NEWPORT BEACH

Dunes project managers have cut back the number of rooms and amount of meeting space for their proposed Newport Beach resort in an effort to lower estimated traffic increases by 25%, a move developers hope will reduce community opposition.

Hotel proponents are hoping the compromises will enable them to complete the planning process by spring, well before an impending slow-growth measure in the city has a chance to clamp down on their project.

The revisions include reducing traffic by 1,170 daily car trips, from 4,800 to 3,630 trips; 30 fewer rooms, from 400 to 370; and a 9,000-square-foot decrease in meeting space, from 55,000 to 46,000 square feet.