Hickory Creek Voters Keep Their EDC, Reject 1.75% Sales Tax

If you live in Hickory Creek, your tax bill stays exactly where it is. The town's Economic Development Corporation is still open for business. The sales tax line on your receipt? Unchanged.

Voters rejected Proposition A on Tuesday, Nov. 3 — the ballot measure that would have dissolved the Hickory Creek EDC and created a new local sales and use tax at 1.75% at the same time. With all precincts reporting, 58.83% voted against it: 1,649 votes to 1,154 in favor.

Not a close call.

The pairing inside the single proposition mattered. The ballot language tied the termination of the Hickory Creek Economic Development Corporation directly to adopting the new sales and use tax rate, so voters couldn't take one piece without the other. Whatever residents thought of the corporation itself, enough of them decided the swap wasn't worth it.

That result looks different from what happened elsewhere in the county the same night. Bartonville, Justin, and Lake Dallas each passed their own sales tax measures — structurally a different ask than what Hickory Creek faced, which was a new tax at a higher rate tied to eliminating an existing entity.

For residents and anyone shopping in Hickory Creek, nothing changes at the register. The EDC continues under its current structure. If the town council wants to revisit either the EDC's future or a local sales tax, that path runs through another election, and nothing on the public record currently schedules one.