Additionally, a public road will be converted into a private road for the development known as Dove Ridge Addition. Council approved the revision request, with a variance, by a 5-1 vote. Council member Frances Scharli voted no, while Dr. Randy Robbins was absent from the vote during the Jan. 20 meeting.
The details
A request made by David Lewis from Spry Surveyors was to change the development from five single-family residential lots to six on the 7.4-acre land.
The change would remove one of the previously approved two open spaces. Dennis Killough, Southlake's director of planning and development, said the developer had purchased 0.11 acres at 2117 E. Dove Road and is adding that into one of the open spaces and making a sixth lot.
With the change, the alignment of a cul-de-sac street will also be shifted. There will still be an open space on the property near East Dove Road.
The house at 2080 E. Dove Road has been there since 1998 and has a gated entrance.
At the Jan. 8 planning and zoning commission meeting, the commission voted 6-0 to recommend approval of the plat while denying the associated variance request for the gate.
What they’re saying
John Sharkey, the developer, said that he wasn’t tied to having the gate, but there is interest.
“It's more about the fact that there's a lot of other gated communities and competing neighborhoods around North Texas and Tarrant County, especially; that's just what the market is demanding,” he said. “There is a gate in the adjacent neighborhood, Moss Farms. It's right next to it, so I do think it would be consistent. It wouldn't be very different on that streetscape.”
The background
Council voted on a preliminary plat Feb. 18, 2025, which featured five houses and two open spaces.
The property development was presented by former Southlake Mayor John Huffman at a Southlake Corridor Planning Committee meeting Nov. 13, 2024.
The development was called Cardinal Court addition, according to the documents.
This is the fourth such iteration for this property. According to city documents, Kingdom Place was a nine-lot development with two common areas over 11.43 acres as of December 2015. That plat had expired, but Sharkey pointed out that approval for the development then had gate access.
