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A BOOK 79 F'.ur POLICY 1.26: The County shall also designate Neighborhood Commercial Nodes, not to exceed 5 acres, for limited retail and convenience uses. New Neighborhood Nodes shall be no cicnser than 1 mile to existing commercial nodes. Neighborhood Commercial Nodes are not shown on the Future Land Use Map. The existence of a neighborhood node shall not prevent the expansion of an existing non -neighborhood node. - NO COMMENT ON THE ABOVE POLICIES Commissioner Bird wished to know if Policy 1.23, which states that "No Node should be considered for expansion unless 700 of the land area (less rights-of-way) is developed or approved for development..." is something new*. Director Keating advised that we had that policy, but agreed to add the phrase "or otherwise warranted by the proposed development," as that leaves some flexibility. Director Keating wished to have authorization to include in Objective 1 the policy that we referenced before that conserva- tion areas will be more specifically determined by environmental surveys. ON MOTION by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by Commis- sioner Bowman, Commissioners Scurlock and Wheeler having left the meeting, the Board unanimously (3-0) agreed to include the above in Objective 1. OBJECTIVE 2 URBAN SERVICE AREAS By 1991, all new residential development greater than .2 units/acre, commercial and industrial development shall occur within the Urban Service Areas which contain the infrastructure and services needed to accommodate such development. Attorney Douglas Kneller, representing Norpak Corporation, asked what happens if a corporation or large land owner comes in and puts in the infrastructure, perhaps a 4 million dollar waste facility, drills wells, etc. For the county, that has increased their general bonding capacity. He felt no county or municipal- ity would pass up something like that, but pursuant to this Plan, 108