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C. Reference in this policy to the terms "parcel, lot or tract" shall not include any alterations to the property's tax parcel legal description that are made after February 13, 1990. Polices: Node size shall be based on the intended use, service area population, existing land use pattern, and other demand characteristics. Polices: Node configuration shall provide for the most efficient use of land, and of transportation and other public facilities and services, while eliminating sprawl and strip development. Polices: No node shall be expanded unless 70% of the subject node's land area (less rights- of-way) is developed with non-residential and non-agricultural uses, or approved for non- residential and non-agricultural development, or otherwise warranted by the proposed development. Otherwise warranted may include but not be limited to the following: • Developed percentage of a node is between 60% and 70% and the node expansion meets one of the following criteria: • expansion of the node is necessary to accommodate the expansion of an existing use where there is not suitable vacant land adjacent to the use within the node, the land proposed for inclusion is owned or controlled by the owner of the site containing the use proposed for expansion, and a finding is made by the Board of County Commissioners that no other land in the node can feasibly accommodate the expansion of the referenced use, or • expansion of an existing node is necessary to adjust a node boundary that splits a small parcel of land and a finding is made by the Board of County Commissioners that development of the parcel is not feasible with the split land use designation and that inclusion of the parcel in the node is more appropriate than exclusion of the parcel from the node. • Expansion of a node is necessary to accommodate a use (such as a regional mall or a large-scale research/technology/industrial park) which has a substantial land area requirement and no alternative suitable sites are available in existing nodes. • Expansion of a node is necessary to compensate for existing or proposed right-of-way which was included within the node boundary and included in the node size calculation, where the node expansion will not exceed the acreage represented by the right-of-way. • Expansion of a node is necessary to accommodate a substantial change in circumstances affecting a property adjacent to the node, where said change has had Future Land Use Element 140