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WHEREAS, Chapter 219 of the Local Government Code further provides that a municipality may define, by ordinance, the relationship between a comprehensive plan and development regulations and may provide standards for determining the consistency required between a plan and development regulations; and, WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 219.003 of the Local Government Code, the City of Paris, by and through its Planning & Zoning Commission, conducted numerous hearings at which the public was given the opportunity to give testimony and present written evidence with regard to the Draft Comprehensive Plan prepared and presented by Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corporation; and, WHEREAS, following said numerous public hearings, the Planning & Zoning Commission conducted additional public meetings whereby various provisions of the proposed Comprehensive Plan were carefully scrutinized and extensively deliberated; and, WHEREAS, following the process of public hearings and extensive deliberation by the Planning & Zoning Commission, the Commission forwarded said Draft Comprehensive Plan to the City Council with its recommendations for approval thereof, and, WHEREAS, the City Council has subsequently, in public meetings, duly posted, fully discussed and deliberated the proposed Comprehensive Plan as presented by the consultants Bucher, Willis & Ratliff; and, WHEREAS, the adoption of the proposed Comprehensive Plan shall not, in accordance with Section 219.004 of the Local Government Code, limit the ability of the City of Paris to prepare other plans, policies, or strategies related to land use and land use planning as required; and, WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt the aforesaid Draft Comprehensive Plan as the new Comprehensive Zoning and Land Use Plan for the City of Paris; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That the Comprehensive Plan, as the same was prepared by the consulting firm of Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corporation, and as the same was presented to the City of Paris Planning & Zoning Commission, and considered at numerous public hearings conducted by said Commission, in which the general public was encouraged to give testimony and present written evidence regarding same, which said plan, following further deliberation by the Planning & Zoning Commission, was forwarded to the City Council for consideration along with recommendations for approval made by the Planning & Zoning Commission, and which said plan was further reviewed and revised by the City Council following further public input and hearing in conjunction with the aforesaid consultant, is found to be acceptable to the City Council as the same is attached hereto and for all purposes incorporated herein as Exhibit A, and is hereby in all things approved as the Comprehensive Zoning