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SEP 7 1983 5A, It was generally agreed that we need to keep looking for a better answer, and also that we can't continue to keep people in a state of limbo. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Lyons, SECONDED by Commissioner Scurlock, that the request by Edward Gustafson and Robert Davis for an amendment of the Comprehensive Plan be denied. Commissioner Wodtke expressed concern that this property is not only right in the middle of two nodes, but the problem is further accentuated by the fact that U.S.I. was put in diagonally and it is an odd -shaped piece of land. Planning Manager Keating stated that staff's philosophy is that when the Commission adopted this plan, they had specific ideas as to what they wanted to achieve, but it must be realized they couldn't consider every small piece which didn't fit in. Staff's general philosophy, therefore, has been that if conditions have not changed, the original documentation should stay the same unless there are reasons to believe there were characteristics of the parcel that weren't taken into the Board's consideration when the Comprehensive Plan was developed. Commissioner Wodtke asked what happened to the "first come first served" basis of consideration for being included in a node. He felt people cannot wait a year to determine whether or not they can be part of a node. Mr. Keating reported that staff is in process of developing a set of procedures to determine if someone is in a node or not. He pointed out that if someone thinks he is in a node, he can come to the Community Development Department and have an analysis done, and if he does not agree, he can appeal to the Board. The only way someone would have to wait until the first of the year would be if his situation required the node to be expanded. 87