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_ Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use Create tlexible but strong site plan standards and zoning review procedures through the new Site Plan Review process. • Cluster commercial centers, particularly community centers, at the U.S. Highway 82 corridors in newly annexed areas and other major arterial roads; • Promote good urban design along commercial thoroughfare corridors by linking developments with common and consistent design patterns to promote orderly commercial development • Coordinate major thoroughfare improvements in the Major Street Plan with patterns of commercial growth so that streets can accommodate increased traffic volumes; • 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, buildings and adjacent land uses. • 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 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 ten parking spaces is recommended); • Require commercial and industrial developers to maintain trees and plants they have installed as landscaping; and • Limit curb cuts for driveways to one per property up to a certain size property. Require detailed site planning standards for retail-commercial and multifamily residential developments. • Require that each principal building have a clearly defined, highly visible customer entrance with features such as canopies or porticos, arcades, arches, wing walls, and integral planters. • Require loading docks, trash collection, outdoor storage and similar facilities and functions to be incorporated into the overall design of the building and the landscaping so that the visual and acoustic impacts of these functions are fully contained and out of view from adjacent properties and public streets. Prohibit the use of screening materials that are different from or inferior to the principal materials of the building and landscape. No delivery, loading, trash removal, or similar operations should be permitted between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., except in special circumstances and where steps are taken to reduce noise impacts. • Require each retail establishment to contribute to the establishment or enhancement of the community and public spaces by providing at least two community amenities such as an outdoor patio/seating area, water feature, clock tower, or pedestrian plaza with benches. 5A98288\WPClfinul repon 2-01.ckm- 70 B WR