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Ordinance authorizing settlement of two lawsuits filed by BHR Operations LLC, dba Crowne Plaza and dba Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, et al. against the City and County of San Francisco for $1,613,554.74 to be distributed as follows: BHR Operations LLC $379,969.68, Hotel Nikko of San Francisco Inc. $201,741.40, Datam S.F. LLC $277,953.69, RP/Kinetic Parc 55 Owner, LLC $25,601.63, S.F. Hilton LLC $447,301.52, W2005 Argent Hotel Realty LLC $42,857.19, British Airways Plc $163,369.38, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd $74,760.25; the lawsuits were filed in San Francisco Superior Court, as Case No. CGC-10-498514 entitled BHR Operations LLC, dba Crowne Plaza and dba Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, et al. filed on April 9, 2010, and Case No. CGC-10-505526 entitled British Airways Plc v. City and County of San Francisco, et al. filed on November 19, 2010; other material terms of the settlement include the City’s retaining transient occupancy taxes collected by the Tax Collector, and the plaintiffs’ agreement to pay transient occupancy taxes in the future according to the Tax Collector’s regulations; the lawsuits involve a dispute between the City and the hotel and airline industry about whether airline crew rooms are exempt from the City’s transient occupancy tax.
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