NORTH PORT – North Port city commissioners unanimously approved the master plan for developing Serenity at North Port, a 180-home luxury apartment complex on Toledo Blade Boulevard, praising the company for listening to the public during previous hearings and reducing the size that had been set at 276 units.
In addition to reducing density, the developer – Hamden, Connecticut-based Belfonti Companies – created a small park for the community near the intersection of Lovett and Oakley roads and maximized the distance between the three-story apartment buildings and the surrounding single-family homes.
Vice Mayor Phil Stokes said the presentation was one of the best he’d seen and predicted that the apartment complex will be an asset for the area, adding that the proposal reminded him of Tropia, the Wellen Park apartment complex where he has been living while his new house in Wisteria is finished.
Commissioner Barbara Langdon added, “I think the effect of your design on the surrounding area is that they have a park and not higher density.”