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The amendment of Ordinance No. 1215 establishing the Fire Limits of the City of Paris was taken as the text item of business, and the public hearing was opened. Kerry R. Sweatt reviewed the same and reported that a Mice of the hearing had been published in the Paris News on Tuesday, February 19, 1974. Nathan Bell spoke in favor of "bringing in" the limits and questioned the fire limits line going through the lot on 2nd Street, S. W. and West .Austin extended and requested that the proposed line be moved Southward or Northward. Jim Bell requested that the line be moved Northward to exclude. the Bell property. Mr. Sweatt reviewed existing land use, code requirements and purpose of public hearings. The Chairman, Roy Ho Anderson, stated that the City. Administration's recommendation. ' ax to more ,the. Une Northward from Austin Street, on 2nd Street, S. Vii, to West. Kaufman Street and Westward on West Kaufman. Street to 3rd Street, S. W. After discussion,. the motion was made by Raymond T. Fuller, with second by Herschel R. McKinney, that the Commission recommend to the. City Council that the City Administration's recommendation be accepted. The motion passed unanimously. Kerry R. Sweatt reported the C:ty Engineer's: approval of Minor Plat of Lot 1 and Lot 7, City Block 306. After . discussion, the motion was made by Homer Thoraton, with second by Spencer Abbott, that said minor plat be received and approved and that the Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission sign the same. The motion passed unanimously. The request for Planning Study on South Church Street, from Brame Street to Jackson Street,. was taken as the nett item'±of business, Mr. Sweatt reviewed a letter to the City Council for referral to the Commission. Mr. Joel Gibbons appeared before the Concussion and requested that the planning area be extended from Brame to Sherman and that the study include historical preservation and restriction to single family zoning in areas presently zoned multiple family and two family. Mrs. Joel Gibbons gave a history of the study made by resi- dents and organizations and experience of other towns which indicate that zoning should be the first action to obtain adequate protection for neighborhood preservation. Mrs. Lee Gano Lightfoot spoke in favor of the study including that area North of Sherman to preserve historical buildings and streets. Mr. Sweatt recommended that the request go back to the City Council for referral back to the Planning and zoning Commission. Nathan Bell questioned zoning of single family and stated that he intended to construct eight apartment units at CbAwch and Brame.