Anaheim City Council to take up critical vote on Disneyland expansion project

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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Disney's plans to grow its taxable parks successful Anaheim volition spell earlier the City Council connected Tuesday for a captious vote.

With the projected DisneylandForward Project, the institution wants to walk $1.9 cardinal to make the spot implicit the adjacent 10 years. That includes $40 cardinal to bargain streets from the metropolis of Anaheim including Hotel Way, portion of Clementine Street and Magic Way.

The Anaheim Planning Commission past period voted to greenlight the enlargement project. The Anaheim City Council inactive needs to springiness its approval.

The projected enlargement wouldn't summation Disney's 490-acre (488-hectare) footprint successful Southern California oregon alteration what the institution already has support to build. But it could assistance the institution make caller attractions. They could spot rides and amusement options connected what is presently a sprawling, 50-acre (20-hectare) parking batch - and determination parking for Disneyland to a multistory operation - each portion keeping wrong the boundaries of a edifice surrounded by residential neighborhoods.

Disney's extremity is to make what it calls much immersive experiences for tourists, akin to the attraction Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, which opened successful California successful 2019. The institution said it doesn't yet cognize which stories would beryllium cardinal to the caller developments, but the thought is to make areas similar "Zootopia" successful Shanghai Disneyland, wherever carnal characters locomotion done a vibrant cityscape that resembles the mounting of the film.

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Right now, determination isn't capable country successful the archetypal Disneyland successful Anaheim to physique thing connected a ample standard without affecting existing attractions, which are relished by loyal, long-time visitors to the company's oldest taxable park, said Rachel Alde, Disney's elder vice president of planetary improvement and finance.

Staff for the city's Planning and Building Department has recommended Disney's exertion beryllium approved.

The task "will let america to proceed Walt's bequest of bringing Disney stories to life, close present successful Anaheim," Ken Potrock, president of Disneyland Resort, told the readying committee past period Disneyland was founded successful 1955 by Walt Disney.

It's the archetypal clip Disney has sought a large alteration to its California taxable parks since the 1990s, erstwhile the institution obtained approvals to crook its archetypal parkland into a edifice hub. It aboriginal added a 2nd park, Disney California Adventure Park, and the buying and amusement country called Downtown Disney.

The Walt Disney Co. is the genitor institution of this ABC station.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.