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The Anaheim City Council is moving forward with selling the Angel Stadium land, despite calls from state lawmakers and two councilmembers to postpone the process until a final price tag is hashed out.
Anaheim City Councilmembers voted late Friday to begin selling Angel Stadium, despite an unknown final price, to a company whose only known member is Angels owner Arte Moreno.
The Anaheim City Council is moving faster to begin selling the Angel Stadium land than it’s going to take to vote on naming the second Monday in October Indigenous People’s Day.
The starting price tag for Angel Stadium, $325 million, could be much lower when the city finalizes agreements next spring, but a comparison to nearby land sales shows the starting price could already be low.
Anaheim released a proposal overview Wednesday morning to sell Angel Stadium to the team owner for $325 million after months of silence on the issue. One Councilman suspects a secret deal was negotiated months ago.
As time runs out on a controversial lease extension deadline on Dec. 31, Anaheim city council members have one regularly scheduled public meeting to hash out the details of a potential billion dollar deal revolving around 155 acres of public land in the city’s core.
Anaheim city officials are fine with allowing a dense housing development in a poor neighborhood, but reject a less dense housing development in the rich Anaheim Hills area.
Anaheim officials will apparently work off a stadium proposal from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim when private negotiations begin on Friday.
The City of Anaheim will resume talks with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Friday in an effort to hammer out a new stadium deal by the end of the year.
The Anaheim City Council minority members will now have a tougher time putting their policy proposals before the full Council after majority members decide they don’t want to hear minority-faction proposals more than once in any six-month period.