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Regular Council Meeting September 12, 2022 Page 3 Block 351, Lot PT of 8, 72.262 acres, City of Paris, Block 352, Lot 6 Block 351, Lot PT of 8, 91.627 acres, City of Paris, Block 351, Lot PT of 9, 19.2693 acres, located in the 3300 Block of Jefferson Road. Planning Director Andrew Mack explained that he and the city engineer met earlier that day with the developer. He said the information he was bringing forward tonight was different than what went out in the agenda packet last week. He said the information supplied by the developer contained a lot of deviation from the City's codes. Mr. Mack recommended that the public hearing be reopened to allow the developer to come forward. A Motion to continue the public hearing was made by Council Member Knox and seconded by Council Member Pilgrim. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. Developer Andrew Spaulding said after meeting with Mr. Mack and Mr. Donan, they had agreed to scale back some of their requests, and came to an agreement on three of the requests. He explained the changes as moving to 1) SF -3 to allow 50 ft by 100 ft, lot sizes and dropping off the SF -2, 2) 15 foot set -backs front set back on all homes within the PD and 3) Asphalt streets with concrete curb and gutters. Mr. Mack recommended approval of the ordinance with the three deviations stated by Mr. Spaulding. City Manager Grayson Path said staff was recommending closing the public hearing and bring back to them an ordinance at the next available meeting. Mr. Path explained they could not approve an ordinance because it was not in front of them tonight. A Motion to close the public hearing and have staff bring back an ordinance setting out the deviations that were agreed upon for Mr. Spaulding's request, was made by Council Member Pilgrim and seconded by Council Member Moore Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. 10. Conduct a public hearing on the City's proposed tax rate for FY 2022-2023 City Manager Grayson Path said there were three items before them, two of which were public hearings. He said this hearing was required by law and had been called by the City Council on August 22"d. Mr. Path explained the property valuations had been going up and the tax rate had been going down. He said the combined proposed tax rate was $.44 next year because the M&O tax rate was decreasing while the tax rate was increasing. He said this was a decrease from the $.45 tax rate. Mayor Portugal opened the public hearing and asked for anyone wishing to speak about this item, to please come forward. With no one speaking, Mayor Portugal closed the public hearing. 11. Conduct a public hearing on the City Manager's proposed budget for FY2022-2023 Mr. Path said this was the final required public hearing prior to adoption of the budget.