25 - Master Thoroughfare Plan Amendment

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Item No. 25 TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro -Tem and City Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Andrew Mack, AICP Director Planning & Community Development SUBJECT: Conduct a public hearing and take action regarding the petition of the City of Paris for a Master Thoroughfare Plan Amendment as adopted on October 8, 2018 as follows: • C-8 to be amended in part • C-8 (a) to be added • C-8 (b) to be added • C-8 (c) to be added • C-8 (d) to be added • A-8 to be amended in part DATE: January 23, 2023 BACKGROUND At its 10/3/22 and 11/7/22 meetings the Planning & Zoning Commission held discussions regarding updating and amendments to the Master Thoroughfare Plan. The last action to be approved by the P&Z and Council was to delete the planned future arterial roadway (4 lane highway) shown between FM 195 and Lamar Avenue (TH 82). It 'was deemed unrealistic as originally drawn in relation what has been constructed over several decades. Since this time Staff has continued to work on analyzing areas in the Northeast Quadrant of the City where continued new development interest is occurring. This area studied includes proposed revisions for the area between Main Street North (TH 271) and the Stillhouse Road area midpoint between FM 195. A slight revision is proposed with the future arterial roadway A-8 that would intersect with Lake Crook Road to better align with the intersection and continuing straight East until its intersection with Stillhouse Road. This would remove impacts on large lot constructed home sites in this vicinity. Further analysis will need to be conducted over the coming year to determine how best to continue this future route further beyond to the East portion of the City. There is also a series of slight adjustments shown to the collector roadways shown through this area C-8 a thru d. In this regard, an initial draft map was produced for the hearing notices that was dated 12/15/22. Since that time a revision was completed to the drawing which was the previous map that was considered for the hearing at the P&Z meeting on 1/3/23. A portion of this roadway, now known as NL Parkway has recently been Page 1 of 2