Highlands subdivision paved by the time winter 2013 started.

That was following at least five years of previous broken promises by Clint Singletary, the developer, to finish the project and pave the subdivision, according to several residents at numerous city council meetings last year.

“This has been the same story for five years,” said one of the residents at a council meeting in June 2013, as others agreed.

Pylant told the North Jefferson News last fall that Singletary had promised him the paving would be completed by winter. “He assures me it will get done before it gets cold,” Pylant said in October.

However, Singletary denies making that promise.

“I did exactly what I told them I was going to do,” Singletary said on Monday. “It’s not completed. I told them how much I was going to do and that’s what I did.”

Singletary said he paved a little more than half of the subdivision before winter.

Overbrook resident Dan Carre, however, said Singletary paved nowhere near that much of the subdivision last fall.

“I would not say he’s done half of it. He came in and paved one little street [Overbrook Circle],” said Carre. “Everybody got excited because they thought he was going to do the whole thing. But he stopped.”

A large piece of equipment used in the paving process still sits near the subdivision entrance. Carre, who is also a member of the homeowners association board, said crews are having to mow around it.

“It’s kind of a bad reminder that he hasn’t completed the paving,” Carre said. “For seven months it’s been sitting there.”

This week, Singletary said he will finish the paving this year.

“To give myself leeway so I don’t put myself in a box, it will be done by the end of summer,” Singletary said.

At Overbrook, the base coat of asphalt is down, but the final coat must be applied so the street can be turned over to the city of Morris for maintenance. Until then, Morris city crews have no authority to work on the subdivision streets.

The asphalt is worn in many places, with numerous potholes and grass growing in some areas. One Overbrook resident, Cindy Berry, has filled some of the holes herself with concrete.