Summit County this week hosted the first in a series of Open Houses on the Kimball Junction Master Plan.
County council member Doug Clyde offered a few thoughts about the meeting.
Clyde said that the Master Plan was formulated over nearly two years by the county staff and stakeholders at the Junction, looking to see if the remaining unbuilt density could be better planned.
Clyde said Wednesday’s Open House was reasonably well-attended. He said most of the public were residents from the East Side of the Junction, and they had two differing messages.
“One was general satisfaction, or even enthusiasm, about what our master plan is identifying as key elements or important strategies or concerns about how Kimball junction moves forward," Clyde said. "The other concern that we hear from the public often is they want to know precisely what is happening. They want to know, OK you're going into Kimball Junction, you're going to do a master plan perhaps of this area, how big is the building going to be? Where is the building going to be? How many people are going to live there? How many cars are going to be there? Etc. That is not what the general plan does.”
He said there is still some 1.3 million square feet of unbuilt density.
“Should we just let it go forward or should we consider other uses? What the Kimball Junction Master Plans does is it says, well maybe we should be considering more mixed uses," Clyde continued. "Maybe we should be making the West side of Kimball Junction which is where Skull Candy is maybe that should end up looking a little more like the East side of Kimball junction.”