Travis County District Court Judge Amy Meachum, a Democrat, ruled on Tuesday that the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) must greenlight the construction of a 400-acre Muslim community near Dallas, Texas.
The development, formerly marketed as EPIC City and now rebranded as The Meadow, will potentially be located in unincorporated areas of Collin and Hunt counties near the small town of Josephine, roughly 40 minutes northeast of Dallas.
The developers are planning to build more than 1,000 homes, apartment buildings, a K–12 Islamic school, a mosque, health clinics, retail stores, assisted living facilities, and other community amenities on the massive site.
Community Capital Partners, the developer founded by members of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), one of North Texas’s largest mosques, sued the TWC after the agency allegedly failed to honor the 2025 settlement and review the project’s updated housing policies.
Judge Meachum’s order requires the TWC to “acknowledge, evaluate, or advance the fair housing policies” outlined in that agreement. She also denied the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, allowing it to proceed.
Imran Chaudhary, president of Community Capital Partners, celebrated the ruling in a statement to The Dallas Morning News, saying, “This ruling confirms what we have maintained from the beginning — that Community Capital Partners has been willing, ready, and committed to following Texas law at every step. We have done nothing wrong, and this decision reflects that.”
The ruling drew immediate criticism from state leaders who have repeatedly warned that the project raises serious fair housing concerns because it is being marketed exclusively to Muslims, potentially violating the federal law by discriminating based on religion.
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Texas to approve EPIC City’s 402-acre Islamic community in the Dallas area. The community promises to be a Mecca for thousands of Muslims who want to live under Sharia Law in Texas. pic.twitter.com/6WuazNkWs2
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Governor Greg Abbott has been vocal in his opposition, previously stating the project “will never see the light of day” due to ongoing state and federal investigations.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed multiple lawsuits targeting the development, including one against the Double R Municipal Utility District accused of being unlawfully restructured to fast-track the project.
Paxton has described actions by certain board members as “illegal and void.”
The Texas Workforce Commission called Judge Meachum’s decision “flawed” and said it “overlooks substantial evidence.”
TWC officials confirmed the development “remains under active investigation with our federal partners at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development” and announced they are taking immediate steps to appeal.
Judge Meachum, a Democrat elected in heavily liberal Travis County in 2011, has a pattern of issuing rulings that block Republican efforts and policies.
In 2022, Meachum repeatedly sided with the ACLU and Lambda Legal by granting temporary injunctions against Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate parents providing sex change hormones and procedures to “transgender” children as potential child abuse.
Meachum ruled that the order exceeded the governor’s authority and was unconstitutional, at one point issuing a statewide injunction that the Texas Supreme Court later narrowed.
More recently, in April, Meachum blocked emergency rule changes to Texas’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program by the state Comptroller, ruling the executive branch had overstepped its authority and harmed minority-owned businesses.
While Tuesday’s ruling is a setback for those seeking to block the Islamic city, the project still can’t proceed just yet. Along with the TWC appeal, there is an ongoing HUD investigation, separate utility district litigation with a trial set for November, and potential additional state-level challenges.
No construction permits have been issued yet, and Texans are continuing to fight against it.
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