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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use CHAPTERS FUTURE LAND USE - FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS The Comprehensive Plan has established three key objectives as the highest ranked priorities during the goal setting process: • Application of planning principles and policies to development to ensure compatibility among land uses; • Stabilization of existing neighborhoods through community involvement and support of private investment; and • Service to annexation areas where urban utilities can be cost-effectively extended. To achieve these planning objectives, the City must implement proper land use planning principles and secure City-county coordination. The City of Paris must continue planning on the basis of watersheds, for example, in order to extend sewer service in cost-effective ways; and to protect the City reservoirs at Pat Mayse Lake and Lake Crook. The "Urban Service Area" concept of the plan forms the logical geographic area for extending services and for annexing territory. Residential Development In establishing which pattern of development may be expected in the Paris area, the extreme higher-density residential development pattern as presented on the table below was rejected as unrealistic. The higher-density extreme would dissipate 80% of residential housing developed in a high-density of 10 units per acre. A pattern of development this dense does not predominate in this region. Instead, a low/moderate density development pattern is most reasonable, whereby 80 to 90% of residential development is single family homes. The extreme low-density scenario of development is not feasible given the development policies of the county. Such policies combined with the market costs and development expenses of residential development on public sanitary sewer dictate the low to moderate density patterns. Residential development in the Paris area is projected to follow the pattern shown on the future land use plan map, based on the ability and willingness of the City to support infill development and extend sanitary sewer mainlines to its "Urban Service" Area. Low- to moderate-density development is expected to proceed within the drainage basins identified in Chapter Four. Residential development is projected to extend in three main patterns: • In new residential neighborhoods within "Urban Service Areas" defined by drainage basins where the City can extend sewers; and • Development as infill housing and businesses in existing neighborhoods and commercial districts. 5A98288\WPCltinal rcpurt 2-0I.Juc 33 BwR