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1. Within convenient walking or bicycling distance of an adequate support population. For a full-service neighborhood commercial center at the high end of the size criteria, an adequate support population would be about 4,000 persons (existing or anticipated) within an area conveniently accessible to the site. For smaller sites or more limited services, a smaller support population or service area may be sufficient. 2. Adequate area to accommodate off-street parking and loading needs and landscaping, particularly between the center and adjacent residential property, as well as along street frontages next door to outdoor parking areas. 3. Sufficient frontage to ensure safe and efficient automobile, pedestrian and bicycle access without conflict with moving traffic at intersections and along adjacent streets. 4. The sit6 shall be no more than five acres, including existing commercial development. The exact size shall depend on the numbers of establishments associated with the center and the~population to be served. Neighborhood commercial facilities may include community commercial centers when the latter meets applicable location and site criteria as listed above, even though community commercial centers are generally larger than five acres in size. In certain circumstances, convenience grocery stores or similar retail operations play an important role in providing services to existing neighborhoods. These types of operations which currently exist can be recognized and allowed to continue through such actions as rezoning. Strip or Street-Oriented Commercial Facilities Largely oriented to automobile traffic, the need for this type of facility has diminished with the increasing popularity of neighborhood, community, and regional shopping centers with self- contained off-street parking facilities. Strip commercial areas are characterized by commercial zoning, or at least, commercial uses along major arterials; i.e., portions of River Road and West 11 th Avenue, part of Willamette Street, Highway 99N, Franklin Boulevard in Eugene, Main Street in Springfield, and others. Such uses often create congestion in adjacent travel lanes, are generally incompatible with abutting non-commercial uses, and are not as vital to the community as previously because of the existence of retail, office, and service complexes with off-street parking facilities. They should be limited to existing locations and transformed into more desirable commercial patterns, if possible. To mitigate negative external characteristics, unless it is not in the interest of the public, efforts should be made in connection with existing strip commercial areas to: 1. Landscape perimeters, especially when adjacent to residential properties. 2. Direct lights and signs away from residential areas. II-G-5