{"id":242095,"date":"2026-04-09T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:40:08","slug":"murphy-exits-fight-over-disputed-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242095\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy exits fight over disputed development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle to stop a densely-populated development between Parker and Murphy \u2014 which could include its own wastewater treatment plant \u2014 is continuing. But the city of Murphy has withdrawn from the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the city continues to oppose the creation of Collin County MUD No. 7, it no longer wishes to participate as a party in these proceedings,\u201d the city said in a March 18 filing with the State Office of Administrative Hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, Parker and individual protestants have opposed the 103-acre Restore the Grasslands (RTG) development since it was planned in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When neither city agreed to provide sewer service, RTG won permission from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to build a wastewater treatment plant that could dump up to 200,000 gallons of treated effluent into Maxwell Creek every day.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Murphy Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle to stop a densely-populated development between Parker and Murphy \u2014 which could include its own wastewater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-242095","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\/242095","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=242095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}