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Committee takes it one item at a time
By Mary Madewell
Published November 16, 2009
The City of Paris Code Committee will continue to wade through mounds of material when the 20-member group meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers at City Hall.
The group, which met first Oct. 13 and again Nov. 10, has reviewed permit procedures, looked at documents from nearby cities and has decided on meeting procedures going forward.
All meetings are open to the public.
On Tuesday, the group is expected to begin tackling “an occupancy at a time,” meaning addressing the different type structures, from single family residencies to industrial facilities; from commercial buildings to the downtown historic district.
At a Nov. 10 meeting. Jordon Harper of Harrison, Walker & Harper also recommended “hot button issues” be looked at soon so public concerns could be addressed up front.
“There are some hot buttons that we want to tweak and I think we need to bring those to light and see how we are going to address those,” Harper said.
The downtown historic district and other historical structures were mentioned as “hot buttons.”
City Councilman Edwin Pickle recommended putting a questionnaire on the city Web site so the public can express issues of concern.
The Code Committee’s challenge is to update a City of Paris fire code that has not been touched in 15 years.
The City of Paris is currently operating under the 1994 Standard Fire Prevention Code and the 2003 International Building Code. A state mandate several years ago required the city to update to the 2003 building code. But the legislative requirement did not include an updated fire code.
The committee is using the 2006 International Building Code and 2006 International Fire Code as the blueprint for what the City of Paris needs to work toward.
Committee members set a tentative April goal to have a fire code and building code proposal put before the Paris City Council.
City of Paris Code Committee members include Charles Waldrum, chairman, and John Fuston, vice chairman. Others are Gary Brown, Mike Davenport, Jerry Haning, Bryan Hargis, Jordan Harper, Johnny Norris, Bobby Smallwood, Kim Stephens and Carolyn Whelchel.
City Council members Stephen Brown, Kevin Kear and Edwin Pickle also sit on the group as does City Manager Kevin Carruth.
City staff assisting the committee include Janice Ellis, city secretary; Fire Chief Ronnie Grooms, Dale Maberry, fire marshal, Kent McIlyar, city attorney and Shawn Napier, director of Engineering, Planning, and Development.
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