MOUNTAIN VIEW — City planners have taken a cleaver to Google’s blueprint to build new office space for 10,000 workers under seven giant, translucent domes, recommending that the city shelve as much as 70 percent of what the tech company wants to build.

The nature-oriented project of tech offices interwoven with public paths and shops almost perfectly fits the vision set by Mountain View leaders, according to a city document published late Thursday, except for one thing: It’s too big.

The blow to Google’s plans was a boon to LinkedIn, which received a thumbs-up from city evaluators for its own big expansion project, and would give the company more than twice as much space as Google.

The two tech companies and five other developers will appear before the City Council on Tuesday in what some city leaders have called a “beauty contest” to compete for a finite amount of space the city allows for new real estate development in the business district northeast of Highway 101.

“We get to play a little bit of Solomon,” said Mayor John McAlister. “I’d like to see everybody be able to build something.”

Google’s vice president of real estate, David Radcliffe, said in an emailed statement he was “surprised by the staff’s recommendations” and looks forward to making a case for a “full proposal” on Tuesday.

The seven developers want to build 5.8 million square feet of buildings in the North Bayshore neighborhood, but the city allows no more than 2.2 million. Google’s project alone exceeds that amount. Construction could be years away because the proposals allowed to move forward next week will still need to be submitted for the city’s formal planning reviews. The council’s job will be “to cut the baby in half,” said City Councilman Lenny Siegel.

The fact that Google’s proposal encompasses four separate sites appears to give the tech giant some leeway, allowing it to construct an awe-inspiring corporate hub even if some of its parts are rejected. But unlike LinkedIn, Google’s two biggest proposals now sit on land the city would like to reconsider for future housing development. That reflects the shifting priorities of a new political slate elected to the City Council after campaigning to address the housing shortage that is pricing out Silicon Valley residents who can’t afford million-dollar homes or rising rents.

It also puts Google in direct competition with neighbor LinkedIn, which has proposed with development partner SyWest to build a dense office, retail, hotel and cinema complex near the freeway. That project also meets the city’s objectives, the staff report said.

The rankings of how each project would reduce traffic and improve the character, natural habitat and public amenities of the North Bayshore district were published as part of the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting. The City Council doesn’t have to follow those guidelines when it rules which projects can go forward.

Not meeting the city’s standards, according to the staff report, were two of the seven projects: a 200-room hotel proposed by the Shashi Group and a speculative office development by Peery Arrillaga. City staff also proposed rejecting part of an office development by The Sobrato Organization.

Because they are the biggest, the proposals by LinkedIn and Google will be the hardest to squeeze through without cutting down.

Google views its series of canopied buildings as one integrated project. The goal is to “eliminate the sea of parking” and “bring the nature back, both outside and inside the buildings,” said Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, speaking Tuesday at a design conference in San Francisco.

“These campuses can’t be sort of hermetic castles,” Ingels said. “They have to open up and be neighborhoods.”

Google would tear up surface parking lots and centralize parking into one big spot hidden beneath parks and buildings on Landings Drive, pledging to “make traffic better” by getting people to use bicycles and shuttles.

“This is critical: We will not add new parking,” Jeral Poskey, author of Google’s transportation management plan, wrote in an email Thursday. “The act of limiting parking will force more employees to choose alternative transportation over driving alone.”

But skepticism remains from Mountain View residents sick of traffic, and some City Council members are fielding concerns from residents worried about letting one company — namely, Google — dominate the city’s economy.

As she prepares to take a red pen to the proposals, Vice Mayor Pat Showalter said she is pleased with the creative designs and the public benefits — from wildlife restoration to cash for transportation improvements — that each company is pitching in.

“That makes my job harder, but the outcome for the community way better,” she said.

Contact Matt O’Brien at 408-920-5011. Follow him at Twitter.com/mattoyeah.