SCHENECTADY — The Erie Boulevard business owners have won their first battle.

Mayor Brian U. Stratton agreed Friday to postpone next week’s meeting, at which the final version of the Erie Boulevard redesign was to be shown. No date has been set for a new meeting, and Stratton said he doesn’t know if the plan will be presented before Christmas.

Stratton had initially refused to delay the meeting, but said Friday that the Clough Harbour engineers designing the plan need more time.

They are now considering a bike lane, a left-turn onto State Street and a service road near I-890, behind the businesses on the southeast edge of the boulevard, Clough Harbour landscape architect Scott Lewendon said.

“Our design team is working with the city to consider, review and potentially incorporate as many of these new features as is practical in the scope of the overall project,” Lewendon said. “To do so and be ready with a revised design by next Thursday just isn’t feasible.”

But Stratton stressed that business owners may not get the design they want.

“We want to take those into consideration,” he said, stressing the last word. “We had a lot of information coming to us in the last month. We have enough time that we can at least afford to breathe a little bit, that we give some real thought to the ideas being brought forward, to discuss why some of them are good and why some aren’t as good as the alternatives.”

Business owners on the final block of Erie Boulevard have criticized the current plan, which involves a roundabout in the center of the boulevard, about half a block away from State Street. A median would also block traffic from crossing to the other side of the road before or after the roundabout, but would allow vehicles to make a u-turn just before the I-890 on-ramp.

Business owners have proposed a series of ideas that could be used instead of the roundabout, and asked Stratton on Monday to postpone the final meeting until their ideas could be vetted by the engineers. They were hoping a delay would lead to Clough Harbour substantially changing the plan.

Sarah Michener, owner of Annabel’s on Ferry Street, said “We want to be positive, but we feel this drawing does not meet our needs.”

Councilwoman Barbara Blanchard supported their request.

“One of the Clough Harbour engineers is away all week this week,” she said. “So I don’t know how much time he’s had to incorporate and address our concerns … It doesn’t seem to me that they’re ready to go prime time on the 18th.”

Stratton said the meeting, whenever it occurs, will specifically address property owner Carl Liss’ detailed proposal for the street.

“We want to talk about why those things will work or won’t work,” Stratton said. “People deserve to know why.”

Liss offered drawings with a “stretched-out” roundabout, essentially turning the last block of Erie Boulevard into two one-way traffic lanes separated by a narrow median and connected by U-turns at both ends. His plan also calls for a service road behind the businesses on the southeast edge of the boulevard. Drivers could enter from I-890 and park in new lots built behind the stores.

Lewendon has said he wanted to include a service road, but couldn’t afford to do it and the roundabout within the project’s $14 million budget. The project has been primarily funded through state and federal grants.