Government
BY SHELBIE HAMILTON
Thousands of homes slated for Honey Creek development
Honey Creek, a municipal management district in north McKinney, will include over 2.5 square miles of land and as many as 10,500 homes. McKinney City Council members unanimously approved a development agreement for the project as well as related zoning and annexation requests at a Sept. 17 meeting. “Honey Creek is a big deal,” council member Patrick Cloutier said. “Around 1980, some City Council passed Stonebridge Ranch. This is going to be bigger. This is going to be ... amazing and some of the most beautiful land in the city of McKinney.” The gist The Honey Creek development, an initiative by Dallas-based Republic Property Group, will span over 1,650 acres, according to city documents. The approval implements zoning for the district, which is located west of US 75 and north of US 380, near Erwin Park. The zoning implemented includes uses such as
single-family and multifamily residential, retail, office, parkland and civic land. “The existing zoning on the property is actually very similar to what is being proposed tonight,” Director of Planning Jennifer Arnold said at the
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The development agreement includes planned land dedications for uses such as a water storage tank, a fire station and parks. The agreement also plans for 50 affordable homes that will be built and sold to the city’s Community Land Trust. Other obligations outlined in the agreement include the developer constructing various water and sewer lines throughout the property, as well as construction of various roadways including an extension of Laud Howell Parkway. Looking ahead Jim Henry, senior vice president of community
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operations for Republic Property Group, said at the Aug. 27 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that the development firm would begin right- of-way acquisition and the design for the Laud Howell Parkway extension could be complete by the end of 2027, he said. The first neighborhood in the district would begin development in late 2025 or early 2026, Henry said.
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