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There are two commercial areas within the special study area serving the neighborhood: major commercial facilities north of 15th Avenue, primad!t~ facing Franklin Boulevard; and a Community Commercial node at 19 Avenue and Agate Street. Both areas shall remain in commercial uses with no further expansion of commercial zoning in either area. In order to protect existing residential uses on the south side of 15th Avenue, site review procedures will be attached to properties facing 15th Avenue east of the alley between Moss Street and Villard Street eastward to the ODOT lands. (u) New Policies 6, 7, 8, and 9 are added to the Traffic Circulation Policies in Part Iii of the SAS (page 43) as follows: By March, 2005, the City shall initiate a study of Agate Street between Franklin Boulevard and 19th Avenue. That study, conducted jointly with the University and the Fairmount Neighborhood Association, shall identify strategies to improve the function and carrying capacity of Agate according to the City criteria for its designated street classification. The City will implement the necessary changes. The University will participate in those improvements as development occurs and as required by City code, to the extent that the University is directly responsible for the needed improvements. The City, with the cooperation of the University and the Fairmount Neighborhood Association, shall initiate an area-wide traffic calming study for the streets within the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study boundary to determine appropriate mitigation for through-traffic utilizing neighborhood streets. Such study shall be initiated prior to December, 2008, subject to availability of funds. In the event that the City updates the Central Area Transportation Study (CATS) prior to 2008, the City shall fund and initiate an area-wide traffic calming study as part of the CATS update to determine appropriate mitigation measures for the subject area. If a Traffic impact Analysis that is required by the City Code projects that a proposed development will increase traffic on streets within the single-family neighborhood to the east and south of University-owned land the City shall require the applicant to mitigate those impacts through the use of traffic calming strategies or other mechanisms designed to discourage through traffic. With the exception of alleys, vacations of streets within the state-approved University East Campus boundary should not be permitted, unless the applicant, at his or her expense, provides to the City a local street connection study that demonstrates how the proposed street system remaining after such vacation meets the intent of Eugene Code street connectivity provisions Ordinance- 13