DisneylandForward

[DLR92]

I don’t know even expanding across Disneyland drive for theme park expansions is a wise move. Simba lot is more awfully closer to residential zoning.

Toy Story lot is enough for another gate but it still lacks infrastructure room needs for maintenance and daily needs to keep up running day to day operation.

 

[Elijah Abrams]

Any revived Eastern Gateway as part of Disneyland Forward will include the parking structure in that same location from the original plan, and will ensure that any issues with the bridge will be resolved and acceptable by the local community. Specifically the new plan, as I understand it, is to allow access to the bridge from Harbor and thus eliminating the rerouting of foot traffic away from the Harbor businesses. So now it would be a win-win-win for Disney, Anaheim, and the local Harbor businesses. And as I understand it, they already have acceptance of this new plan from the local Harbor businesses.

Well, maybe some stair access from both sides of Harbor to the bridge could work?

 

[el_super]

Toy Story lot is enough for another gate but it still lacks infrastructure room needs for maintenance and daily needs to keep up running day to day operation.

Toy Story is also adjacent to residential. This is the whole crux of the DisneylandForward argument and the reason why Disney is trying to woo the neighbors and community prior to asking for a vote.

 

[Disney Irish]

Well, maybe some stair access from both sides of Harbor to the bridge could work?

Yes, the updated bridge access will include an access point from street level on the Harbor business side via stairs.

 

[chadwpalm]

Toy Story is also adjacent to residential. This is the whole crux of the DisneylandForward argument and the reason why Disney is trying to woo the neighbors and community prior to asking for a vote.

It's also why they show mountains lining the west side of the expansion area, so they can use that as a talking point in convincing the residents there will be ample sound dampening.

 

[J4546]

I wish theyd build a waterpark as well, on par with volcano bay

 

[Disney Irish]

I wish theyd build a waterpark as well, on par with volcano bay

Unless its an indoor water park it wouldn't really work. Anaheim is not the same as the Orlando area which is temperate year round. You'd have the water park, especially if its outside, sitting dormant at least 3-4 months during the winter. That is a lot of real estate not to mention training time to waste for only 6-9 months of usage.

Let the Great Wolf's Lodge and other water parks in the area take up that need.

 

[Elijah Abrams]

Yes, the updated bridge access will include an access point from street level on the Harbor business side via stairs.

But there’s also the issue of where the new security checkpoints would go, because the concept art you posted had them placed before both the pedestrian path and the bridge.

 

[Disney Irish]

But there’s also the issue of where the new security checkpoints would go, because the concept art you posted had them placed before both the pedestrian path and the bridge.

Don't take the concept art I posted at face value as its from the original Eastern Gateway plan, it was just to show you where the parking structure would go. As it would still go in the same place even with a new plan. There hasn't been new concept art released to public yet, just what has been mentioned at these community events.

And the security checkpoint would likely stay where it is in the esplanade or be moved closer to the bridge end point on the Disney side. It was the compromise as part of the bridge reconfiguration to get the acceptance from the Harbor businesses.

Once they put the whole DisneylandForward plan which will include the updates to the Eastern Gateway in front of the planning commission later this fall or early next spring we'll get the updated concept art which should show all this and maybe more.

 

[Consumer]

If the security checkpoint is to stay in the esplanade, I see no reason the parking garage shouldn't have a footprint twice as large.

 

[Disney Irish]

If the security checkpoint is to stay in the esplanade, I see no reason the parking garage shouldn't have a footprint twice as large.

If the USCIS office building next to the Pumbaa lot on Manchester is now empty they can raze that building and take up the whole area with a large Parking structure. That was the "phase two" of the original project as I recall.

However I still think they want to move the transportation hub to the Harbor side.

 

[lazyboy97o]

If the USCIS office building next to the Pumbaa lot on Manchester is now empty they can raze that building and take up the whole area with a large Parking structure. That was the "phase two" of the original project as I recall.

However I still think they want to move the transportation hub to the Harbor side.

Incorporating a transportation hub into a parking structure would not be difficult.

 

[Disney Irish]

Incorporating a transportation hub into a parking structure would not be difficult.

Very true if they really wanted to make a humongous parking structure. If they did that they could have some levels just for CMs.

Lots of possibilities.

 

[DLR92]

Disney should prioritize to give cast members a parking garage too.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

1- Buy Garden Walk and turn it into something great. 2- Expand DCA, and 3- Build theme park number 3.

 

[SuddenStorm]

Disney should prioritize to give cast members a parking garage too.

CM's get to use a level of Mickey and Friends for parking. There is also a parking garage behind Toontown for TDA employees.

 

[Consumer]

I love infrastructure. I'm an infrastructure nerd. Feed that infrastructure right into my bloodstream. Roads, bridges, transportations hubs. It's like fentanyl to me. I can't get enough of it. I love Resort plans.

 

[TP2000]

The Disneyland Resort is definitely in need of its own water park.

Under a giant dome, sure.

Out in the open? No way. It would only be open five months out of the year. Right now at Disneyland on May 9th an hour before sundown it is 62 degrees. Granted, this entire winter has been MUCH colder than normal for the entire Western US and Spring just can't get itself started yet, but still...

To waste land on a water park in Anaheim you'd need a dome. Or, you could just go down Harbor Blvd. a few blocks to Great Wolf Lodge.

 

[SuddenStorm]

The Disneyland Resort is definitely in need of its own water park.

Why?

 

[DLR92]

Disneyland Resort would be just be a two park complex with more hotel/retail developments on the way. I can’t see a third park (although be nice).