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The hotel will be built at 1400 El Camino Real at Glenwood Avenue in Menlo Park, the former site of a Shell gas station. The commission decided to accept the hotel’s transient occu- pancy tax, estimated to add up to about $604,000 a year in revenue for the city, as a sufficient public Image courtesy city of Menlo Park. A rendering of a 61-room, four-story hotel at 1400 El Camino Real in Menlo Park proposed by the Portola Valley-based Pollock Financial benefit for the community in Group. This view is from El Camino Real looking east. exchange for the right to build at a higher density than would other- There would be 75 underground employees and guests, and addi- Gold, but representatives from created a good precedent for the wise be allowed. parking spots — one spot less tional transit subsidies for employ- Pollock Financial Group said the Planning Commission to accept The hotel could be 48 feet than the required amount — but ees, the representatives said. There plans can’t yet guarantee anything the promise of hotel tax revenue high, instead of the 38 feet that because the garage would be run would be an electric bike sharing beyond the “Silver” status. in exchange for building at the would otherwise be allowed, and by valets, more cars could be fit program, whereby hotel guests The building would have solar additional “bonus” level. The hotel would have a floor-area ratio into the spaces, representatives of could check out pedal-assisted panels to produce hot water, and would have had to pay the hotel (total square feet of building space Pollock Financial said. Additional bikes to travel around town, with technology in guest rooms to tax to the city anyway, he said. divided by the lot’s square footage) parking could be available in the free helmets and locks. Hotel reduce energy use while the rooms Commissioners John Kadvany of 1.49, rather than the 1.1 that parking lot of Language Pacifica, employees would also have bike are not in use. Landscaping, and Katherine Strehl said that they would be allowed without a public on the other side of Glenwood parking, showers and lockers. the representatives said, would wanted the hotel tax revenue to go benefit. Avenue, yielding a total of 115 Under current plans, the hotel incorporate native and drought- toward funding improvements in The L-shaped hotel would have potential available spots, the rep- would meet the building sustain- resistant plants. the El Camino Real/downtown a restaurant and bar with indoor resentatives said. ability guidelines to get LEED Sil- Still, there were some lingering specific plan area. Currently, hotel and outdoor seating, and an event To reduce traffic, the hotel will ver certification. It could meet the concerns. Commissioner Drew tax revenues go to the city’s general room. provide Caltrain GO passes for all next, more stringent level, LEED Combs said he didn’t think it fund. A Neighborhood feathers ruffling over Cuckoo’s Nest club Private techies’ club in Menlo Park wants to serve alcohol, host recreational events. By Sue Dremann edent that would be set by granting When BootUp took over the for- Palo Alto Weekly the permit. mer Willow Garage space in 2014, The Cuckoo’s Nest name pays the company inherited the original enlo Park and Palo Alto homage to the Ken Kesey novel use-occupancy permit, which con- residents living near San “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s tained both an office and food-ser- MFrancisquito Creek say a Nest.” (Kesey was part of a CIA- vice facility. The company turned proposed bar at a private club for funded study on LSD at the Menlo the food-service operation into a Silicon Valley entrepreneurs should Park Veterans’ Affairs Hospital.) private club to expand socializing not be allowed because it is too The company bills Cuckoo’s between investors, CEOs and close to their homes. Nest as a private membership club startups and with the hope of add- BootUp Ventures, the master that brings together startups and a ing alcohol on a permanent basis. tenant at the office building at 68 select group of international and The private, selective member- Willow Road in Menlo Park, and local CEOs and investors who ship helps offset operating costs, its sub-tenant, the Cuckoo’s Nest want to enjoy each other’s com- Mr.