New Disneyland Parking Garage and Transportation Hub

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
But for just $600/night, you can stay in Disney's 3 star hotel that's built into DCA's butt! Doesn't that sound better??
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Actually it does to me. TGC is overpriced, but the amenities are incomparable to any other hotel property in Anaheim. PP Hotel is far and away the biggest ripoff.
 
SMLR

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Wait — how will the bridge work? Will it have an elevation change and slope up and over Harbor Blvd? Or will the road go below and slope under the bridge?
 
Darkbeer1

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SMLR said:
Wait — how will the bridge work? Will it have an elevation change and slope up and over Harbor Blvd? Or will the road go below and slope under the bridge?
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The road will remain at the same grade. The bridge will have long ramps (ADA approved grade) and will be over 15 feet tall at the bottom (truck clearance) and with fencing, over 25 feet overall. so the walkway is about 18 feet higher than the road on the bridge.
 
truecoat

truecoat

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Darkbeer1 said:
The road will remain at the same grade. The bridge will have long ramps (ADA approved grade) and will be over 15 feet tall at the bottom (truck clearance) and with fencing, over 25 feet overall. so the walkway is about 18 feet higher than the road on the bridge.
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Usually 1 foot of ramp for every inch of elevation.
 
flynnibus

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truecoat said:
Usually 1 foot of ramp for every inch of elevation.
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And breaks every 30 ft :)

I really need to look at the plans to see how they are handling the west side... the eastern approach they have plenty of space to work with. I haven't had the time to digest the videos darkbeer posted
 
Darkbeer1

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There is nothing about the West Side, which is treated differently, due to the fact the area is currently zoned for Disney as landowners, and the Disneyland Resort Specific Plan,which was original agreed to in 1993.

http://www.anaheim.net/1017/Disneyland-Resort

Basically they can do what they want,so long as it meets current regulations, so until they file a Building Permit, we will not get any official word. It is also frustrating the current Zoning Commission and the non-Disney Businesses, as Disney, in its normal ways, refuses to admit to what they plan to do with the current Transportation Hub area, and what is going on west of Harbor Blvd. in General.
 
Darkbeer1

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One interesting thing, the Park Vue Inn can't remodel their property due to a problem with getting financing that was brought up at Tuesday's City Council Meeting. Since their was a transit study for a Trolley/light rail system that wanted to use their property to use as a station, they can't get financing since the land is marked for possible government eminent domain. So until the plan is killed, they are in limbo. And of course, the council tabled the measure, sending it back for re-wording.....

But now is the time to do it, let them work at the same time as the Disneyland Eastern Gateway is being built, and reopen with a new design and access to the new pedestrian entrance on the east side of their property.....
 
GiveMeTheMusic

GiveMeTheMusic

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Darkbeer1 said:
One interesting thing, the Park Vue Inn can't remodel their property due to a problem with getting financing that was brought up at Tuesday's City Council Meeting. Since their was a transit study for a Trolley/light rail system that wanted to use their property to use as a station, they can't get financing since the land is marked for possible government eminent domain. So until the plan is killed, they are in limbo. And of course, the council tabled the measure, sending it back for re-wording.....

But now is the time to do it, let them work at the same time as the Disneyland Eastern Gateway is being built, and reopen with a new design and access to the new pedestrian entrance on the east side of their property.....
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Wow, that is garbage. Hope they're able to get that cleared up.
 
TP2000

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Darkbeer1 said:
One interesting thing, the Park Vue Inn can't remodel their property due to a problem with getting financing that was brought up at Tuesday's City Council Meeting. Since their was a transit study for a Trolley/light rail system that wanted to use their property to use as a station, they can't get financing since the land is marked for possible government eminent domain. So until the plan is killed, they are in limbo. And of course, the council tabled the measure, sending it back for re-wording.....

But now is the time to do it, let them work at the same time as the Disneyland Eastern Gateway is being built, and reopen with a new design and access to the new pedestrian entrance on the east side of their property.....
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Ah, yes, the power of government (no matter how big or how small) to get in the way of private citizens exercising their right to use their own property. Stay classy Anaheim. :rolleyes:
 
TP2000

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Curious Constance said:
I'd wondered what happened to that project.
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For those wondering what we're talking about regarding the Park Vue Inn project...

The Park Vue Inn and its IHOP and Cold Stone Creamery, directly across the crosswalk from Disneyland, have been owned by the same family since 1965. As business at Disneyland boomed in the last few years, the family wanted to rebuild the motel and two restaurants in an entirely new mid-rise complex ready for another 50 years of business.
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But Anaheim was trying to get federal money to build a streetcar from the ARTIC train station to the Resort District, and Anaheim let slip in a planning map that the Park Vue Inn property was slated to be confiscated from the family under California's infamous eminent domain laws so that it could be turned into a streetcar maintenance barn and spur line. The Anaheim streetcar project was so dubious that not even Washington DC wanted to give it money, so it finally died a long overdue death this year.

And the family that has owned that property and its small businesses for 50 years has been left twisting in the wind the past few years.
 
TP2000

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phruby said:
new video about security and parking

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I think we posted that one earlier, but as I was watching it again a hilarious comment happens at about the beginning of the video presentation.

Turn up your sound and listen to what that lady in the audience whispers to her friend between the 11 and 13 second mark. Hysterical! And she's right.

Also, if you freeze the video at 5:10 you can clearly see the rerouted Disneyland Monorail beamway. The new beamway deviates from its original 1961 alignment along Harbor Blvd. and hugs the inbound beam on the far north of the Esplanade, before it dives south into an S-curve that enters DCA near Buena Vista Street to join up with the existing beam through DCA westward.

So obviously the Miceage reports and online rumors are right, and there are big plans for the existing East Esplanade shuttle and bus loading zones. About 7 to 10 acres of land for DCA expansion by my guess. @Darkbeer1 knew what he was zooming in on there, obviously.
 
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