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C1 proper utilization of the land and actually more a zoning decision than a Comprehensive Plan decision. Chairman Scurlock noted that one other concern is the mix between commercial and industrial which he felt should be better defined. In further discussion it was generally agreed there would be some hard decisions to be faced. Commissioner Lyons pointed out that this county is growing very rapidly and he did not feel we can avoid hard decisions one way or the other. We cannot avoid requests for change whichever way we go, but he agreed that we might get more stability from the proposal made by the Board of Realtors. Attorney Michael O'Haire noted that he has a number of clients who will be affected and he has spoken before on the need to reduce the flexibility. Mr. O'Haire did not feel that either the recommendation of staff or of the realtors, which he felt had a lot of merit, will solve the problem. He believed that what is really needed is concentric rings of zoning which will phase out to different zonings. Right now there are given uses on the edge of the nodes that will not be compatible, and what he would recommend is the phasing of uses from more intense to less intense. Attorney Steve Henderson informed the Board that his clients neither strongly support nor oppose the idea of drawing limits. They would basically support what the Board of Realtors has proposed, but would also urge that the Commission more clearly define the separation of industrial and commercial within the commercial/industrial nodes, perhaps with a dual node approach or perhaps by just simply identifying a quadrant of the node for industrial. He emphasized that confusion arises from people who have had certain zoning for years and assumed they could use the property for that purpose, but then find they may not be 25 AUG 15 1984 BOOK U8 Pal