2008-016-ORD-APPROVING AND ADOPTING REVISIONS TO FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP AND FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP LEGEND EXPLANATIONS

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2008-016 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS APPROVING AND ADOPTING REVISIONS TO THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP AND THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP LEGEND EXPLANATIONS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A PENALTY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Section 211.004 of the Local Government Code requires that all zoning regulations must be adopted in accordance with a comprehensive plan and must be designated to lessen congestion in the streets; secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; promote health and the general welfare; provide adequate light and air; prevent the overcrowding of land, avoid undue concentration of population; or facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewers, schools, parks, and other public requirements; and, WHEREAS, on September 6, 2001, the City Council of the City of Paris enacted Ordinance No. 2001-054 which adopted a new Comprehensive Zoning and Land Use Plan for the City of Paris; and, WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission has undertaken a thorough review of the City's comprehensive Zoning and Land Use Plan in order to recommend revisions that would reflect actual land use changes in various areas over the past few years, and provide better guidance for future land use development that logically fits with those land use trends and has additionally developed more comprehensive definitions for the land uses themselves; and, WHEREAS, on April 7, 2008, the Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed and approved proposed changes to the Future Land Use Plan Map and Future Land Use Plan Map Legend Explanations and in accordance with Chapter 213 of the Local Government Code the Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on May 5, 2008; and, WHEREAS, on May 12, 2008, the City Council of the City of Paris held a public hearing to receive input from the citizens of the City of Paris regarding the proposed amendments to the Future Land Use Plan Map and Future Land Use Plan Map Legend Explanations as contained in Exhibit A attached hereto; and, WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt the aforesaid amendments to the Future Land Use Plan Map and the Future Land Use Plan Map Legend Explanations of the Comprehensive Plan, and the same 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 the proposed amendments to the Future Land Use Plan Map and the Future Land Use Plan Map Legend Explanations of the Comprehensive Plan, attached hereto as Exhibit A and made a part hereof, be and they are hereby approved and adopted.