This new development won't be what causes traffic gridlock. It is the existing low-density single family home land use that you moved there for that is already causing gridlock.  Building housing right beside schools, CKC, grocery (and soon other businesses) is how we attract people who don't want to drive everywhere. People who want to walk their kids to school, walk to the grocery store, ride their bike to school/work on the Cross Kirkland Corridor. Take the 255 into Seattle or the 245 to Microsoft or Factoria.

I have lived in both Houghton and Everest. With my most recent move I wanted to live in this neighborhood but the housing type I wanted did not exist.