A Millbrae City Council meeting descended into a shouting match Tuesday as the council and city residents debated a San Mateo County plan to convert a hotel into low-income housing.
Nearly three hours of comments from the council and the public followed a presentation by San Mateo County Manager Mike Callagy at Tuesday's meeting on the planned purchase of the 99-room La Quinta Inn & Suites.
The most significant concern for many, including Millbrae Mayor Ann Schneider, is the loss of an estimated $600,000 annually in hotel occupancy taxes. Schneider says that the city currently lacks funding for many of its current priorities, including building a city pool and setting up an aquatics program, or repairing roads, which Schneider says are the among the worst in the county. ," Schneider said. "What is the one advantage we have by being the closest community to SFO? Hotels.
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