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Developers return with revised West Side master plan for Kimbell Junction; council schedules site visit
Summary
Developers and AO Architects presented updated master‑plan concepts for the West Side of Kimbell Junction — including an amphitheater, a pedestrian plaza and roughly 650–750 residential units (mix of market and affordable) — and council requested further metrics and an on‑site tour.
Developers of the Kimbell Junction West Side (Dakota Pacific and project consultants) returned to the council for an updated master‑plan presentation that showed a pedestrian‑focused plaza, mixed‑use retail with affordable housing above, an amphitheater and a network of smaller residential buildings rather than large apartment blocks.
AO Architects’ representative Rob Biedetti and the project team walked the council through concept images, cross sections and capacity estimates. The amphitheater concept shows roughly 125 formal seats at a stage plus an expanded lawn area that could accommodate several hundred additional attendees depending on how lawn density is counted; project team estimates ranged between about 850–950 people using the lawn at lower density assumptions. The presenters described design elements such as glazed retail frontage, two‑story retail with residential above (approximately 20 feet per retail level plus residential floors), and active plaza programming (farmers markets, public art).
On the residential side, the team described a typology of townhomes, four‑plexes and smaller apartment buildings. The master plan as presented totals roughly 650–680 units in the mapped area; including the developer‑discussed affordable building could bring the plan closer to 750 units previously referenced. The team estimated an overall buildout horizon of roughly eight years from final approvals.
Councilors pressed design and grading questions (sight lines, pipeline setbacks and topography), asked for unit counts by building type and requested site sections that run northwest to southeast. Staff and developers agreed to provide more detailed unit/building counts and to schedule an on‑site visit; councilors also asked staff to coordinate cemetery site and other nearby visits on the same trip.
No formal action was taken; council and staff agreed to continue review and to bring more detailed site metrics to the next meeting and to conduct the site visit next Wednesday if logistics permit.
