Council members Tuesday will consider requests for tax rebates worth a half a billion in new tax dollars from the developers of three luxury hotel projects, including a proposal from Disneyland for the largest subsidy in the city’s history.
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Anaheim City Council Passes Strict Short-Term Rental Ban
After a marathon special meeting, a split council approved a ban that gives the city’s 363 permitted short-term rental operators 18 months to phase out their businesses.
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End of an Elmahrek
After more than six years of holding the powerful accountable in Orange County, Adam Elmahrek is leaving for the Los Angeles Times.
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Disneyland Asking for Largest Hotel Tax Subsidy in Anaheim History
The mega resort is asking for a subsidy worth well over $200 million from the city to build a new luxury hotel. Anaheim’s mayor called the request “insane.”
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LeTourneau: Hooray for Minimum Wage, Shame On Assembly Member Tom Daly
Could Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Daly’s vote against the minimum wage bill create sparks at tonight’s Orange County Democratic Party Central Committee meeting in Orange?
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Anaheim Might Steer $320 Million in Tax Subsidies to Hoteliers
City Manager Paul Emery confirmed the city could award room-tax subsidies for three or four upcoming luxury hotel projects. With this news, deep divisions among council members resurfaced at Tuesday’s meeting.
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Anaheim Tennis Center Project Moves Forward Despite Mayor’s Disapproval
The city’s plans to spend millions on a private tennis center have outraged Latino activists and Mayor Tom Tait. “It just doesn’t seem to go away,” Tait said of the project that he was able to nix from the budget in 2013.
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A ‘People’s’ Victory in Anaheim
In a rare win for the city’s activists, the City Council Tuesday night voted to restore a council districts map, known as the “people’s map,” that has broad community support and put a Latino-majority district up for election in 2016.
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Protesters Shut Down Anaheim Council Meeting
The meeting ended in chaos Tuesday night as protesters shouted down the council majority after it became clear it would not reverse a decision to scrap a district elections map that had broad community support.
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Anaheim City Council Stalls Transition to District Elections
In a split 3-2 vote that angered Latino residents, the council majority decided to scrap the so-called “people’s map” of election districts and push back the transition from an at-large system of electing council members to districts-based elections.
