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WHEREAS, additional wireless communications facilities are required to provide quality communication services to meet the growing needs of the public and businesses for wireless communication and should be accommodated in the City; and, WHEREAS , the City Council has previously adopted Ordinance Number 2001-048, which added a New Section 28 to the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Paris entitled “Regulation of Wireless Telecommunications Towers and Facilities”, thereby implementing a comprehensive regulatory scheme for regulating the location of, siting of, spacing for, and technical standards associated with the construction and erection of wireless communication facilities; and, WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend and revise said regulations to accommodate NOW, both the needs of the wireless companies and the needs of the citizens of the City of Paris; THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That Section 28-104 (b), entitled “Permitted Areas”, of Section 28 of Ordinance 1710, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Paris, shall be and is hereafter amended to remove Agricultural zoned areas as areas for potential siting of wireless communication facilities, said amended Section 28-104 (b) to read as follows: “Sec. 28-104 Wireless Communication Facilities Prohibited. *** (b) Permitted areas. From and after the effective date of this Ordinance, new WCF’s shall be permitted only in areas bearing a zoning designation of Commercial (C), Light Industrial (LI), or Heavy Industrial (HI); the siting of new WCF’s in areas zoned other than as designated herein, including residential districts (SF-1), (SF-2) (SF-3), (2F), (MF- 1), (MF-2), Planned Development Districts (PD), Agricultural (A), and other non- commercial and non-industrial districts, including Parking Districts (P), Office Districts (O), Neighborhood Service Districts (NS), General Retail Districts (GR), Central Area (CA), and Public Lands and Institutes (PL&I), shall be and is hereafter prohibited.” Section 3. That Section 28-106 (c), entitled “General Requirements,” of Section 28 of Ordinance 1710, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Paris, shall be and is hereafter amended to revise the setback of towers located on properties in areas zoned Commercial, Light Industrial, and Heavy Industrial, such amended Section 28-106 (c) to read as follows: -2-