# Reversion to acreage Reversion to acreage (also "reduction to acreage") is the legal process by which an old recorded subdivision plat is dissolved — its platted lots, streets, alleys, and easements cancelled — so the land reverts to a single unplatted tract that can be assessed and developed as acreage. In Arkansas it has long been available by petition to the county court (the 1965 precedent records in this corpus cite "Act 91 of 1929," Arkansas Statutes 19-407 to 19-413); a plat's private restrictions are separately cancelled by revoking the plat's recorded Bill of Assurance. ## How it appears in the corpus The AVAIO "Project Leo" site contained a never-built 1912 subdivision plat, the **Vesta Addition**. Pulaski County made its dissolution a condition of site plan approval, because, in [[Jim Cranor]]'s words, "our ordinance does not allow buildings to cross platted lot lines" ([[Pulaski County Planning Correspondence on Project Leo]]). The corpus documents both the mechanism and a precedent: - **The mechanism.** [[Arnett Construction Company]], as fee owner, executed a **Revocation of Bill of Assurance** on 2025-11-13, terminating the 1912 Vesta Addition plat so the land could be "developed as a single unified tract of land." - **A precedent.** Cranor supplied AVAIO's engineer with 1965 Pulaski County Court records — a petition, notice, and order reducing the Morris Heights Suburban Addition to acreage — as a working "sample" of the procedure. See [[Vesta Addition Reversion to Acreage]]. ## Stakeholders The landowner petitions for or executes the revocation; the county requires it where old plat lines obstruct a unified development; the county court historically entered the reduction orders. For a data-center developer assembling a large tract, it is a routine but necessary title-clearing step. ## Timeline - **1912-02-17** — the Vesta Addition Bill of Assurance is recorded. - **1965** — the Morris Heights Suburban Addition is reduced to acreage (the precedent records). - **2024-11** — Pulaski County flags the Vesta Addition plat inside the Project Leo site. - **2025-11-13** — Arnett Construction revokes the Vesta Addition Bill of Assurance. ## Notes