Collin County will show residents its latest design for the southeast leg of the Collin County Outer Loop at an open house later this month, the next step before commissioners hold a public hearing on the project's environmental document.
The meeting covers Segments 2 and 4, about 14 miles of planned freeway running from County Road 656 in Farmersville south to the Rockwall County line. It is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the cafeteria of Leland Edge Middle School, 620 N. FM 1138, in Nevada.
Parking and the cafeteria door are on the school's north side, the county's notice says.
There will be no formal presentation at the school. Display boards will be set up and county representatives will answer questions. The same material, including a recorded video, display boards and a map where people can leave comments, will be posted at CCOL-SE.com from Oct. 27 through Nov. 11.
What is on the table
The notice says the county picked a preferred alignment in 2025 and has since refined the roadway design and studied how the road would affect property, floodplains and development that is planned or expected. Once comments close, the county expects to take its Local Environmental Document to a Commissioners Court public hearing "in the coming months."
The project website describes the corridor as a future freeway with 500 feet of right-of-way, built in phases as traffic grows. The county intends to buy the land for the corridor ahead of any construction so development does not crowd the route.
The study began in mid-2024 by revisiting an alignment first identified in 2009 and 2010; the site says that between 2021 and early 2024, more than 10,000 acres in the southeast part of the county were developed or slated for development.
The county's case for the road rests on growth. The project site cites slightly more than 1.1 million residents in 2020 and a projection of more than 2.1 million by 2050. It also reports that daily volumes on some of the area's farm-to-market roads more than doubled between 2015 and 2023, and that crashes causing injury or death rose 69 percent from 2016 to 2024.
