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WHEREAS, in pursuit of such goals, the City Council desires to protect the public health
<br />and safety at the same time protecting the rights of individual property owners; and,
<br />WHEREAS, in furtherance of these goals, the City Council has adopted Article III to
<br />Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris, entitled "Hazardous Buildings" for the
<br />purpose of regulating substandard structures and buildings within the City; and,
<br />WHEREAS, in the process of the adoption of said Article, City Council directed the
<br />inclusion of Section 7-50 thereto, dealing with the preservation of substandard buildings as historic
<br />property; and,
<br />WHEREAS, in order to implement fully said Section 7-50, and to otherwise provide for
<br />the preservation of significant historical landmarks and properties within the City, the City
<br />Council authorized application on behalf of the city for a designation as a Certified Local
<br />Government by the Texas State Historical Preservation Office as provided by 16 U. S. C. A. Section
<br />470 et seq; and,
<br />WHEREAS, by letter dated January 30, 2003, the United States Department of the
<br />Interior designated the City of Paris, Texas, a Certified Loca1 Government pursuant to Section
<br />101(c) of the National Historic Preservation Act; and,
<br />WHEREAS, as part of the aforesaid certification process, the City Council, on June 17,
<br />2002, adopted Ordinance No. 2002-033, an appropriate historic preservation ordinance
<br />establishing, among other things, a Historic Preservation Commission empowered to undertake
<br />certain actions and exercise certain responsibility related to the preservation of historical
<br />landmarks and structures within the City; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the Historic Preservation Commission has recommended amendments to said
<br />Historic Preservation Ordinance relating to the expiration, scope, and application of Certificates
<br />of Appropriateness; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt said proposed amendments, as revised by
<br />the City Lega1 Department, to the Historic Preservation Ordinance; NOW, THEREFORE,
<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COLTNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS,
<br />TEXAS;
<br />Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all
<br />things approved.
<br />Section 2. That Chapter 7, Article VII, Section 7-156 of the Code of Ordinances of the
<br />City of Paris, Paris, Texas, be, and the same is hereby, amended to include the planting of grass,
<br />flowers, shrubs, and trees as Ordinary maintenance thereunder, to read as follows:
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