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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use Recommendation-Urban Design Create good urban design along commercial thoroughfare corridors 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 community centers, at the arterial roads that connect to the Loop Highway. • Coordinate major thoroughfare improvements in the Major Street Plan with patterns of commercial growth so that streets can accommodate increased traffic volumes, in particular on future arterial streets-both in the City and in "Urban Service Areas" of the ETJ of the City; and • 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; • Require all commercial developments to be pedestrian-oriented with clearly identified walk-ways 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 commercial and residential land uses; • Require parking lots to be planted with street landscaping as well as appropriate number of shade trees (one tree for every ten to 25 parking spaces is recommended); • Require commercial and industrial developers to maintain trees and plants they have installed as landscaping; and • Limit use of corrugated metal facades-require brick or similar. Implement Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Principles Crime Prevention Through Environment Design (CPTED) is a set of site planning principles which-when properly applied-can help reduce crime. As part of a new site plan review process CPTED (pronounced "sep-ted") theories contend that architects, City planners, landscape architects and interior designers, and law enforcement can create a climate of safety in a community, right from the start of site planning and development approval. CPTED's goal is to prevent crime through designing a physical environment that positively influences human behavior people who use the areas regularly perceive it as safe, and would-be criminals see the area as a highly risky place to commit crimes. S: V 8288\WPC\final rcpurt ?-Ol.ikx- 66 B wR