Paris City Council approves multiple zoning changes, adds recycling and indoor-shooting-range classifications

The Paris City Council on Monday approved a slate of zoning and land-use measures, including rezones, a comprehensive-plan amendment, and text amendments that add classifications for recycling operations and indoor shooting ranges.

City staff told the council that the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval for the items before the council. Council approved each ordinance by recorded voice vote; the clerk announced repeated outcomes as “motion carries 7-0.”

The measures passed affect individual properties and the city’s zoning ordinance. Council approved rezoning petitions to allow conversion of existing residences to medical office or commercial uses, a comprehensive-plan amendment and related rezoning to heavy industrial for property on Northwest Loop 286, and a zoning text amendment to add a definition and classification for recycling transfer stations, recycling processing facilities and an indoor shooting range so those uses can be considered through the city’s permit process.

Votes at a glance - Agenda item 12: Ordinance on petition of Ashfaq and Alifa Tapia on behalf of Lynn Van Swearingen to rezone property (Block 319 Lot 2 A7 West Askins survey and related parcels) from Agricultural (A) to General Retail (GR)…