An ugly dispute in Collin County over a planned residential subdivision serves as a cautionary tale about lack of transparency in local governments,...
Collin County fight signals struggle between growing state and rural dream.An ugly dispute in Collin County over a planned residential subdivision serves as a cautionary tale about lack of transparency in local governments, especially those in the path of North Texas’ building boom.
“This whole thing has been done under the cloak of darkness,” Lindy “Buddy” Pilgrim, the former president of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. and a leader of the residential opposition, told the council.The developer has strong financial ties to the politically powerful Huffines family and is doing business as Restore the Grasslands, an odd name that many residents find misleading.
Parker Mayor Lee Pettle told us in an email that city officials acted as openly as they were able to and that the agreement had been worked out over many weeks of negotiations. She noted that an attorney for the city presented the agreement in open session to residents at the April 23 meeting.Still, given the controversy around this subdivision, the city should have given residents more time to digest the agreement and presented the plan in a well-publicized town hall meeting.
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