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Twenty-eight single-family homes are planned for a gated community on Veritas Way in Arlington. (Courtesy image | Pote Enterprises)
” data-medium-file=”https://fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image1.png?fit=300%2C178&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image1.png?fit=780%2C462&ssl=1″ tabindex=”0″ role=”button”>At its Aug. 27 meeting, Arlington City Council unanimously approved construction of a private gated residential community on about 5.499 acres in an area south of West Abram Street and east of South Bowen Road.The community is less than 2 miles west of the UT-Arlington campus.The community will create new addresses at 502-524 Veritas Way, 2200-2210 Veritas Way, 503-519 Veritas Way and 2201-2207 Veritas Way. The developer/owner, Pote Enterprises in Arlington, said it would build a 28-unit, gated single-family home subdivision, at 5.1 units per acre. The contractor on the subdivision is Rembert Custom Builders of Flower Mound.The area near the subdivision held mostly single-family homes until multifamily projects were developed there in the 1970s and 1980s. The community will be developed under R5 zoning that permits 5,000-square-foot lots. Currently, the proposed site is undeveloped, but two single-family homes that existed before a previous zoning approval in 2019 have been removed. Since then, the property has been subdivided into 28 residential lots and six open space lots, in accordance with the approved development plan.The City Council voted to approve the development on its consent agenda.When it was considered in July by zoning commissioners, much of the discussion involved developers meeting the 35% preservation standard of the city’s tree ordinance. City staff recommended a 29% standard for this project after the developers originally sought to preserve 26% of trees based on the nature of the property and the health of the trees on that land.Commissioners exchanged several ideas on ways to increase the preservation percentage, including looking for clumps of trees that could be saved in the development, eliminating sidewalks and increasing the size of trees to be planted from 3-inch trees to 4-inch trees.Reginald Rembert of Rembert Custom Builders told zoning commissioners in July that the original 2019 plan was entitled to the 29% standard. He assured the commission that the developers could reach the 29% preservation level but that trying to achieve the newer 35% standard might be a project killer.“We will commit to 29%, even if we have to lose a lot,” Rembert said in July. Developers also agreed to plant 4-inch trees on the property in lieu of the previously proposed 3-inch trees.At the Arlington Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.