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Prosper plans for mixed-use, multifamily areas ahead of 2027 tollway expansion

As Prosper prepares for its next phase of development, town officials are working to solidify their vision for how land along the Dallas North Tollway will develop over the next few years.

Breaking it down: The proposed standards split Prosper’s 3 miles of tollway into seven districts with specific future land use plans and future zoning designations. The tollway’s current zoning is a “patchwork of varying and inconsistent development controls,” while the proposed standards would help create a more cohesive vision to guide future projects, according to town documents.

Zooming in: Meeting documents also note the town may use economic development incentives for “initial key developments that help the developer achieve these goals and provide a change in the marketplace,” such as in the subdistricts with designated mixed-use areas.

Quote of note: “To any developer, any landowner that’s looking at this, this really started with coming out to try and represent the will of our neighbors,” Mayor Pro Tem Amy Bartley said. 

 
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Bojangles to open this summer in Celina

Bojangles is opening this year in Celina, a restaurant representative said in an email. 

On the menu: Bojangles serves chicken dishes, including chicken sandwiches and chicken tenders, according to its website. The restaurant also serves breakfast, including the chicken biscuit sandwich and the sausage, egg and cheese biscuit sandwich.

  • 3615 S. Preston Road, Celina
 

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Movie night

Pizza and wine pairing

March 20, 7-9 p.m.
Frisco

March 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Grapevine

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Margarita Festival

Stained glass workshop

March 21, noon
Northlake

March 22, noon-2 p.m.
Denton

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Texas families now have until March 31 to apply for education savings accounts, judge rules

Texas families now have an additional two weeks to apply for the state’s new education savings account program, a Houston federal judge ruled March 17.

What's happening: U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ordered the state comptroller’s office to extend the application deadline to March 31 over concerns that no Islamic private schools had been greenlit to accept state ESA funds. In two lawsuits filed in early March, four Muslim parents said they felt deterred from applying for education savings accounts because the Islamic schools they send their children to were not among the 2,200 schools authorized to participate in the program.

Parents previously had until 11:59 p.m. March 17 to apply for the program.

Latest update: In a March 17 news release, the comptroller’s office confirmed that applications would be accepted through March 31 in compliance with the judge’s order.

Over 229,000 students had applied for the $1 billion program as of March 17, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said. The state will use a need- and income-based lottery system to determine who is accepted.

 

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