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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use Limit sprawl by using the new CIP to phase development, thereby discouraging premature extension of utilities and services. Identify areas of the City's future growth or "Urban Service Areas" where there are private sector pressures for urban growth, or where growth pressures are projected to occur during the planning period. Encourage development and extension of City services in those areas. Recommendations-Commercial Development Create good urban design in the Downtown and in the new "Planned Office/Institutional" districts in the hospital districts by linking developments with common and consistent design patterns to promote orderly commercial development. • Amend commercial district regulations to expressly require site plan review of all commercial development and to establish design standards. • Cluster commercial centers, particularly in new "Planned Office/Institutional" districts, at the arterial roads that connect to the hospital districts, such as on Lamar Avenue. • Coordinate major thoroughfare improvements in the Major Street Plan Network with patterns of commercial growth so that streets can accommodate increased traffic volumes, in particular on future north/south streets on the east and west sides of the City. • Create strong continuous corridor edges using either consistent building setbacks or continuous sequences of plant materials, street light standards and compatible signage. • Minimize curb cuts and median breaks by requiring adjacent commercial uses to design internal connections between parking lots to minimize street traffic and curb cuts, by implementing the street access standards. • Require all commercial developments to be pedestrian-oriented, particularly in the Downtown, with clearly identified walkways between parking lots and buildings. • Lighting for businesses and parking lots should be low glare and designed so as not to shine directly into adjacent residential areas. • Where possible, encourage the location of developments internally to site, maintaining a solid vegetated edge along thoroughfare frontage. • Require substantial vegetated buffering and screening of distracting and unsightly development elements. • Require substantial vegetated buffering and screening between incompatible land uses. • Require parking lots to be planted with street landscaping as well as appropriate number of shade trees (one tree for every five to ten parking spaces is recommended). • Require commercial and industrial developers to maintain trees and plants they have installed as landscaping. sA98288MvOrinai rCP„rt z-oi.aoc 64 B WR