Carrolyn Moebius and Buddy Pilgrim of Communities & Creeks United brief local residents on the latest delay in approving a disputed development between the cities of Parker and Murphy.
Opponents of a new subdivision have won more time to outline their objections. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality TCEQ) has sent the application to create Collin County Municipal Utility District (MUD) No. 7 back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).
An administrative law judge ruled last year that the petition must be reposted because the name of the new property owner, Restore the Grasslands (RTG), was not on the application.
The reposting allowed 53 new local protestants to be added to the group already opposed to building a new residential development on 101 acres between Parker and Murphy.
The TCEQ’s executive director and the Office of Public Interest Counsel both recommended the case be referred to SOAH for another contested case hearing, and that’s what the commission did at a Thursday, May 22, meeting in Austin.
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