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City and Neighborhood Description The subject is located in western Paris, the county seat and the principal metropolitan area of Lamar County, Texas. The city is the retail, employment, cultural and medical center for a trade area that exceeds 150,000 people and includes some or all of the surrounding five counties in Texas and the three counties in southeastern Oklahoma. The city had a population of 25,998 persons according to the 2000 census which was a 4.8% gain in population from 1990 to 2000. The county as a whole grew 10.4% to 48,499 persons over the same period. The primary growth direction of the city is east and the most popular area of the county for residential rural growth is north and east. The city annexed some 10,000 acres mostly to the north and east, between 1997 and 1999 and its population growth was primarily due to that annexation. Paris and Lamar County have a stable economic future based on the diversity of jobs in the medical, industrial, retail, and agricultural fields coupled with a strong local financial base and a wide trade area. These factors insure a steady economy and a very slow but positive growth much like they have experienced in the past. The immediate neighborhood is defined as a two block wide corridor from{7® street on the east to 19th street intersection on the west. This a mixed use with commercial, retail, multi family and ecclesiastical uses mixed with older single family dwellings. Zoning is mixed with Commercial, General Retail, Multi Family, Two Family and Single Family in these twelve blocks. The subject has a large, old, single family dwelling just east on the Bonham street frontage and in both directions on Maple Avenue; there is a large automobile repair and service center and a church just south across Bonham street; the church parking lot just west on Bonham street with older residential uses to its north across Maple. The Hick Tire and Muffler Center and the campus of the Immanuel Baptist Church are the largest land users in the immediate strip but several other churches are within three blocks. The traffic count in front of the subject according to the last published survey (1999) was about 7,400 cars per day. The latest new construction included an ATM pad for Liberty National Bank on the corner of Bonham and 19"' street and a 32 unit self storage facility in the 1800 Block of Bonham street in 1999 and a complete renovation of a five bay carwash at 19'~ and Bonham in 2000. Just beyond the immediate strip, a twelve unit apartment complex comprising the first phase of a 36 unit complex of privately subsidized apartments was completed in late 1999 at the corner of Bonham and 25th NW and seven units at Bonham and 23r`~ SW were completed in 2000. An 18 unit complex is currently planned just three blocks east at 13~h NW and Bonham if financing can be arranged, and a two bay fast lube is soon to be built 90' east of the subject at 17th NW and Bonham. Overall, development along the strip usually lags well behind the other major highways into Paris except for SH 19, and unlike the others, it is usually of mixed use. That trend should continue on the future. PAT MURPHY & ASSOCIATES 7