Anaheim City Council unanimously approves $1.9 billion Disneyland expansion project

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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Visitors to Disney's Southern California parks could 1 time locomotion done the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from "Frozen" oregon the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of "Zootopia" nether a parkland enlargement program approved by the Anaheim City Council.

After an eight-hour gathering that started Tuesday night, the City Council unanimously approved the project, 7-0. However, a 2nd assembly ballot for last support of Disney's program is scheduled for May.

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.

Also included successful the connection is simply a $30 cardinal committedness from Disney for affordable lodging crossed Anaheim. This includes backing for parks, positive thoroughfare and proscription improvements. Disney is besides estimating 9,000 operation jobs.

The program wouldn't grow Disney's footprint successful tourism-dependent Anaheim but would assistance it adhd rides and amusement by letting the institution relocate parking to a caller multi-story operation and redevelop the monolithic lot, arsenic good arsenic marque different changes to however it uses its properties.

Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and the Downtown Disney buying country are surrounded by freeways and residential areas successful the city, truthful the institution sees the program arsenic captious to being capable to proceed to make sizable caller attractions.

Despite the greenish airy from metropolis leaders, reactions from the nationalist were during the nationalist remark information of the meeting.

Many focused connected Disney's plans to bargain a nationalist thoroughfare adjacent the taxable parkland and crook it into a pedestrian walkway arsenic good arsenic its volition to adhd a crosswalk connected different neighboring street.

"We're a Disney household and I'm excited for the caller rides that this enlargement could bring. However, I consciousness betrayed that Magic Way is up for sale," 1 pistillate said.

"You're going to adjacent a thoroughfare to privatize it," different talker said. "We already person our streets overtaken by tourists that don't privation to wage the parking interest astatine Disney - and what bash we get retired of it?"

Ken Potrock, president of the Disneyland Resort, said astatine the meeting: "We are acceptable to bring the adjacent level of immersive amusement present to Anaheim." Over the past 2 decades, Disney investments person included Cars Land, Pixar Pier, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Avengers Campus.

Disney has not committed to which stories it plans to diagnostic fixed that the caller improvement volition instrumentality years.

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 Disneyland, its archetypal taxable parkland dubbed "the happiest spot connected Earth" and built successful 1955, into a edifice hub. It aboriginal built the Disney California Adventure taxable parkland and the Downtown Disney buying and amusement area.

If the program is fixed last approval, it would into effect June 7.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.