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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use Recommendations-Regional Planning and Land Use Regulation The plan establishes the rational basis for cooperating with the county to review development proposals beyond the Paris ETJ in drainage basins that affect the Pat Mayse Lake water shed. The water quality of the Paris drinking water must be preserved. The City should use the Comprehensive Plan when participating in the Northeast Texas Regional Water Plan-Senate Bill 1 Plan-in order to most effectively communicate the City's interests and long-term planning objectives. Recommendations-Annexation Issues Future annexations should be planned to avoid straining municipal resources. To most efficiently utilize cunent infrastructure investments, further annexations should be undertaken as part of the new Paris five-year capital improvement program (CIP) process. Strategically plan annexations in the near-term. • Services to annexed areas should be planned as part of the five years CIP within "Future Urban Service Area" in the Growth Areas in response to private urban pressures. • Annexation should be planned for short-term development in Growth Areas where the City can most cost-effectively serve growth . • Near-term annexation should be targeted where annexation would add an area with short- term development potential that can be easily serviced by existing infrastructure. Recommendations-Housing Action Agenda In order to effect the City's neighborhood stabilization agenda in its Policy Planning chapter, new strategies must be pursued. To significantly replace the lost housing stock- and meet the objectives-public and private strategies must be aggressively pursued. These endeavors are the critical components of a comprehensive multi-year effort Paris should undertake to impact the quantity and quality of the City's housing stock. Initiate strategies in partnership with the private sector to further a pro-active housing action agenda: • Pursue Infill Development on Vacant Developable Land - The City of Paris should become pro-active with infill development. A targeted public information effort that directly solicits landowners of vacant lots should be implemented. • Encourage "Residential-Design Manufactured Housing" - Housing built "off site" is a reasonable approach to overcome the shortage of local contractors. There is an increasing consumer acceptance of this form of housing. The units can be placed on a permanent foundation, improved with pitched roofs and composition shingles, double width, with front porches, to look like site-built homes. They should be allowed- along with modular homes on foundations-through the building permit process. sA98288\weOrinai repon z-oi.doc 55 BWR