This is a Cart before the Horse issue. The City is proposing to adopt general plan revisions (the Cart) analyzed by consultant’s transportation tests, which do not comply with the city’s present Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) or Circulation System Assessment (CSA) document (the Horse). The City proposes to wait to examine and amend the Horse in 2018 or 2019, well after the Cart begins rolling through our neighborhoods.

It is right "on point" to slow things down until serious plans for traffic mitigation are put in place. It's unfathomable that our city would knowingly sign off on a plan that doesn't seriously address the impact of all of our development projects on traffic. Everything is mitigatabl,...one way or another.
I am pro intelligent development. If the plan doesn't include a strategy and actions to manage what is in our control, and a strategy and actions to work at the state level on things not in our direct control, the plan is not ready for prime time.

Over the decades, in this area, I have seen so many City officials discuss analyze approve mega development projects and then be hired on after they've finished or retired by local Big Fish development companies, Stanford etc.. It is an interesting list.

Also just today I took a walk at the Bidwell Park Marsh Baylands and witnessed the gigantic Steel multi-story building popping up in front of the viewscape between the park and the mountains in the diatance. Hopefully it will not be some garish color but dark enough to blend in somehow.

Marsh and Willow Roads are the only 2 conduits from west of 101 into the M2 area. Willow Road, especially, is gridlocked much of the time. Not everyone going into that area will be coming off of 101, and Middlefield, Marsh and Willow Roads aren't big enough to handle that kind of traffic. I think it will take more than bus passes and bicycle paths to solve the problem.

The Fair Oaks neighborhood has had trouble with cut through traffic from Middlefield to Marsh for many years, and for a number of reasons - including the fact that we are both Atherton and unincorporated Menlo Park, we have not been able to solve the problem. I can only imagine what it will be like if we add hundreds of cars to that equation.

I agree that transportation issues should be addressed in a meaningful way before revisions to the general plan are adopted.

@Linda:

Is there really a 'list' of who's gone to what companies? it would be interesting for to see- please reference.