How do I disable the zeroconf route so that the system will boot without the 169.254.0.0 / 255.255.0.0 route?

Issue

• Every time the system boots, the zeroconf route (169.254.0.0) is enabled. We manually disable it by turning off the firewall and remove the route with 169.254.0.0 / 255.255.0.0 using the route command.
• Example output of the route with the zeroconf route enables would like similar to the following:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.15.50.0      *               255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0