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a problem with the drive through. He is concerned about future uses. If the property is sold, a drive through could be a selling point. He further stated that this is too much building to put on that lot. Also, with regard to street access, P&Z has that right under planned development, so we can approve or deny the site plan. Mr. Hayter also expressed concern that, by doing this, we are condemning the neighborhood to a commercial use. If traffic on Collegiate is problem, it goes back to the building being to big for this lot. Mr. Fendley asked if they could designate the drive access as private to keep through traffic down to a minium. Lisa Wright stated that you can designate it anything you want; however, we cannot control traffic on a private drive. Reeves Hayter asked the Chans is was not possible to turn the building and move the rear parking to the in front, and Louis Yates stated that the building was too large to allow for that. Curtis Fendley said that we approved it already, and if the Council doesn't want to approve it, they should just deny it instead of sending it back to P&Z for us to deny. If we start doing this, we will do it on every item. Motion was made by Curtis Fendley, seconded by Bobby Myers, to approve the site plan. Motion carried 4-3. 9. Consideration of and action on the Preliminary Plat of Lot 1, Block 1, Petco Plaza 313 Addition, being number 3900 Lamar Avenue. Motion was made by Curtis Fendley, seconded by Bobby Myers, to approve the plat subject to the City Engineer's recommendation. Motion carried 7-0. 11. Discussion of and possible action on establishing development standards for the City of Paris. Lisa Wright advised the Commission that she was providing a sample of the design standards from Greenville just to give an example of some of the things cities are doing. She stated that it has been an issue recently because she and Shawn Napier, as well as P&Z and the Council, have had no guidance on handling the more intricate details on planned development properties. She reminded the Commission what Mr. Yates had just said about the Chans meeting all the codes. She stated that this meant only that they included on their site plan all the items from a checklist of what site plans must have; however, this checklist has nothing to do with street access, building appearance, neighborhood impact, etc. She said she and Shawn could use their own taste to handle these, but that would be subjective and unfair. She recommended that now would be a good time to look at these since the Code Enforcement Task Force was in full swing. The consensus ofthe Commission was thatthe City really needed to consider adopting something along these lines so that we could establish how we want our community to look. Reeves Hayter stated he would rather put this on a future agenda, because we need to put the Comprehensive Plan and mobile home ordinance first. He said we are behind on the objectives we originally set, and we don't want to keep getting further behind. Brad Archer stated this is important, and we're so far behind other cities that we need to do something soon. Curtis Fendley stated it will affect what the community looks like in the next 50 years, so we need to look at this carefully. 12. The meeting adjourned at 6:18 p.m. APPROVED THIS 3RD DAY OF DECEMBER, 2007 Reeves Hayter, Chairman