Summit County reviews Dakota Pacific’s revised Kimball Junction proposal, weighing density, traffic and affordability

Dakota Pacific representatives presented a scaled-back version of their Kimball Junction proposal and spent more than two hours answering council questions about density, traffic and affordability.

Mark Stanworth, the developer’s lead presenter, said the return to a high-level “Plan C” was intended to test whether the council agreed with the project’s broad elements before investing in detailed design. "This is very much a public process," he said, "...our intent in bringing this plan back in front of the council was not some plan C plus or D or E or F. This was a reiteration of what we had presented before." He described Plan C as a sizable reduction from earlier proposals — removing a 120-key hotel, trimming commercial square footage and lowering total built area from roughly 1.7 million square feet to about 1.3 million.

The developer said the revised plan would deliver roughly 727 residential units and estimated those units would translate to about 1,500–1,600 full‑time resident equivalents using HUD occupancy standards and local survey data. Council member Tanya summarized the underlying entitlement scale…