2018-032 Attachment-Comprehensive Plan Update

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SECTION 16: THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, A CLOSING NOTE The comprehensive plan should represent a composite of all the land use elements: residential areas, recreation facilities, environmental considerations, community facilities, commercial and industrial areas, thoroughfares, and supportive urban design considerations. A prime objective of the plan is to achieve a balance of land uses that will economically, physically, and socially benefit those who live and work in Paris. Thus, to achieve this balance of land uses, each of the above elements should propose a general plan for a specific land use type. In turn, each element should be combined to from a general plan of land use that will serve to guide the long-range land development of the entire planning area as shown on the Future Land Use Plan map within this Paris Comprehensive Plan document. Preparers and users of the Comprehensive Plan should keep in mind both the following limitations and purposes of the plan: The Comprehensive Plan is NOT: - The municipal zoning ordinance; - Any other ordinance that regulates the use of the land; - A rigid unchanging plan or statement concerning land use, growth, and development; or, - The final answer to the problems of the future. The Comprehensive Plan IS: - Based upon present knowledge and goals; - Flexible so that it can be changed when the Paris Planning and Zoning Commission, City Council and/or other municipal officials and citizens seethe need for such change; - A basis for making rational decisions, but does not replace the decision making process; - A guide that can aid Paris in implementing a sound growth -management and growth - inducing program; and, - A component of the on-going planning process that recognizes that sound city planning and zoning pay for themselves many times over—in terms of cost-effectiveness and the timely and efficient use of public and private resources. 37