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any problem with not having enough. He felt the big issue is to <br />set the standards by which you make a decision as to when you are <br />going to expand a node, and the decision should be made now as to <br />what that criteria will be so that we can be consistent. <br />Commissioner Bird continued to stress that the burden should <br />be on the applicant who wants the node expanded and we should not <br />take someone else's away. <br />Chairman Wheeler agreed partially, but pointed out that <br />there is a lot of land speculation involved in nodes and he did <br />not think it should be locked in the way it was in the past. <br />There are those who buy the property and just sit on it, and he <br />did not feel we should continue just to protect a speculator. <br />Attorney Michael O'Haire made the point that just looking at <br />the SR60/1-95 Node, there must be 400/600 owners out there, and <br />are they going to have to come in to protect themselves from <br />loosing what they have got every time a node is expanded. <br />Secondly, he asked what is wrong with investing in real estate. <br />Chairman Wheeler felt it is fine if you want to take the <br />risks, and he did not feel what is proposed is as flexible as <br />Attorney O'Haire is making it appear. <br />Commissioner Bird asked how you choose who loses, and <br />Commissioner Scurlock felt the question is who runs the show. <br />The marketplace should not run the whole show. We should create <br />nodes that are of sufficient size to allow some competition, but <br />design them based on the services available, roads, utilities, <br />etc. We should identify those nodes, and he believed that we <br />have done that based on services and impact on the surrounding <br />areas. <br />Commissioner Eggert did not have a problem with Policy 1.24 <br />regarding reverting of the zoning, but did have a problem with <br />setting special criteria for identifying what piece of property <br />comes off a node when another one goes on. <br />Question arose about not considering expansion unless a node <br />is 70o utilized, and Director Keating clarified that if it is 70% <br />AUG23 1 �ooK 77 �►,.,�. 730 <br />