Southlake Weighs an Office Park on Kimball

🏢 Southlake Weighs an Office Park on Kimball

🌳 Harriet Creek Ranch Park Is Getting a Redo

🗳️ Polls Are Open Until 7 Tonight

❤️ Local Favorite: The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque in Trophy Club

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🏢 Southlake Weighs an Office Park on Kimball

A 3.62-acre tract at 501 N. Kimball Ave. is zoned for agriculture today, though Southlake's land use plan has long pointed it toward offices. Tonight the City Council takes a first look at Magnolia Property Company's plan to change that: five two-story office buildings, each on its own lot, with about 56,400 square feet of floor space and 192 parking spaces. The company already runs an office park in Southlake, and its renderings borrow from that look.

The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval 5-1 on Oct. 8, and the developer has since added pervious pavers to stay under the city's 65% limit on hard surfaces. A couple of exceptions are still part of the ask. The plan would keep about 19.7% of the site's existing tree canopy, where the city's tree ordinance calls for 60%, and the Kimball driveway would be limited to right turns in and out because it sits closer to a median opening than city rules normally allow. The applicant's traffic study estimates about 662 vehicle trips a day.

Three nearby property owners have filed written opposition, covering roughly 32% of the land within 200 feet of the site. That's above the 20% threshold, so if the opposition holds, final approval on second reading would need a supermajority of the council. If it's approved, parking and utilities would go in first, with the buildings following lot by lot.

Review the Nov. 3 Southlake council agenda → | Read the staff report in the council packet →

🌳 Harriet Creek Ranch Park Is Getting a Redo

Fort Worth is starting to redesign Harriet Creek Ranch Park, the 32-acre neighborhood park on Cowboy Trail north of SH 114, and neighbors have already weighed in. The city has $425,000 for the current phase of improvements.

At an Oct. 22 public input meeting, residents asked for a walking loop (one said walking the neighborhood isn't ideal with the traffic and cars parked on the street), better sight lines through the brush along the creek, and active spaces like a soccer field and a baseball or softball backstop. A bridge over the creek came up too. It was part of the park's 2008 master plan, but the city's project manager said building in the floodplain would take studies and permits that could easily burn through the budget.

Planning is still in the early stages, and construction likely won't start until late 2027 or early 2028. The Fort Worth Report's recap includes the project manager's contact for anyone with ideas or questions.

Read the Fort Worth Report Documenters recap → | See the park's city page →

🗳️ Polls Are Open Until 7 Tonight

It's Election Day, and polls are open from 7 AM to 7 PM. If you're registered in Tarrant County, you can vote at any Vote Center in the county, and the county's elections page lists every location along with current wait times. Registered in Denton County? Denton County Elections has your Election Day locations.

Once polls close, Tarrant County's schedule calls for its first report, early voting results, by 7:15 PM, with updated reports through the night on the county's results page.

Find a Tarrant County Vote Center and wait times → | Follow Tarrant County results tonight → | Denton County Elections →

❤️ Local Favorite: The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque | 3000 TX-114, Trophy Club

Roy Hutchins took his first barbecue job in 1964, at 14, at King's Barbeque in his hometown of McKinney. These days he's back at the pit with his son Wes and grandson Zack, and the Trophy Club spot on State Highway 114 is the original location of The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque.

Ordering works the old-school way: walk up to the meat block, where the crew cuts your order in front of you, then load up at the self-serve sides line. The menu leans on prime brisket, pork belly burnt ends, beef ribs and Texas Twinkies. There are no reservations, it's open daily from 11 AM to 9 PM or until it sells out, and the restaurant suggests getting there at 11 to skip the crowd. It's BYOB, too.

Visit The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque's website → | (682) 237-4100

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