{"id":153657,"date":"2026-01-28T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153657\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:54:06","slug":"whats-next-for-angel-stadium-anaheim-city-staffers-asked-to-find-out-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153657\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for Angel Stadium? Anaheim city staffers asked to find out \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anaheim city staffers were asked at Tuesday\u2019s Jan. 27 council meeting to get back to city leaders with a \u201cframework\u201d to flesh out the future of the Angel Stadium property.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we want open space? Do we want a one-time influx of cash by selling? Or do we want to develop something that has an ongoing revenue source,\u201d asked Councilmember Natalie Meeks, who made the request for the future meeting discussion.<\/p>\n

She added that there should be opportunities for public comment to evaluate those options.<\/p>\n

In an open letter to the Angels owner Arte Moreno ahead of last year\u2019s season home opener, Mayor Ashleigh Aitken outlined her starting points<\/a> for a future stadium deal, including the need to navigate state laws for selling surplus land, committing to having a community workforce agreement, full access to the stadium for inspections and acknowledging Anaheim as the team\u2019s location and partner.<\/p>\n

But city officials have said there have been no discussions with the team.<\/p>\n

At a December public strategic planning session, <\/a>city staff asked councilmembers for the green light to potentially begin speaking to state officials about navigating the Surplus Land Act process if the council decides to again pursue the sale of the 150-acre, city-owned stadium.<\/p>\n

The state law requires local governments selling excess property to prioritize affordable housing; as part of that process, affordable developers should be given first crack at negotiating for the land.<\/p>\n

The final details of the now defunct $320 million stadium property deal approved by the Anaheim City Council in 2020 included plans for 466 apartments for lower-income families, a flagship 7-acre community park, hotels, shops and restaurants, offices and housing. Whether the stadium would be renovated or a new one built was not decided.<\/p>\n

But the state notified Anaheim officials in 2021 that the planned sale was in violation of the Surplus Land Act. City officials argued the stadium property was exempt from that affordable housing law.<\/p>\n

Anaheim later settled that dispute by agreeing to pay $96 million<\/a> from the sale\u2019s proceeds to build up to 1,000 units of affordable housing across the city.<\/p>\n

Before the Angel Stadium site could again be put up for sale, the city would have to go through that state process. And the Angels\u2019 lease to play in the stadium, which could run until 2038, could complicate that state process, city officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like staff to bring back a framework of how that process could move forward,\u201d Meeks said. \u201cWhat\u2019s the process going to be?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim city staffers were asked at Tuesday\u2019s Jan. 27 council meeting to get back to city leaders with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,15261,165,164,19753,7,1011,1071,23,611,136],"class_list":["post-153657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-city-hall","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angel-stadium","tag-california","tag-housing","tag-local-government","tag-local-news","tag-orange-county","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}