Attorney General Kex Panton urged Collin County leaders to reject an application for a planned Muslim-centric neighborhood with ties to the East Plano Islamic Center.
The letter was sent Tuesday to county commissioners Tuesday and comes after Paxton’s office filed two lawsuits related to The Meadow development in recent months. The project was once called EPIC City.
The state’s chief legal officer asked county leaders to reject a plat application for the project citing ‘the illegal annexation of land’ and other factors.
Representatives for developer Community Capital Partners did not immediately respond to allegations in Paxton’s letter.
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“I am advised that to date you have refused to approve EPIC City’s requested plat application due to its multiple deficiencies and the insufficiency of information provided,” Paxton wrote in the Tuesday letter. “I write today to advise you that issues relating to some of these deficiencies are the subject of active litigation brought by the State of Texas — namely, the composition of the Double R [Municipal Utility District] board of directors and the validity of the purported land annexation designed to facilitate development of the proposed EPIC City project.”
The development is expected to feature more than 1,000 homes, a K-12 faith-based school, a mosque, elderly and assisted living, apartments, clinics, retail shops, a community college, and sports fields built on 402 acres in Collin and Hunt counties, roughly 40 miles northeast of downtown Dallas.
Members of the East Plano Islamic Center formed Community Capital Partners, the for-profit development group overseeing the project.
Paxton’s letter was addressed to all members of the commission, including elected county judge Chris Hill. Hill told The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday that he had not yet received a copy of the letter.
Community Capital Partners submitted their development plat for the project in late December. The county’s engineering department said in early January that the application was incomplete and required additional information.
The attorney general’s request comes after he filed two lawsuits related to the planned development.
Last Month, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A of Hunt and Collin Counties and members affiliated with the board.
He accused the group of actions “that appear designed to evade state oversight and support the illegal East Plano Islamic Center (’EPIC’) real estate development” through improper board appointments and the unlawful expansion of the district’s boundaries.
Municipal utility districts are authorized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support utilities such as water, sanitary sewer, drainage and flood control for planned residential developments within a certain area.
Developers are required to obtain certain permissions from the state commission before construction on the project can begin.
Developer Community Capital Partners had not yet received this permission.
In plans initially submitted to Collin County officials in late 2025, the developer stated that the Double R district would provide sewer services to the site.
The developer and their attorney, Eric Hudson, pushed back against the lawsuit in previous statements to The Dallas Morning News.
The group said it submitted preliminary materials to the county and requests for additional documentation are normal.
Texas-based law firm Winstead has handled the utility district process for more than a year and a half. Issues raised in the lawsuit will be resolved on the record, they said.
In December, Paxton sued the East Plano Islamic Center, Community Capital Partners and others for “engaging in an illegal development scheme that violated Texas securities law.”
Both cases are ongoing.
Gov. Greg Abbott has directed multiple state agencies to investigate EPIC and its affiliated entities. Abbott said in a December social media post that four agencies continue to investigate the planned development.
Paxton is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. He’ll face incumbent John Cornyn in a May runoff. The runoff winner will face the Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico of Austin.
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