San Marcos City Council terminated its agreements with a 1,786-acre development, located east of San Marcos in Caldwell County.

What it means

The Cotton Center Development is now released from the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction and wastewater service area.

This means San Marcos will no longer have any say on the project.

Extraterritorial jurisdiction is the unincorporated area around a city where the city can still enforce some regulations, such as subdivisions, to allow for the planning of future growth.

How we got here

The city originally entered into a development and consent agreement for the development in 2016. Council documents show the original agreement between the city and Walton Development was amended in June 2024.

According to city documents, the vote from cou

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