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A new single-family housing development is coming to northeast Frisco.
The development, called First Texas Homestead at Collinsbrook, will span just over 124 acres and include 297 homes, according to city documents.
The gist
Frisco City Council unanimously approved an ordinance at a May 5 meeting rezoning the northwest corner of Coit Road and PGA Parkway to a single-family residential designation.
City documents also note the development will be zoned within Prosper ISD’s boundaries.
Council members previously held a public hearing on the zoning change in April and directed staff to prepare an ordinance for final approval.
How we got here
The property was annexed into Frisco’s city limits and zoned agricultural in January, according to city documents.
Frisco’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 in March to recommend approval of the zoning request, with Commissioners Steve Cone and Brian Merrell voting against the proposal due to concerns about the smaller setbacks.
While Frisco’s standard rear setback is 30 feet, the development will be allowed 15-foot setbacks, city documents state.
John Lettelleir, Frisco director of development services, said in March getting the development incorporated into the city has been “about three years in the making.”
Cone said he was concerned about the precedent the development could set, particularly as Frisco nears build out in the coming years.
“I’ve heard a lot of concerns from people about the number of microyards that we have in Frisco,” Cone said. “People would like to see, as Frisco builds out, that we try to avoid the micro-backyards.”
The discussion
At the commission’s March meeting, several commissioners discussed how recent state legislation surrounding property in a city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ, influenced the development negotiations.
An ETJ is an unincorporated area located outside a city's boundaries. Senate Bill 2038, which went into effect in 2023, gives landowners the ability to opt out of a city’s ETJ, meaning future developments would not be subject to the city’s development standards.
"This property owner [or] anybody in the ETJ could request to be removed from the city's ETJ. We have no control over that whatsoever," Lettelleir said. “What the city was doing here is trying to ensure that this came into the city, and we got something that was compatible with our future land use plan."
Commissioner Warren Ruiz described the proposal as “the lesser of two evils.”
“It could have gone a completely different way, so I’m glad that it didn’t go the other way,” Ruiz said. “We could have thousands of apartments right there, and there’s nothing we could’ve done about it.”
One more thing
The development will also sit along a section of PGA Parkway currently being widened to a six-lane divided roadway from Preston Road to Coit Road.
