Paxton Urges Collin County to Reject Muslim-Centered EPIC City Development

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Collin County commissioners Tuesday urging them to reject any plat applications for the Muslim-oriented master-planned development known as EPIC City, a 402-acre project in unincorporated Collin and Hunt counties that its developer has since rebranded as The Meadow.

The letter arrived after the county had already moved to block the project. Collin County denied a plat application in January from Community Capital Partners, the for-profit development group formed by members of the East Plano Islamic Center. County Judge Chris Hill posted on social media that the application, submitted by the developer in late December, was incomplete and lacked proper documentation. Hill told The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday that he had not yet received a copy of Paxton's letter, even though it was addressed to all members of the commission.

Paxton has now filed two lawsuits related to the project in Collin County. The most recent targets Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A of Hunt and Collin Counties and its board members, alleging the district was improperly transferred to a new, ineligible board of directors in September. According to the AG's office, that same board immediately approved adding approximately 400 acres to the district at the request of Community Capital Partners, a move Paxton says was designed to circumvent state scrutiny by folding the development into an existing MUD rather than creating a new one subject to state review.

"I will not allow individuals to cheat the system to advance an illegal development and destroy beautiful Texas land," Paxton said in a statement from his office. "If EPIC City's developers or operatives are attempting to illegally take over local governmental structures in North Texas, my office will do everything in our power to stop their scheme."

The lawsuit seeks to remove the individual defendants from the Double R MUD board, invalidate what Paxton's office calls an illegal annexation, and hold board members accountable for what the AG characterizes as unlawful actions. An earlier suit, filed in December 2025, also targeted the project. The initial legal action came roughly six weeks after Paxton wrote to the Texas Securities Board about violations his office had uncovered during an investigation into the development, asking the board to review those findings before he proceeded with litigation.

The planned community near Josephine, roughly 40 miles northeast of downtown Dallas, would include more than 1,000 homes, a K-12 faith-based school, a mosque, a community college, elderly and assisted living facilities, apartments, clinics, retail shops, and sports fields. Community Capital Partners describes the project as still in the early stages of planning and years away from construction.

A spokesperson for Community Capital Partners pushed back on County Judge Hill's public statements about the denied plat, saying routine requests for additional documentation do not warrant a county judge singling out a private development by name. "What is not normal is the County Judge issuing a public notice singling out a private development by name when no vote has occurred and no legal determination has been made," the spokesperson said.

The project has drawn sustained criticism from Republican officials in Texas, with some GOP candidates accusing the development of implementing Sharia law and creating no-go zones for non-Muslims ahead of the March 3 primary. Community Capital Partners has repeatedly denied those characterizations. Paxton, himself a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, previously said in March of last year that his office was investigating potential consumer protection violations related to the development.