The traffic study showed that upgrades to the Charleston-Arastradero corridor would allow it to support the additional traffic from the Hyatt project. However, the partial proposal that was finally submitted (and approved) had less than one-third the density of housing (original plan had over 300 units on half the property).
As to the moratorium, nearby residents (and neighborhood associations) had been arguing unsuccessfully since the mid-1990s for a traffic study for this corridor. With three large projects pending (Hyatt, Elks Club and Campus for Jewish Life), the Planning Department recognized that a study needed to be done, and they (Planning Dept) decided that a moratorium was needed to keep pending events from making the study immediately obsolete and irrelevant. The Daily News has been told this repeatedly by the parties involved and has never presented any evidence to the contrary. But why let inconvenient facts get in the way of your agenda?
Aside on the number of housing units in the revised proposal: The initial announcement was it would be 200 units, but the current proposal is for 185.