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r ~ Citv and Neiizhborhood 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 southeastem Oklahoma. The city had a population of 25,998 persons according ro 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 mos[ popular area of the county for residential rural growth is nor[h and east. The city annexed some 10,000 acres mosNy to the nor[h and east, be[ween 1997 and 1999 and its popula[ion 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 fac[ors 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 froml7'h street on the east to 19°i street intersection on the west. This a mixed use with commercial, retail, multi family and ecclesiastical uses mixed with oider single family dweilings. 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 churchjust south across Bonham street; the church parking lotjust west on Bonham street with older residential uses ro 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 induded an ATM pad for Liberty National B1nk on the corner of Bonham and 19"'street and a 32 unit self storuge 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 25°i NW and seven units at Bonham.and 23' SW were completed in 2000. An 18 unit complex is currendy planned just three blocks east at I3"' NW and Bonham if financing can be arranged, and a two bay fast lube is soon [o be built 90' east of [he subject a[ 17'h 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