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Draft 9/29/14 <br />3. Sufficient frontage to ensure safe and efficient automobile, pedestrian and bicycle access <br />without conflict with moving traffic at intersections and along adjacent streets. <br />4. The site shall be no more than five acres, including existing commercial development. <br />The exact size shall depend on the numbers of establishments associated with the center <br />and the population to be served. <br />Neighborhood commercial facilities may include community commercial centers when the latter <br />meets applicable location and site criteria as listed above, even though community commercial <br />centers are generally larger than five acres in size. <br />In certain circumstances, convenience grocery stores or similar retail operations play an <br />important role in providing services to existing neighborhoods. These types of operations which <br />currently exist can be recognized and allowed to continue through such actions as rezoning. <br />Strip or Street-Oriented Commercial Facilities <br />Largely oriented to automobile traffic, the need for this type of facility has diminished with the <br />increasing popularity of neighborhood, community, and regional shopping centers with self- <br />contained off-street parking facilities. Strip commercial areas are characterized by commercial <br />zoning, or at least, commercial uses along major arterials; i.e., portions of River Road and West <br />th <br />11 Avenue, part of Willamette Street, Highway 99N, Franklin Boulevard in Eugene, Main <br />Street in Springfield, and others. Such uses often create congestion in adjacent travel lanes, are <br />generally incompatible with abutting non-commercial uses, and are not as vital to the community <br />as previously because of the existence of retail, office, and service complexes with off-street <br />parking facilities. They should be limited to existing locations and transformed into more <br />desirable commercial patterns, if possible. <br />To mitigate negative external characteristics, unless it is not in the interest of the public, efforts <br />should be made in connection with existing strip commercial areas to: <br />1.Landscape perimeters, especially when adjacent to residential properties. <br />2.Direct lights and signs away from residential areas. <br />3. Control and consolidate points of access and off-street parking to minimize safety <br />hazards and congestion in connection with adjacent streets. <br />Industrial <br />This designation includes the following, only the first four being shown on the Metro Plan <br />Diagram: <br />II-G-6 <br />