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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas <br />Policy Planning Issues <br />The Charrette Workshop was conducted on November 19, 1998. About 50 Paris_ citizens <br />discussed the top-ranked issues in six study groups. They addressed the top-ranked issues from <br />the Focus Session in order to put forward initial policies and "action steps" for the future of the <br />Paris community. <br />The following is a synthesis of the key issues identified at the Focus Session and the results of <br />the Policy Planning Charrette. Policy statements and action steps to achieve those policies <br />formulated by the Paris residents during the two workshops are reported below the applicable <br />key issue. <br />LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT <br />1. Focus SESS1oN IsstrE: Long Range Master Plan Policy <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Develop a 10- to 25-Year Regional Roadway Improvement Plan. <br />➢ Relocate U.S. Highway 82 around the south side of the City with a four-lane <br />improved highway utilizing the existing Loop 286 corridor. <br />➢ Improve U.S. Highway 271 south to four lanes in the next 1-5 years. <br />➢ Realign U.S. Highway 82 around Cox Airfield in the next 10-15 years <br />➢ Realign U.S. Highway 271 to create a new eastern loop around Paris east of Reno in <br />the next 20-25 years. <br />➢ Coordinate efforts with TxDOT. <br />Stabilize Existing Neighborhoods. <br />➢ Create "reinvestment zones" to encourage renovation, redevelopment and infill <br />development and other reinvestments in existing neighborhoods. <br />➢ Place equal emphasis on redevelopment/maintenance of existing development as that <br />placed on annexed areas. <br />➢ Develop funding options for neighborhood stabilization plans. <br />Plan Ahead to a) Accommodate Newly Annexed Areas and b) Continue Annexing <br />Growth Areas. ➢ Provide multiple utility options for annexed areas including gas and electric services. <br />➢ Provide additional green spaces by acquiring new parkland including areas to the <br />north between U.S. Highway 271 and 195, and west of Paris South of U.S. Highway <br />82. <br />➢ Improve Infrastructure to accommodate annexation. <br />2. FoCUS SESSioN ISSUE: Zoning Policy <br />CHARRETT'E RESPONSES: <br />Enhance and Enforce Zoning Regulations. <br />➢ Better define and distinguish residential districts. <br />➢ Establish distinct commercial zoning districts and medical/office districts. <br />➢ Designate Commercial and Industrial expansion areas in newly annexed territory. <br />➢ Create more definitive buffer zone standards. <br />S:U8288\WPC\finul repun 2-0I.Joc 10 B WR <br />