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Planning and Zoning Meeting <br /> June 3, 2003 <br /> Page 7 <br /> <br />is worked hard on and property B is made a mess of, it hurts the whole <br />community and that is why this is so important. Something permanent <br />should be studied before action is taken. When a building is reroofed <br />it has a 25 to 30 year life and you can not just tell the building owner to <br />tear it back off, its permanent. There are several downtown building <br />owners that are interested in doing the job right but because some <br />people are abusing their right-this regulation is necessary. This <br />regulation is not retroactive-people would not be told to go back and <br />take offwhat has been done up to now. <br /> <br />Mr. Denney showed from the map where the proposed district would <br />be. <br /> <br /> Arvin Starrett, 629 Church Street, spoke in favor of the petition stating <br /> that the city is very fortunate because virtually the entire commercial <br /> district was destroyed in 1916. What this devastation did was put <br /> together in one place buildings of 1916-17 of the finest collection in the <br /> entire country. There are names such as Bywaters and others who <br /> made contributions to their community out oflove for their city. There <br /> is a peristyle, park, fountain, and library in our city. Several families <br /> of means at the turn of the century were concerned about the future of <br /> the way their city looked. How can we be any less concerned that our <br /> children and grandchildren and folks 60 years hence be able to <br /> experience the Paris that we all know. None of us were around when <br /> those buildings were built hopefully those buildings will be around a lot <br /> longer than we are, we are custodians of those properties and the <br /> concern is that the decision made will be to help those buildings to be <br /> passed on to generations to come. <br /> <br /> Pike Burkhart, 524 Church Street, Chairman-Elect of Keep Paris <br /> Beautiful, spoke in favor of the petition stating that Keep Paris <br /> Beautiful represents a cross section of this community, citizens, <br /> business, industry, and government. Hard workis put into fostering the <br /> <br /> <br />