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Some business owners feel that the closure will have a negative effect on the use <br />of their property. The same restrictions in traffic flow that appeal to residents is <br />seen by business owners as a liability that increases costs and can lead to lost <br />income if customers find more accessible businesses. <br />As most of the businesses on Stewart do not have retail operations, there should <br />be little lost business due to the reduction in drive-by traffic. Businesses are <br />concerned about a decrease in business due to a reduction in the number of drive- <br />by trips. The reduction in drive-by trips is not considered a significant issue, as <br />businesses on Stewart Road are not of the type that typically depend on easy <br />access, high visibility, and high traffic volumes on the adjacent street for their <br />customer base. The industrial property is zoned I-2, a zoning which permits retail <br />sales only "...when secondary, directly related, and limited to products <br />manufactured, repaired, or assembled on the development site" (Eugene Code, <br />9.450 (e-1)). Retail sales at Euphoria Chocolate, the only business with a retail <br />outlet, may have been affected, but this should be a minor concern, as the retail <br />portion of the business is, by Code definition, secondary. <br />Costs to businesses should also not increase much, as the 1996 weight limit <br />restriction on the eastern.section of Stewart Road (Admin. Order 58-96-07) <br />prohibited trucks over eight tons from using Stewart. This means that larger <br />trucks making pick-ups or deliveries to businesses on Stewart would already be <br />traveling the route made mandatory by the closure. <br />Business costs would increase to the extent that local trucks of less than eight tons <br />are now unable to use Stewart Road when their origin or destination is to the east. <br />This impact is minor and of little consequence; during the six hours of the April <br />1998 Origin and Destination Study only three trucks with local destinations drove <br />on the eastern portion of Stewart Road. <br />Trucks in excess of eight tons have previously been prohibited from using the <br />eastern portion of Stewart, so the affected local trips are most likely not business <br />trips but probably employees coming to and going from work. <br />(h) The intensity of use of the street by vehicles and pedestrians. <br />• Intensity of use of Stewart Road is discussed in section (a)(2). As discussed <br />there, the closure has reduced the intensity of use of the street by vehicles. This <br />decrease in intensity of use will slow the decline of Stewart Road without causing <br />a significant inconvenience to users of the Road. <br />• The use of the street by pedestrians or bicyclists will not be affected. Provisions <br />will be made fo provide pedestrian and bicycle access through the barricade <br />(i) The physical condition and characteristics of the street and abutting property< <br />• Stewart Road is a two-way, two lane street. The eastern portion, approximately <br />1,450 feet long, is an unimproved, approximately 20 foot wide roadway in very <br />Administrative Order 58-99-05, Findings <br />