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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas <br />Policy Planning Issues <br />Create new attractions, such as an improved Lake Crook. <br />Serve the aging population. <br />➢ Orient tourism to mobile senior citizens. <br />6. Focus SESSIoN IsSUE: Annual Community Project <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Develop annual community projects through a cooperative effort. <br />➢ Promote/facilitate cooperation among community groups (garden clubs, civic clubs, <br />youth organizations, etc.). <br />➢ Hold a Citywide clean up/paint up project sponsored by the City. <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES <br />1. Focus SESSIoN IsstrE: Job Opportunities/Training <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Capitalize on job growth and training opportunities. <br />➢ Focus on Paris Junior College/Texas A&M Commerce opportunities. <br />➢ Utilize Texas Workforce Development. <br />➢ Foster more cooperation between local high schools and Paris Junior College. <br />➢ Assess industry needs and gear training to meet those needs. <br />➢ B&W identified as a local job training success. <br />➢ Engineering related training. <br />➢ Apprenticeship programs. <br />➢ PJC/coalition team together. <br />➢ High tech/manufacturing jobs/back office. <br />Provide engineering related training to fill a void in the market and provide youth <br />with local employment opportunities. <br />2. Focus SESS1oN IsstlE: IndustriaUBusiness Retention and Recruitment <br />CHARRETTE RESPONSES: <br />Promote/regulate better land use and service expansion. <br />➢ Consolidate industrial parks. <br />➢ Focus annexation and service expansion along existing corridors such as 195, 79, <br />West Highway 82, South Highway 271 and Cox Airfield. <br />➢ Focus commercial expansion at intersections with the loop such as at Highway 271 <br />and the north Loop, the north Loop and 195, East Highway 82 and the Loop, and <br />West Highway 82 and the Loop. <br />S:\98288\WPClfinal rcp>rt 2•01.duc 14 BWK <br />