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The function of neighborhood commercial areas is also different from that of the county's other commercial designations land districts. Neighborhood commercial areas are designed to meet,the convenience retail needs of surrounding residents, are limited in size, use, and location, and are essentially granted on a "use it or lose it" basis. The progress report provision was incorporated in the CN district requirements to give the Board an opportunity to determine if development of the node has commenced and progressed. If the. Board finds that adequate progress has not occurred, this provision allows the Board to terminate the node approval or grant a six month extension of node approval. The neighborhood node termination provision is important because of the neighborhood node separation requirement. As provided for in the CN district requirements, no neighborhood node shall be established within one nile of another neighborhood node. That requirement was established to ensure that the neighborhood nodes would be limited in number and sufficiently dispersed. However, it was recognized at the time that these requirements were drafted that the separation provision would work only if node approval ',was subject to revocation for non -development. History of Subject Property Designation/Zoning In 1985, Adult CommunitJes Total Services (ACTS), Inc., requested to rezone 7.26 acres located north of S.R. 60 and west of 74th Avenue from R -3A, Retirement District, to C -1A, Restricted Commercial District. This 7.26 acres included the subject ±3 acre parcel. The applicant also requested that this property) be designated as a neighborhood node to allow for the C -1A zoning. It should be noted that at the time of the request no CN district existed; the C -1A district was the most restricted commercial district. Thus, at that time the C -1A district was the most appropriate district for a neighborhood commercial node. On April 11, 1985, while considering the designation/rezoning request, the Planning and Zoning Commission tabled action on the request pending further staff analysis of the then -existing criteria used in establishing neighborhood nodes. At its April 25, 1985 meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission, based upon further staff analysis and input from node workshops held in 1983 and 1984, 'recommended adoption of new neighborhood commercial ode criteria which included the following restrictions: 7 No node.could exceed six (6) acres in size; and No node could be established within one mile (5,280, of another neighborhood commercial node, other commercial or residential node or an MXD (mixed use) area. This separation distance could be reduced by 10% to 4,752" via a special waiver granted by the community development director (based upon special, characteristics and criteria). The 7.26 acre parcel involved in the neighborhood node/rezoning request did not meet either of these recommended criteria. [It should be. noted that these criteria were ultimately adopted by ordinance'by the Board of County Commissioners on June 5, 1985. The effective date of that ordinance was June 17, 1985.] Because the 7.26 acre proposal did not meet the recommended criteria, the Planning and Zoning Commission denied the ACTS request at the April 25th meeting (see attachment #3). ACTS then appealed the Planning and Zoning Commission's denial to the Board of County Commissioners. On June 12, 1985, the Board approved a neighborhood commercial node designation covering three (3) ares of the subject property, and also rezoned the three acres from RM - 8, to C-lA (see attachment #4). Although the approval wasnot consistent with the new neighborhood node criteria (specifically the separation -distance requirement) adopted June 5, 1985, thelnew 43 OriK