10 - 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update

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Item No. 10 memorandum TO: Mayor & City Council John Godwin, City Manager FROM: Alan Efrussy, AICP, City Planning Manager SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 2018 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DATE: September 28, 2018 BACKGROUND: The City of Paris has a history of comprehensive plans spanning a period of over 100 years. The latest and currently adopted plan is the 2001 Comprehensive Plan. In 2008, the city council updated and adopted the Paris Future Land Use Plan Map and the Plan Map Legend Explanations; the remainder of the 2001 Comprehensive Plan remains intact and adopted. Well -accepted city planning practice is for comprehensive plans to be generally reviewed annually, with potential for substantial updates every three to five years as situations warrant. It has been ten years since the future land use plan map and the plan map definitions have been updated, and 17 years since Paris' full comprehensive plan has been adopted and except for the future plan map and its definitions, has not been reviewed or updated. Therefore, the project described herein addresses the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Update, for the purposes of (1) creating an updated comprehensive plan document to support as appropriate the 2001 Comprehensive Plan recommendations that remain relevant, and (2) to make new and reinforce previous recommendations that will strengthen the implementation process of the city's comprehensive plan program and (3) to address situations and conditions regarding differing physical conditions in Paris that have occurred during the past decade and beyond. STATUS OF ISSUE: A. 2018, ppPlan Update 12reJ aration and goal: A fundamental principle that guided the 2018 plan update is the recognition that much of the 2001 plan remains highly relevant today. Therefore, the goal was to prepare a document in 2018 that was not the "full" or traditional Comprehensive Plan that exemplified the previous Paris comprehensive plans. Rather, the 2018 update is characterized by very current references to certain components of the 2001 plan, descriptions of present situations, and supported with up-to-date text, and graphics.