{"id":212816,"date":"2026-03-20T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:35:12","slug":"attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-tro-and-stops-rogue-municipal-utility-district-from-acting-to-support-the-east-plano-islamic-center-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212816\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures TRO and Stops Rogue Municipal Utility District From Acting to Support the East Plano Islamic Center Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary restraining order (\u201cTRO\u201d) that stops Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A of Hunt and Collin Counties (\u201cDouble R MUD\u201d) from taking any substantive action at its scheduled meeting tomorrow, Friday, March 20. Among other actions stopped, the TRO prevents Double R MUD\u2019s board of directors from directing the activities and operations of the MUD, including accepting or appointing new directors. The MUD and its purported directors are also restrained from taking up or otherwise considering or acting upon any agenda item that was put forth for tomorrow\u2019s scheduled meeting\u2014unless it falls under extremely limited circumstances related to ongoing litigation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The TRO follows a <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW58369073 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-municipal-utility-district-and-board-their-unlawful-actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lawsuit<\/a> by Attorney General Paxton against Double R MUD and its purported officers for taking over an existing MUD and simultaneously expanding that MUD to support the East Plano Islamic Center (\u201cEPIC\u201d) development known as \u201cEPIC City.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MUDs have the power to impose taxes on Texas citizens and are subject to legal requirements, but Double R MUD engaged in highly unusual activity in September 2025. In an apparent effort to allow EPIC City developers to avoid state oversight, it appears the developers engineered the takeover of an inactive, existing MUD\u2014rather than engaging in the process to create an entirely new one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meeting scheduled for tomorrow could further the scheme that was orchestrated at the September 2025 meeting, which is why Attorney General Paxton sought and successfully obtained a TRO. The TRO temporarily freezes Double R MUD from any concrete action until a scheduled Temporary Injunction hearing later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis TRO is a win for the rule of law. Allowing Double R MUD to meet in this way would have only furthered its illegal scheme to support EPIC City,\u201d said Attorney General Paxton. \u201cMy office will continue to work tirelessly to stop the illegal EPIC City scheme, and anyone who has broken the law will be held accountable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To read the TRO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/press\/M%20TRO.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary restraining order (\u201cTRO\u201d) that stops Double R Municipal Utility District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-212816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}