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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Planning Process • lot coverage; and • bulk of structures. Zoning regulations must be adopted in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of the Zoning Ordinance is to: (1) lessen congestion in the streets; (2) secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; (3) promote health and the general welfare; (4) provide adequate light and air; (5) prevent the overcrowding of land; (6) avoid undue concentration of population; or (7) facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewers, schools, parks, and other public requirements. According to the Texas Civil Statutes, Zoning regulations must be uniform for each class or kind of building in a district, but the regulations may vary from district to district. The regulations shall be adopted with reasonable consideration, among other things, for the character of each district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, with a view of conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land in the municipality. A majority of the governing body of a municipality may adopt or amend a Comprehensive Plan at any time, after public hearing. The policies of a Comprehensive Plan may only be implemented by ordinances duly adopted by the municipality and shall not constitute land use or zoning regulations or establish zoning district boundaries. SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS Subdivision regulations are another legislative tool to implement the Comprehensive Plan by guiding the subdivision and development of land. Subdivision regulations provide coordination of otherwise unrelated plans as well as internal design of individual sites. The general purposes of the subdivision regulations are to: • protect and promote the public health, safety, convenience, comfort and general welfare; • guide the future growth and development; • provide for the proper location and width of streets, roads, building lines, open space and recreation and to avoid congestion of population; • protect and conserve the value of land, buildings and improvements and to minimize conflicts among the uses of land and buildings; • establish reasonable standards of design for subdivision in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; • insure that public facilities, including roads, water, sewer and drainage facilities, are adequate to serve the needs of proposed subdivisions. S:\95288\WPQlina1 rcpon 2-01.dWc - 5 u..