2019-025 - Amending Ordinance No. 1315 Subdivision Regulations to Incorporate the Master Thoroughfare Plan

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ORDINANCE NO. 2019-025 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, AMENDING CITY ORDINANCE NO. 1315, SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS OF THE CITY OF PARIS, AS HERETOFORE AMENDED, TO INCORPORATE THE MASTER THOROUGHFARE PLAN AS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, by city Ordinance No. 1315, the City Council of the City of Paris enacted a Subdivision Ordinance to regulate subdivision and development of land located inside the corporate city limits and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Paris, Texas; and, WHEREAS, these subdivision regulations have been updated and revised over the years as state law has changed and development trends have evolved; and, WHEREAS, heretofore, the City Council adopted a Master Thoroughfare Plan; and WHEREAS, in 2018, City Council adopted a Comprehensive Plan Update (the "CPU"), which recommends connecting the master thoroughfare plan to the subdivision regulations to ensure the city's authority to enforce right-of-way dedications and other needed improvements for plan implementation; and WHEREAS, at its July 1, 2019 meeting, after conducting a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission considered the amendments to the subdivision regulations set forth herein and made formal recommendation to the City Council to approve the requested amendments; and WHEREAS, at the July 22, 2019 meeting of the Paris City Council, the City Council, after conducting a public hearing, and having considered the recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the testimony and evidence introduced at said public hearing, found and determined that the proposed changes to the city's subdivision regulations ordinance, as set forth herein, are in the best interest of the city and its citizens and should be approved. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That City Ordinance No. 1315, subdivision regulations, Section VIII, "General Requirements," shall be amended to read as follows in its entirety: