Sunday, December 23, 2012

A New Dodger Stadium Downtown

Where can you build a new stadium without any environmental studies, adjacent to region-wide transportation, continue downtown LA's revitalization at its north end with a major sports facility, and right some of the wrongs of the past? 
Welcome to the Alameda District Plan, a specific plan calling for a sports arena next to Union Station. Adopted in 1996 it is still valid but largely ignored. The sports arena is numbered "11" on the map but it can be located anywhere in this area.

The new owners of the Dodgers can use Chavez Ravine to return some of the parkland that was swallowed up for the stadium, provide affordable housing to make up for people that were evicted, and make a lot of money building market rate housing in an in-fill site located in a trendy community and surrounded by a park.



On the above photo of the plan area place the baseball diamond on the area where Dodger Stadium could relocate to.

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