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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, mployment, cultural and medical center for a trade area that exceeds 150,000 people and includes ome or all of the surrounding five counties in Texas and the [hree counties in southeastern Oklaho a. The city had a population of 25,998 persons according to the 2000 census which was a 4.8% g in in population from 1990 to 2000. The county as a whole grew 10.4% to 48,499 persons over th same period. The primary growth direction of the city is east and the most popular area of the co nry for residential rural growth is north and east. The city annexed some 10,000 acres mosdy to he north and east, between 1997 and 1999 and its population growth was primarily due to that anne ation. Paris and Lamar County have a stable economic future based on the diversity of jobs in the edical, industrial, retail, and agricultural fields coupled with a strong local financial base and a wid trade area. These factors insure a steady economy and a very siow but positive growth much like t ey have experienced in the past. The immediate neighborhood is defin d as a two block wide corridor from17'h street on the east to 19" street intersection on the west. his a mixed use with commercial, retail, multi family and ecclesiastical uses mixed with older ingle family dwellings. Zoning is mixed with Commercial, General Retail, Multi Family, Two F mily and Single Family in these twelve blocks. The subject has a]arge, old, single family dwelling just east on the Bonham street frontage and in both directions on Maple Avenue; there is a large auto obile repair and service center and a churchjust south across Bonham s[reet the church parking lotjust west on Bonham street with older residential uses to its north across Maple. The Hick Tire a d Muffler Center and the campus of the Immanuel Baptist Church are the largest land users in th immediate strip but several other churches are within three blocks. The traffic count in front of t e subject according to the last published survey (1999) was about 7,400 cars per day. The Iatest new construction include an ATM pad for Liberty National Bank on the corner of Bonham and 19'h street and a 32 unit s If storage facility in the 1800 Block of Bonham street in 1999 and a complete renovation of a five ay carwash at 19'h and Bonham in 2000. Just beyond the immediate strip, a twelve unit apartm nt complex comprising the first phase of a 36 unit complex of privately subsidized apartments wa, completed in late 1999 at the corner of Bonham and 25°i NW and seven units at Bonham and 23"' S were completed in 2000. An 18 unit complex is currendy planned just three blocks east at 13`h W and Bonham if financing can be arranged, and a two bay fast lube is soon to be bui]t 90' east o the subject at 17'" NW and Bonham. Overall, development along the strip usually Iags well behin the other major highways into Paris except for SH 19, and unlike the others, it is usually of mix d use. That trend should continue on the future. PAT MUIRPHY & ASSOCIATES 7