It's a very ambitious plan and a very good plan for the town. We need senior housing in town, and this has a very nice village feel to it.

Paris ain't much of a town.

Paris ain't much of a town.

It's not that we're trying to fill the town with seniors. It's helping to balance our residential housing. Over the last five years, we've had a loss of seniors. As people retired and taxes increased for schools, they moved away. We've started to see an increase, but it's not keeping pace with a lot of family subdivisions going up.

There is an emergency operations plan [for the town]. We update it when we need to.

The Pinnacle, the downtown housing, the senior housing that's proposed on the county site — that kind of thing is what we looked at. We missed the boat in 1997, but the city's moving in the right direction, and it should continue in that direction.