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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use When regulating new commercial development on arterial roads from the Loop 286, protect the capacity of the road to carry arterial traffic. • Businesses should be clustered in developments to allow for the preservation of turning movement capacity. • Use the site plan review process to promote clustering development for maintaining design standards and preserving traffic capacity. • Orient and align buildings and developments with sensitivity to the existing cluster development along the corridor and to establish a sense of design. and • Encourage the design of residential and office park internal traffic circulation to make parking more efficient. Foster attractive mixed-use development in the Planned Office/Institutional" districts around the hospital and in and around Downtown Paris. • Building orientation/setbacks--An increasing number of jurisdictions require primary entrances of buildings to front on the major thoroughfare in an area to avoid haphazard site development patterns. All developments in the corridor should be required to face the local arterial road. Also, special minimum/maximum setback standards should be considered to avoid inconsistent building placement along the corridor. • Parking screening--Limit the impact of parking in front of primary facades by screening and berming to avoid the domination of parking along a main thoroughfare. • Building facade treatment--Standards should be adopted requiring that the facades of all buildings receive some treatment to avoid long expanses of blank walls. Rear/side walls should also have some detailing. • Building materials--To ensure high-quality building materials compatible with a mixed-use development area, the City should consider limiting certain materials, such as corrugated metal facades. • Landscape requirements--Perimeter and parking lot landscaping requirements need to be improved. For example, trees should be required along the front of businesses on arterial roads and in parking lot planting islands. • Signage controls--All signs in the corridor should be ground-mounted monurrient signage limited in size. Off-premise signs (billboards) should not be allowed in the district. Each site with multiple uses should develop a master site plan for review during the site planning process. • Service facilities/loading areas--The City should adopt special standards for placement and screening of trash receptacles, loading areas, and other service facilities. sA98288NwecVtnai rep,rt 2-01.aoc 65 BWR