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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use • Require sidewalks at least 5 feet in width be provided along all sides of the lot that abut a public or private street and that a continuous internal pedestrian walkway be provided from the perimeter public sidewalk to the principal customer entrance. This internal walkway must feature landscaping, benches, and other such materi als/facilities for no less than 50 percent of its length. • Require that sidewalks be provided along the full length of the building along any facade featuring a customer entrance and along any facade abutting public parking areas. Such sidewalks shall be located at least six feet from the facade of the building to provide planting beds for foundation landscaping. • Require that internal pedestrian walkways provide a weather protection feature such as an awning within 30 feet of all customer entrances. • Require the internal pedestrian walkways be distinguished from driving surfaces through the use of special pavers, bricks, or scored concrete to enhance pedestrian safety and the attractiveness of the walkways. Recommendation-Downtown and Office/Institutional Development Standards Implement appropriate site development criteria for the Downtown area, incorporating the goals and recommendations for achieving site-specific urban design based on the historic characteristics of the City core. • Use the site plan review process to ensure that commercial developments allow the preservation of historic elements of style and proportion and the prevention of flooding (includes drainage channel, stream banks and flood plain areas; and • Orient and ali;n buildings and developments with a sensitivity to the existing street front property line and setback. Develop a"Office/Institutional Overlay District" at St. Joseph Hospital and the L.P. McCuistion Medical Center: Adopt Site Plan Review standards that require developers to demonstrate the extent to which the structures, walkways, roads, driveways, open space (if any), and parking lots in the "Overlay District" have been proposed to achieve the following objectives: A. Conserve natural resources and amenities available on the site; B. Preserve the natural amenities of the site as viewed from the public rights-of- way of local streets and regional thoroughfares; C. Ensure that proposed structures are located on suitable soils; and D. Minimize adverse traffic impacts on Major Thoroughfare Streets in the medical center neighborhoods, such as Clarksville Street, and west of Still House Road. E. Development Standards, Office/Institutional Uses in the Office/Institutional Overly District: S:V8288\WPC1Final rcpwrt 2-01.duc 71 BWR