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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas <br />Policy Planning Issues <br />➢ Provide for urban centers. <br />➢ Develop standards for salvage yards and mobile home developments. <br />➢ Uniformly enforce enhanced regulations and improve procedures. <br />3. FoCUS SESSIoN IssuE: Update Urban Design Standards <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Create More Stringent Urban Design Standards. <br />➢ Develop stringent guidelines for landscaping, signage, and utility placement. <br />➢ Make Site Plan Reviews more stringent to help ensure quality development. <br />➢ Integrate defined mobile home districts with strict mobile home development <br />standards and specific "beautification" requirements. <br />Develop Separate Stabilization and Historic District Standards. <br />➢ Encourage restoration and improvement of existing housing through the use of <br />incentives. <br />➢ Target historic residential neighborhoods <br />➢ Encourage downtown stabilization with residential development in loft apartments. <br />4. Focus SESSioN IssuE: Open Spaces/Parks and Recreation <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Create additional recreation opportunities. <br />➢ Fill recreational voids in residential neighborhoods. <br />➢ Provide regional parks in newly annexed areas. <br />➢ Develop a multi-complex sports facility, including soccer facilities. <br />➢ Develop City sports leagues. <br />➢ Develop Lake Crook. <br />Improve existing recreational facilities/programs. <br />➢ Create/improve access to park and recreation facilities via bike lanes and walking <br />trails. <br />➢ Create/utilize citizen neighborhood watch groups. <br />5. Focus SESSIoN IsstrE: Gateway Image - Entering Leaving the City <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Define and improve gateways into Paris. <br />➢ Create "monumental" entrances into Paris: <br />1. At 82 Highway west of the City; <br />2. At 19/24 Highway south of the City; <br />3. At redesigned interchange of 271 Highway and Clarksville Street; <br />4. At 271 Highway and North Main; <br />5. At Bonham and the RR crossing; <br />6. At 82 Highway. <br />➢ Provide incentives to improve/redevelop poorly maintained and downtrodden <br />properties at or near the gateways. <br />sA98288\wec\eN.1 mpn i-oi.a,c 11 EiWK <br />