Anaheim residents concerned over Disney’s plan to buy public roads
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- Anaheim residents are concerned over plans for Disneyland to buy a public road from the city as part of its Disneyland Forward project proposal. trib.al/GMhvPSe
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The only reason Anaheim is even a city now is because of Disneyland. These are like people complaining about an Airport that was there long before they even moved there.
It's just like the people that buy homes just outside the Laguna Seca race track up north and complain about the noise from the race track... race track was there before you. Could've bought a home somewhere else.
Also I have a hard time believing the guy getting upset that his short cut to the 5 will be gone. As if its a short cut! There's so much traffic backed up on Disneyland Drive leading up to Ball Rd and to the 5 freeway entrance, there's no way that it's faster going that route.
@makayla5227inherited or not, there weren't homes there before Disneyland. It was orange groves and agriculture back then.
Anaheim came first, settled by German immigrants. The first wineries in California were in Anaheim, then farm land and orange orchards. Disney bought several farm parcels under assumed entities as to not draw attention and increase speculation. Anaheim most definitely was there first.
@@MeMeDaVinci well if you zoom out even further, there were native Americans there even before then lol. The point is the HOMES surrounding Disneyland were not there before DL.
At least Anaheim has the Ducks and Angels, but the only reason they’re even here is because of Disneyland
$40 million or save one guys shortcut to the 5 freeway. Hmmmm decisions decisions.
I’m sure it’s not just one guy. Especially now that’s it’s made public.
Ok ok 2 guys.
@@JeremyWomack😂 You are awesome. Great comment.
@@alexmendez3681 Thank you. Much appreciated.
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If only Walt would have bought more land back in the early 1950s.
That's a dumb comment. He couldn't even afford to build the hotel and you are wishing for something that could not have been imagined, even in Walt's wildest dreams.
@@MeMeDaVinci I'm well aware Walt Disney only got enough funds for a minimal park from Commerce Bank, Bank of America and future The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC.
@Vinci Making rude comments is always the dumb comment there bud
@@MThomasB that's MeMeDaVinci to you "bud", and it's still a dumb comment
@@Einsteinbomb Look that one up, didja? Disney also had other entities purchase the land under other names so people wouldn't inflate the cost of their parcels on speculation that Disney would be building something. That was all farm land...and those farmers got cheated. It wasn't all one parcel of land. I worked for the Wrathers back in the 80s so I'm well aware of the impact of Walt not having the funds to build a hotel...
And now Disney wants to buy property that borders housing (generating property taxes) and thoroughfares that people use daily? Is there no end?
it’s practically on their property how is it effecting residents at all?
Practically isn't reality.
The noise plus I think it’s a great idea as in take that Governor of Florida
I don’t live there but magic way is right I’m front of some apartments called pepper wood
It's not on their property. It's on the north side of their property. On south side you have Disney and on the north you have a parking lot that is owned by Anaheim (or the taxpayers thereof). How does it affect? I use it every morning to go to del taco for breakfast or Jack in the box, or carls jr.
@@thelogicalthinker5337None of those are anywhere near Magic Way lol.
I mean disney will probably do better upkeep than the city is
Actually, it's Disney that upkeeps the resort area (which that street is in), not the city. At 6am there are workers on all the streets in and around the resort, pressure washing sidewalks and hand wiping all the light poles and street signs around Disneyland. If there is any graffiti, it is removed within hours.
Are you blind? That street is immaculate, and very well kept. When things are public, they are subject to citizen, input, and democratic rule. When they are private, they are not.
The reason the city is the way it IS BECAUSE of disney - they cause a raise the prices for the locals, only care about upkeeping their own property, and all while praising tourism that destroys the integrity of living in the area - such an ignorant comment
@@legacyjeetkunedo492that’s because of Disney Not the city 😂 Disney keeps their stuff nice because they want their parks to look spectacular u won’t see homeless people on a Disney street
Yes 100%
Magic way is not a short cut. Once they turn left now they are getting into resort traffic.
I was thinking the same thing
Yeah, that dude was completely bs. No one in their right mind could see Magic Way as anything but a "Disney Street"
I think there needs to be a bypass for locals to avoid the resort traffic. That area has a lot of traffic including Disneyland, Anaheim Stadium, numerous hotels, the Anaheim Convention Center, the Honda Center, two Chapman University Dormitory buildings, retail, and a lot of apartments.
WRONG. Have you ever been there? Going east on Magic way and you turn left it takes you to the 5 freeway. Going west on Magic Way you can't turn left. Only right turn and it goes into a residdential area where the locals who use that road live.
@thelogicalthinker5337 I have been living in Anaheim for 42 years and have been working Disney for 23 years. I think I know the area.
Why not, less for tax payers to maintain
BINGO. Have you seen their roads in Florida? They’re pristine and well maintained
@@mikegeiler2347 And $40 million to the City of Anaheim isn’t so bad either
Do Disneyland in Northern California
This should maybe go without saying but if Anaheim residents are so concerned about traffic and the possibility of losing a “shortcut” to beat said traffic, then perhaps they should consider living in a place where traffic problems don’t exist, like not near a globally popular tourist attraction like a Disney park. Idk, just a thought…
Yet someone else who doesn't live in Anaheim.
I find it funny people say this until things like this happen around where they live
Or even better, Anaheim citizens could push to improve our public transit, cycling, and pedestrian infrastructure to reduce traffic.That would be a win-win for everyone ... except for the automotive and oil industrial complex.
@@brickman409 improving public transit in canada and the US cities would be far to expensive to ever really be worht it until it was a major project the cities poured the majority of multiple years budgets into. the problem is they were most all built after the car was invented to the layouts of them are designed for the car.
sadly its not such an easily solved problem
Turn the whole city of Anaheim into Disneyland resort, maybe it would be bigger Tham Walt Disney world.
Using Magic Way as a “shortcut” means a lot of locals just fly by there and cause more traffic in the area.
well we do live here and our taxes pay for it. It's the tourists who cause the traffic. We are here first and are here everyday. Tourists just come in one or 2 days and are gone. Never to see that road again for years.
The area DIRECTLY around Disney, should be owned, and operated by Disney. ……Disney is GIVING Anaheim tens of millions of $$$ for its city parks.
Plus that guys argument wasn't really valid. It's my shortcut. Who cares about your shortcut. People around the park need to wake up. You live next to amusement park.
And they also take $2-300 from every person a day for it 🥴
@@Juann-mo4bv …..Yes, I’ve known that for 50+ years. 🤔🤷🏼♂️🤔🤷🏼♂️
@@abrahamhidalgo3605 my same exact response🤣🤣🤣🤣
I live within walking distant of Disneyland. If they give me 2 mil for my house, I’m out of there! Quite frankly out of California the way this State is going!😂
Anaheim would not be what it is today without Disney.
Anaheim came first. Disney was an afterthought.
@@MeMeDaVinci Who came first is really irrelevant. Anaheim would be a ghetto if it wasn't for Disney. There's a reason locals call the city Anacrime.
@@steevieg parts of anaheim are ghetto....go down beach blvd....the only nice area s are around angel stad and disneyland.
In 1955, there were only a few motels and lots of orange groves. We as a family asked pop to buy some of those orange groves near Disney land in 1955-56. Had a friend's family do just that, him also..now have$$$$$$$$$...
With tickets at $150-185 a day, they can't rake in the money fast enough. The Disney parks made $32 BILLION last year.
Wow it’s that much now! Haven’t been in like 13 years. Damn it doubled in price
Correction, it’s $134-$194 per guest 10+ depending on day. And that’s for an adult. However, SoCal residents are given the opportunity to get an annual pass with a down payment for less than the price of a peak day ticket with a monthly payment that is equivalent to a mid season ticket. It’s not really that expensive to go being a SoCal resident. Lol
So what? And we all love going there. I know for myself. It’s my happy place.
@@truckingwithtobee saaaaaame!!!
Is $32 billion profit? If not gotta be alot less. Those parks are beyond expensive to run and maintain.
It's just "small portions" of streets. Anaheim will still maintain the lush greenery of the soon-to-be dead end streets.
I frequent that street to walk to downtown Disney and I say let Disney have it. There is almost no foot traffic besides those doing the same as me and even less cars. Most cars on that road are either for downtown Disney or parking garage anyway. A ghost town of a road
I’ll miss the shortcut, but more revenue and jobs in the area is better than some people’s supposed shortcut to the 5
You know what they’re gonna buy it anyway
I can’t say city of Anaheim has managed it all that well anyway
Guess you have never been there. It's immaculate.
@@thelogicalthinker5337that’s because Disney manages that area.
I live in the area and find it absurd that this 1,050 ft. road is such a sticking point for a few people. It’s overwhelmingly used by park visitors and the small handful of people who DO use it as a cut through shouldn’t get to veto a plan that’s overwhelmingly beneficial to Anaheim & the surrounding areas.
I would approve of this only if Orange County would allow LA Metro to extend their west Santa Ana branch corridor from the gateway cities to Disneyland via 2 right of ways that are basically unused, allowing guests another option to access the resort, and I’m sure Mr Disney would approve of this in his grave because Disneyland only exists only because of his love of trains.
Anaheim needs a negotiator and get $60M
I remember when there were large housing tracts neighborhoods near Disneyland in the 80;s my childhood friend house which u could see the matterhorn lived a block from Disney his parents later on sold the property to Disney. Disney owns about 95% of anaheim that is crazy !! good times in the old Disney neighborhoods
Where DCA currently stands
@@andreasmith5396 DCA is on the original parking lot
95%?! 😅
Can you see my "It Sure Matters-Horn" ??🙃
95% 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you do know that anaheim is bigger than just the resort area right?
Have you seen the other streets in Anaheim? LOL!!! Rough and falling apart...
Let Disney have it.
Knott’s Berry Farm Rules!!
A better idea would be for Disney to build a community of homes just like they are doing out in the Coachella valley and then exchange that property for city property that way people have a place to live, and Disneyland can expand their footprint.
Actually, I think that’s what is happening if my memory serves me right. They wanna build affordable housing near the parks. What they mean by “affordable” is uncertain lol
@@slamovgod I guess it just means "below market value".
@@sleepcrime who honestly knows. I’m curious to see what they do.
As someone who lives in Anaheim, one of the hotels that was built a couple of years ago used to be apartments. Kicked everyone out and destroyed the building to make hotels for guest. The rent and homes here are too expensive and Anaheim/OC is considered a wealthy area when in reality it’s not. Knotts Berry Farm would never destroy people’s homes for more property.
When I was in AZ, we had a whole block of houses demoed in exchange for a community college housing plan. All those residents were left to “figure it out” and didn’t get any sort of compensation worthy of the relocation.
@@slamovgod exactly what happened with the residents living in the apartment I mentioned. Imagine the struggle of just finding some other place to live.
You do realise it Florida would be wasteland without Disney there.
@@NicholasJH96 rightttttt! its not like Florida is home to the most popular tourist beaches in the south... there's no way there would be any infrastructure in the entire state without the help of Mickey Mouse... you people are weird
Don’t be so sure if Knott’s Berry Farm had Disneyland, money trusted and know they would do the same thing also, if that apartment building was on Disneyland property, they have all right to do whatever they want with their property And you know every detail about it did Disney write these people a check to leave their apartment?
Concerned? They would mostly likely take better care of them better than any City or Town.
I do not live in the area, and would not be affected by the potential change in Disneyland purchasing the streets in question.
I am in favor of Disneyland purchasing all of the streets put forth in the proposal.
Magic Way is not the only road available to access the Northbound 5 freeway.
Katella and Ball road are available.
Ball road would be the closest equivalent to Magic Way.
The residents along Walnut, West of the Disneyland property, are seperated by a tree lined median.
There are 2 side streets off of Walnut that allow for a left turn to head North onto Walnut.
All other streets are directed South onto Walnut.
The speeding vehicles going North/South on Walnut is of greater concern to the general welfare of all that live and work in this area of Anaheim.
A traffic light, to stop the speeding traffic, and dedicated cross walk with gated access to the Disneyland property sounds like a wonderful allowance to the residences West of Disneyland.
So do we the public get a refund for the Tax money we paid that went toward the public streets if they sell it ???
Not with my money. I stopped going many years ago.
Go for it Disneyland make the park bigger!!!! Expand it
Let’s get this deal done
I guess is a done deal the way she explained it pretty much sums it all. It’s done.
Someone got hit and passed away by a drunk driver on that road. Buy it make it more safe for guest to walk down, f*** ur short cut
Last time I went to Disneyland walking back to the car. That street right there has no way into the parking garage you have to go to the pedestrian bridge to get in. It would be nice for it to be Disneylands street so that they can make it safe for people crossing and make an entrance there and not just an exit.
I’m all for it if Bob Iger takes a 75% pay cut and redirect that pay cut towards paying full and part time CM better also maintenance on the attractions that they have. Everyday at Disneyland and California Adventure, there are attractions that keeps breaking down
They should have the road pass underground tunnel and have on ramps and off ramps at the hotels. Then, they can have the floor level to use.
roadway tunnels are expensive, and would need long ramps to get in and out of them, it would not be worth it.
@timogul they already have Disney Way dip down under Downtown Disney bridge they just need to continue the whole road the same way and engineer it so you can get to the hotels on either side.
Some dude uses that as a shortcut to save himself like 5 minutes. Yea i hope Disney takes out that street.
The sad thing is i lived on west street and in the RV parks from the 70 - 2005... I went to loara .
MY HOME
THe strawberry field and all that history and places were destroyed .. and that i find sad
Ugh❤ I was so nervous at first.
I love how he handled for the people who may not have understood in the back❤❤❤
Only the people who know nothing about Anaheim or living in the area are making stupid comments. Anaheim is a landlocked city, which means there is only so much room. The city has a population of over 345,000. Tax revenue comes from the residents, its not all Disney.
I live in the area & support the purchase of Magic Way. Of course Disney doesn’t pay for all of tax revenue, but it did account for more than half of Anaheim’s General Fund in the 22-23 budget. That’s not pennies.
(According to one source I googled) The resort makes up $226 million of the $482 million general fund revenue. Almost 50% of tax revenue from one company. Obviously residents are paying taxes, but the city of Anaheim would be in even worse shape if Disney wasn't there.
@@steevieg How so? Disney taxes take care of Disney, residential taxes take care of the residential neighborhoods. Duh...
I remember in 1995 my girlfriend’s dad worked for some big time underground electrical company based out of Garden Grove. He attended a meeting that showed Disney plans for almost half the city to be connected with more parks and a monorail to connect and use for travel from each landmark. Looks like one more step that way 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Disney was there first, so too bad!
Those are the taxpayers streets
They are no longer an affordable place to go as it is. Who do you think will wind up paying for it?
Tell that to the thousands of people that go to Disneyland every single day
Its definitely affordable just not dirt cheap. That park stays packed. Just a juggernaut at making cash.
What they SHOULD do is some underground walkways similar to some of the subway lines that are bridged by underground shopping malls in Japan such as Kamiyacho Shareo in Hiroshima.
As is right now, surface traffic at Katella and Harbor is already a nightmare, getting pedestrians underground would be a huge improvement.
I’m all for more pedestrian streets
I use to work there and took those roads to work to the hotels, and honestly it’s always felt like a part of Disney anyway. I don’t know how they’ll rework clementine with the 5fw access being there, I imagine that wouldn’t be going away.
Yes expand the park !!!
Erin Ryan, the City of Anaheim public affairs rep, could easily be mistaken for a Disney spokesperson.
If a company owns both sides of a street that serves nothing but their own property - the city should be happy to sell it to them.
Disney is in financial dire straits. They need to knuckle down and review how they're spending, where they're losing millions, and stop those issues first. Instead they intend to "expansion" their way out of this. They should be addressing their serious internal spending/failure issues but instead want to build another source of revenue so that senior management can continue making mistakes. No lessons learned. I'm for Nelson Peltz at this point. Iger's got to go.
The parks never lose money. They just need to stop making crap movies.
Oh my!
I wish a private company would buy our streets then they coud relocate all the homeless.
locals dont use this street . its irrelevant . plus, seeing how anaheim residents look at disney is asinine .. they helped make your city a beautiful place and a destination to many people..... , . chill.
INSTEAD OF APPROVING A HUGE BOTANICAL GARDEN this crap that's probably going to NOT BE AFFORDABLE for the average Californian gets approved.. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Let Disneyland take it over
They're trippen on one tiny street that is practically disneyland lmfao
$1,000 dollar admission. Have fun.
I paid $450 for an annual pass. Thanks!
@@vicdog4440 Disney Anal Pass or Annual Pass. I didn't know Disney Annual passes were under $500 in 2024. In Florida, it is $1,200.
Maybe that one person who uses it to get to the freeway should put up the $40,000,001 to outbid Disney
Why don't the put the streets under ground? Just build tunnels. It would probably help traffic.
Screw the local residents. Disneyland needs this, plus Anaheim would be nothing without Disneyland anyway. 😁
“Uses this road to bypass traffic” … its anaheim there is no traffic.
Let them buy it, what use does the city have for those small streets anyway?
Well if it's sold it can't be sold to Disney exclusively. Need to be announced to every one . If it's public lands city property. Look at the anaheim stadium debacle
Not only that, Anaheim paid for the parking structure with taxpayer $$$. The city then rents it to Disneyland at $1 per year. Talk about ripping off the taxpayers.
@thelogicalthinker5337 yep, it's ridiculous. Disneyland, the great rip off
@@thelogicalthinker5337 just don't live in Anaheim then. Disney literally created this city, they should be able to do whetever they want there
You are correct. Walt Disney did create the city. But he died. Now investors own Disneyland. They didn't create this city. That's like saying "We The People" crreated America and we should be able to storm the Capitol and do what we want.@@tufab3494
Build under or encase local roads in tunnel.
God forbid that guy has to enter the freeway at a different on ramp
noooo
So hold up,progress because it takes away the shortcut for a few sour residents.?!
Honestly I think they should just cede the entire city of Anaheim to the Disney corporation. I was born and raised in Anaheim and moved out in 2017 after the homeless crisis and the street violence got too intense. There are drag racers in the streets and hoodlums in public areas. Garbage and petty criminals is the least of the city’s problems. However any land operated by Disney is pristine.
They should just bulldoze the city and let Disney run wild.
Bro that area was literally all dirt before Disneyland. The residents are the "invasors", not the opposite. They knew where they were building their houses at
At one point the entire world was dirt. So?
@@sdigf3167 so if you build your house near a volcano you can't complain. Same logic, my point stands
@@tufab3494 Comparing an amusement park to a volcano is just dumb. Your point is silly.
@@sdigf3167 His point is legit. It's the same people that buy or build a house to an airport then wonder why there's so much damn noise.
@@andrewscasualmtb No it is not. Disney has never encroached on surrounding housing in 69 years. Also the vast majority of houses closest to Disney PREDATE the park or were built at nearly the same time. . So no, they did not know they were building close to a park, and the ones that did could have no idea what the park would turn into, because NO other like it existed. His point is pure BS.
Disneyland will most likely buy out these streets and is going to expand there theme park.so i say these anaheim residents start kooking for a hi e elsewherw.
So what. They’ll make sure you can still get around. Anything to complain about.
Where?
Stop halting the fun Anaheim residents.
they want to expand, money talks
How about instead of buying streets to expand you use that money to help the struggling Americans and Make America Great Again
Knotts Berry Farm needs more land.. not Disneyland
Wasn't Magic Way Built by Disney????
They should be worried about crime not roads 🙄🙄🙄
One guy taking a shortcut to work vs $9 billion… I wonder who is going to win.
Magic Way…definitely isn’t that quick of a short cut to the 5 freeway…
I mean come on the street is Called magic way.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They should turn that whole area into a resort, like Epcot! I say let them buy more roads if they want! After all, Disneyland pays Anaheim’s electric bill!!!
Let Disney have it
Disney on we tried to buy portion of southern harbors for south la park but failed back then
Does Disneyland want to open land in another country to open their theme park?
not our fault disney. I don't even live in Anaheim and I hope they dont sell it
Not too big of a fan of a corporation owning a public road, but if they are going to make it more pedestrian friendly and if they are giving the city tens of of millions of dollars that could be used to improve other public infrastructure, then maybe it's not such a bad idea.
It's hardly even used as a public road to begin with. It sees light traffic, with most traffic coming from visitors to the parks.
Lets just give them the whole city. Why not they got it by the balls anyway.
I’d rather they just fix Tomorrowland but it’s the blind leading the blind over there at Disney right now.
They could build tunnel underneath the park
I was just thinking that, like why not create a new 6 lane tunnel that could be 4 for gen traffic with the other 2 used for access to Disney resort. Yes its way more expensive but its a win for both Disney and drivers - residents and tourists.
Morr price hiketo come
They should, then they can expand the park size
They can handle traffic flow way better than Cali can lol
reckon the US parks could really use that 40million$ for maintenance on what's there already but okay
I thought Disney was losing money? Lawsuits, Failing franchise and such…. Their corporate lawyers must be working harder than the poor a cast member In Mickey costume in the summer heat.
Everything has a price, it only matters who pockets that money.
Fun fact: The City of Anaheim gave Walt a public road to seal the deal. See The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide.
Screw your concerns, it's going to happen and there is nothing you can do about it so deal with it.