The "do over" for the Menlo Park planing on ECR for more housing to satisfy the state's requirement for affordable housing has a big flaw. It is the Stat's requirement, which is based in part on the expansion of the California population by several million in the next 5-10 years. There is really just enough water for the current number of people here. Developers do not really have to worry about where their water supply comes from - that is left to the water companies who are told to supply it - from where?? Nor do the developers usually have to supply arterial roads to serve their new area. That is left to the cities, counties and the state, none of whom have sufficient funds to even maintain the present stock of roads. No new roads, more congestion. We are rapidly becoming like Los Angles. -- I cannot visit my daughter for dinner, because at that time, 280 from Page Mill to San Jose is a 10-15 mile per hour snailway. In the mornings, getting from my home in Ladera to Palo Alto or Mountain View is slowed very much by Stanford traffic. For the same reason,I try not to schedule a trip home between 4 and 6 PM. The roads are clogged.
So much for foresight to accommodate a few million more people.