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undisturbed retirement years. She is concerned about the possibility of decreasing the value of her property, noise, air pollution caused by constant movement of heavy equipment, trucks and cargo in the area. Briley states workers and heavy equipment could cause leaks and a possible explosion of the gas pipe line near her home. She further states there is only a chain link fence that currently separates the two properties. Public hearing declared closed. Carla Easton, City Engineer brought the Briley property up on the monitor. Michael Paris with the PEDC states the area down where Briley is located may be cleaned up a bit and used as a lay down yard. Sherlain Jackson. 2150 Walker Street, Paris, Texas states she is concerned about the noise and increased traffic as well as people can become destructive. Jackson is not in favor of this petition. Chairman Flowers states the existing zoning is Light Industrial and allows the lay down yard as is, therefore, if the request was denied it would not prohibit ASW from coming. These issues are still going to be issues no matter what happens here because the current zoning allows it. Motion was made by Sims Norment, seconded by Keith Flowers to approve the zoning change. Motion carried 5-1. with James O'Bryan in opposition. 6. Public hearing to consider and take action regarding the petition of 903 Development Co LLC - Chris Fitzgerald for a change in zoning from a One -Family Dwelling District (SF2) to a Multiple -Family Dwelling District (MFI), in the City of Paris, Block 259, Lot 16, 21, 33-A, being located at 650 26th NE. Godwin states there are other duplex uses in this area, including a number immediately contiguous to this site on the south. Other neighboring properties to the north and west are existing single family homes. There are also church and storage uses. The future land use plan indicates the southern half of this site should be medium density residential and the northern half low density. The drawing of the dividing line between these densities, though important, is somewhat arbitrary, so we see no significant issues with approving this request and making the entire site a single land use type—in this case MF- 1.