The battle comes as the City Council Tuesday night considers a conceptual plan that more than triples total development at the five-acre, City-owned site ("Santa Monica Council to Take Next Step in Bergamot Arts Center Development," June 8, 2017).

The plan includes the proposed 120-room, 82,600-square-foot hotel that split the Bergamot Station Advisory Committee tasked with evaluating the entire 220,000-square-foot project near a new Expo light rail line.

Also under consideration is allowing the project’s developer, the Worthe Group, to become the master leaseholder for up to five years. The proposed lease agreement with the City would limit rent hikes to only the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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