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As the city's fourth lodging opens in the same number of years, spectators eye the accomplishment of area use impetuses that goad inn advancement as city pioneers battle to cut out moderate lodging in expensive Palo Alto.
The Clement, a 23-suite upscale lodging, opened a month ago with rooms costing at any rate $799 a night. Before that, a spree of inns - Epiphany, Hilton Garden Inn and Hilton Homewood Suites - added to the city's brief hotel.
This week, city authorities remarked on a proposition by the current Hotel Parmani at 3200 El Camino Real to extend from 36 to around 100 rooms.
What's more, two new lodgings, the Marriott Courtyard and AC Hotel, are under audit for the 744-750 San Antonio Ave. site.
The proposed San Antonio ventures have been met with resistance from the group, predominately inhabitants of the Greenhouse I and II tracts who scowl at the inns' style, mass and conceivable effect on movement clog.
One inhabitant, Joan Larrabee, has encouraged the designer to consider lodging or a blended use improvement.
"It's a perfect spot for more townhouses and apartment suites," Larrabee said. "We have the library, two grade schools, the group focus, little markets and it's a half-mile to the Bay. An inn is simply not suitable here."
Larrabee needs to know why city authorities would favor another lodging when there is a deficiency of lodging for perpetual occupants who might be dynamic donors to the group.
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