Paxton urges Collin County to block EPIC City development plans
Paxton is pressing Collin County to stop EPIC City, a 402-acre plan near Josephine for 1,000 homes, a mosque and school. No development application had been filed as of March 31.
Ken Paxton has urged the Collin County Commissioners Court to reject any further development of the 402-acre EPIC City project. The proposal, spread across Collin and Hunt counties, sits outside city limits and Josephine’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, so development regulation falls to Collin County.
The county’s March 31 agenda update said the land was purchased in September 2024 and that Community Capital Partners planned a project with 1,000 homes, a K-12 school, a mosque, a senior living center and retail space. As of that date, no application for development had been submitted to Collin County, leaving the first formal county review still ahead of the project.
Commissioners had already faced a packed public hearing on March 31 over EPIC City. Most residents who spoke at that hearing opposed the plan, while county officials were left to weigh the pressure that a large project could place on roads, drainage, water and sewer capacity, school enrollment, emergency services and nearby property values in a fast-growing part of North Texas.
Paxton’s letter came after a lawsuit from the attorney general’s office seeking to invalidate what it called the illegal annexation of land intended for the project. His office has also sued East Plano Islamic Center over an alleged illegal land development scheme, sued municipal utility district entities and board members over their support for the development, and sued EPIC City affiliates over alleged Texas Open Meetings Act violations in an attempted takeover of a municipal utility district.
On April 1, 2025, Gov. Greg Abbott said EPIC City may not begin construction and directed Texas Rangers to open a criminal investigation into East Plano Islamic Center-related activity. By September 2025, a religious discrimination investigation tied to the development had been resolved and closed, and by November the project had been renamed The Meadow. A later filing in Collin County came in January 2026, and Hunt County officials later denied plat approval for the project.
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