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• The bicycle element of the Draft Transplan, calls for Stewart Road to have on- _ street bike lanes or to be a designated bike route. If the Transplan draft is adopted, it does provide the flexibility to integrate bicycle facilities with any traffic calming techniques that may be used on Stewart Road. (e) Existing state and local laws regulating use of public ways. • Provisions of the Oregon Vehicle Code will continue to apply after the changes have been made. • City of Eugene Administrative Order 58-96-07 prohibits both through trucks on Stewart Road and vehicles in excess of eight tons from the unimproved section of Stewart Road. The closure makes this Order more effective, as it makes through traffic impossible. (f) The efficient use of the public way by the public. • From one perspective, the closure will have a negative effect on the use of the public way by the public, as some motorists who now use Stewart will have to drive a longer distance to reach their destination. The inconvenience of increased travel time distance and travel time is an unavoidable but acceptable consequence of the closure. See discussion under (a)(1). Looking at this criterion from another perspective, it is not efficient for the public to use a deteriorated road. Continued through use would contribute substantially to the further deterioration and, as explained previously, the City is not presently in a position to make the needed road repairs. Diverting traffic onto. West 11~` is more efficient than continuing to allow through use of Stewart because West 11"' is better able to handle the volume of traffic currently using Stewart. (g) The use of abutting property. - • The land use on the south side of Stewart Road consists of residential property on the eastern portion and light industrial uses on the western portion. Except for one residence and an industrially zoned parcel at the northwest corner of Bailey Hill & Stewart, all the frontage on the north side is vacant, with over 75% being in public ownership with an open space designation. The publicly owned area consists of two wetland sites, one owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the other by the Oregon Department of Transportation. Residents feel that the closure will have a positive effect on the use of their abutting property. Although access will be restricted, they feel that the reduced traffic volumes will improve the livability of the street and thus have a positive .effect on the use of the abutting property. Further, a decrease in the use of the road will slow the road's deterioration. Administrative Order 58-99-05, Findings