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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Disney has received a cardinal support to grow its Southern California taxable parks successful its archetypal propulsion to marque large changes to its iconic Disneyland successful decades.
The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to o.k. the program to alteration Disney's 490-acre (488-hectare) field successful densely-populated Southern California by moving parking to a multi-story operation and redeveloping a monolithic batch with caller amusement and rides. It was a second, required ballot for the program aft the assembly gave archetypal support past month. The approved zoning changes and ordinances necessitate different 30 days for changes to instrumentality effect.
The connection doesn't grow the parks' carnal footprint but volition assistance Disney make new, immersive experiences for visitors by gathering a onshore specified arsenic the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” oregon the critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia.” It requires Disney to put astatine slightest $1.9 cardinal successful the task implicit the adjacent decennary and walk tens of millions of dollars connected thoroughfare improvements, affordable lodging and different infrastructure successful the metropolis of 345,000 people.
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 country successful the metropolis 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.
Disneyland was the second-most visited taxable parkland successful the satellite successful 2022 with 16.8 cardinal radical coming done the gates, according to a study by the Themed Entertainment Association and AECOM.
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