City leaders gives green light for 151 rental units in far south Fort Worth
Fort Worth city leaders have cleared plans for a 151-unit rental complex at the northwest intersection of Altamesa Boulevard and Village Parkway.
City council members voted unanimously on Tuesday, April 8 to rezone 16.7 acres of commercial land for high-density multifamily use, waving it through without discussion.
The now vacant patch of land is roughly a mile west of Interstate 35W, within walking distance of a post office, a gas station, a high school and miles of subdivisions.
NexMetro, an Arizona-based developer, plans to build a “cottage style” complex on the site.
“We feel that this is an appropriate land use at this location,” Travis Clegg, a director at Westwood Professional Services, a civil engineering consultancy hired by NexMetro, told city zoning commissioners at a meeting last month.
City zoning staff had judged the complex an inappropriate use of the site. Officials reasoned that the property’s existing zoning, neighborhood commercial — allowing restaurants, banks, barber shops and similar businesses — better served the community.
“The area includes at least five neighborhoods,” zoning staff stated in its report. “And maintaining neighborhood commercial zoning would provide convenient services to existing residents.”
Zoning commissioners recommended in a split vote that city council approve the project nonetheless.
