Menlo Park neighborhood group battles owner's plan to convert Red Cottage Inn to bigger hotel

The owner of Menlo Park’s Red Cottage Inn has plans to convert the property into a hotel three times the size. Yet neighbors of the 28-room hotel at 1704 El Camino Real have threatened to appeal, the East Bay Times reports.

Owner Sagar Patel, who hopes to replace the current hotel with a 68-room Hampton Inn, said he’s spent the last 16 months meeting with residents and ensuring the proposal meets all of the city’s requirements.

According to the Almanac, the most recent proposal clocks in…