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The removal comes less than two weeks after the county entered a $750,000 contract with the non-profit City Net to provide services to a separate group of homeless people camped on the western bank of the Santa Ana River near Angel Stadium.
The emails raise questions about whether Nelson also directed a similar removal this winter of a large homeless encampment along the river south of Angel Stadium.
Approval of the mega-development in the Platinum Triangle had been held up due to fierce opposition from Angels Baseball, but the team and the Hong Kong-based developer reached an accord in recent weeks.
The Anaheim City Council voted Tuesday to postpone a vote on a $450 million, mega-development at the Platinum Triangle after facing heavy opposition from the Major League Baseball team.
The baseball team’s representatives filed an appeal Wednesday challenging the Anaheim Planning Commission’s approval of a $450 million mixed-used development that would compete with the team’s development plans.
Just as the Angels re-open talks with the city to renew their stadium lease, team officials are opposing a proposed $500 million mixed-use project in the Platinum Triangle next to the stadium, saying it would quash their own development plans.
Wylie Aitken will replace Charles Black, a controversial figure who clashed with the city’s mayor, as a lead negotiator on a new stadium lease deal with the Angels baseball team.
The newspaper published an attack ad with an unflattering picture of Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait after rejecting a similar ad that featured a photo of Kris Murray, the mayor’s chief opponent on City Council.
City council refuses to publicly disclose new Angel Stadium appraisal
For nearly a year, Anaheim leaders have been negotiating a new stadium lease with the Angels under the premise that the ballpark requires up to $150 million in repairs. Yet the report detailing the scale of needed renovations is being kept secret. Mayor Tom Tait is now calling for its release.