SCH Number 2021100402

Project Info

Title

DisneylandForward Draft Subsequent Environmental Impact Report No. 352

Description

As detailed in the attached NOA. To allow continued, long-term growth of The Disneyland® Resort, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, U.S., Inc. (Disney), proposes DisneylandForward (Project), which would allow the transfer of uses permitted under The Disneyland Resort Project to other areas of the DRSP and the Disney ARSP Properties (collectively with Disney’s properties in the DRSP, Disney Property or Disney Properties). The areas are or will be considered to be part of The Disneyland Resort Project as modified by the DisneylandForward Project. The Project would not increase the amount of development square footage or hotel rooms currently allowed in the DRSP and analyzed in Environmental Impact Report (EIR) No. 311, which the City of Anaheim (City) certified in 1993, or the number of hotel rooms currently allowed in the ARSP and analyzed in Supplemental Environmental Impact Report No. 340, which the City certified in 2012. However, the Project would permit an increase of 4,376 theme park-related parking spaces in the ARSP. The Project also would provide for future administrative review by the City of Disney’s development projects on Disney Properties, which would rely on this Subsequent Environmental Impact Report in accordance with CEQA standards. The Project proposes to modify the limits of the existing Theme Park and Hotel District boundaries within the existing DRSP perimeter, rename Districts within the DRSP, and establish Overlays for Disney’s ARSP Properties. Within The Disneyland Resort, the Project proposes to reallocate allowable land uses within the Theme Park District (389 acres), the Parking District (57.1 acres), and the Southeast District (24.7 acres). The former Hotel District would become part of the Theme Park District and the Future Expansion District would become the Southeast District. The Project would allow Disney to move a portion of the unused approved theme park square footage to the existing Hotel District, which would become part of the new expanded Theme Park District of the DRSP. The Project also would allow Disney to move a portion of the unused approved theme park square footage to the existing Future Expansion District, which would become the Southeast District of the DRSP, and to the proposed Theme Park East and West Overlays of the ARSP. Under the Project, Disney could develop cumulatively up to 6,850,000 previously approved square feet of theme park uses in the DRSP, including up to 6,850,000 previously approved square feet in the expanded Theme Park District if all theme park square footage were developed in the expanded Theme Park District. Disney could also develop a portion of this previously approved theme park square footage in the newly renamed Southeast District (up to 390,000 square feet), in the proposed Theme Park East Overlay (up to 840,000 square feet), and in the proposed Theme Park West Overlay (up to 80,000 square feet). If theme park square footage is developed in the Southeast District and Theme Park East and West Overlays, an equivalent amount of theme park square footage would be removed from the allotment for the Theme Park District, such that the maximum theme park square footage would not exceed 6,850,000 square feet. Similarly, the Project would allow Disney to move the unused portion of the hotel room approvals from the existing Hotel District to the existing Theme Park District or the existing Future Expansion District, the newly renamed Southeast District. Under the Project, Disney could develop cumulatively up to 5,600 previously approved hotel rooms in the DRSP, including a combination of up to 5,600 previously approved hotel rooms in the expanded Theme Park District if all hotel rooms were developed in the expanded Theme Park District and up to 1,852 previously approved hotel rooms in the newly renamed Southeast District. Disney is not seeking additional square footage for theme park uses or retail entertainment uses or additional hotel rooms within The Disneyland Resort as part of this Project. Instead, the Project would allow Disney to move the existing approvals to other areas governed by the DRSP and ARSP. Within the ARSP, the Project would create a Theme Park East Overlay within the ARSP for the existing Toy Story Parking Lot and a Theme Park West Overlay within the ARSP for the existing Paradise Pier Hotel. The Theme Park Overlay would allow Disney to develop theme park uses on these properties concurrently with the development of theme park uses on the expanded Theme Park District or the Southeast District of the DRSP. With the Project, Disney could develop up to 840,000 square feet of previously approved theme park uses within the Theme Park East Overlay and up to 80,000 square feet of previously approved theme park uses within the Theme Park West Overlay for a cumulative total of up to 920,000 square feet of previously approved theme park uses in these Overlays. The Anaheim Municipal Code currently allows theme park uses in these Overlay areas with approval of a conditional use permit. The Project would create a Parking Overlay within the ARSP for the Disney ARSP Properties located at 1515 S. Manchester Avenue, 1585 S. Manchester Avenue, 1530 S. Harbor Boulevard, and 333 W. Ball Road. The Project would increase the number of permitted theme park parking spaces in the Parking Overlay at 333 W. Ball Road, permitting up to 5,700 parking spaces (this includes 1,324 existing spaces plus 4,376 additional spaces). The Parking Overlay would permit development of the same type of parking and transportation facilities allowed under Anaheim Municipal Code Section 18.114.080 for the East Parking Area of the DRSP Parking District, and the same type of back-of-house uses, limited retail, and dining and entertainment uses allowed under Anaheim Municipal Code Section 18.114.060 for the Theme Park District of the DRSP. Parking facilities in the Parking Overlay would be architecturally treated through use of terraced structures; landscaped buffers and berms; noise attenuation louvers along the openings on the lower levels and solid walls with landscaped planters on the upper levels; and additional landscaping in the setbacks. Disney could also develop hotel rooms in these Overlays as permitted by the existing ARSP. Approval of the proposed project would include amendments to the City of Anaheim General Plan, Bicycle Master Plan, DRSP, ARSP, Anaheim Resort Public Realm Landscape Program, Anaheim Resort Identity Program and Anaheim Commercial Recreation Area Maximum Permitted Structural Height Map. No changes are proposed to District A, or the Anaheim GardenWalk, or C-R Overlays, of the DRSP or HCSP.

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