Campanula Properties

Orange Tree Mobile Home Park lost a bid Friday to prevent Anaheim from signing any contracts related to the proposed $95-million indoor arena, which is planned on a neighboring site. In ruling against Orange Tree, Superior Court Judge Eileen C. Moore refused to expand an order issued Wednesday that forbids any grading, demolition or construction on the site of the proposed 20,000-seat arena on Douglass Road north of Katella Avenue.

Orange Tree Mobile Home Park lost a bid Friday to prevent Anaheim from signing any contracts related to the proposed $95-million indoor arena, which is planned on a neighboring site. In ruling against Orange Tree, Superior Court Judge Eileen C. Moore refused to expand an order issued Wednesday that forbids any grading, demolition or construction on the site of the proposed 20,000-seat arena on Douglass Road north of Katella Avenue.

The City Council today will review a plan calling for the owner of a 23-acre mobile home park to pay for relocating tenants and will consider strengthening a recent campaign-reform ordinance. Campanula Properties Inc., owners of the Orange Tree Mobile Home Park next to The Pond of Anaheim, wants to close the 236-space park and possibly replace it with a parking lot.

The city of Anaheim agreed Wednesday to extend a moratorium on construction of its proposed $95-million indoor sports arena, bowing to pressure from the Los Angeles Rams and a development company. The agreements signed by Anaheim, the Rams and Anaheim Stadium Associates forbid the city from grading or building on the site of the 20,000-seat arena pending a court hearing on the sufficiency of the city's environmental impact report.

A proposed $75-million indoor sports arena moved a step closer to reality Monday when the city's Planning Commission endorsed an environmental impact report for the 20,000-seat facility. Despite a few complaints from neighboring property owners and businesses about potential noise and traffic, the commission recommended that the City Council approve the environmental report at its Feb. 20 meeting.

Angry residents of the Orange Tree mobile home park this week asked the City Council to impose a rent freeze until an agreement can be worked out with the park's owner. "We'd like to see a freeze until we can get this guy under control," said Mike Johnson, president of the Orange Tree Homeowners Assn., about landlord Jack Stanaland. "He has the right to his property, but he's being totally unreasonable."

The City Council on Tuesday settled three lawsuits that have blocked construction of a proposed indoor sports arena, putting the project back on a "fast track" in its race with a nearly identical facility proposed in Santa Ana. The settlements clear the way for construction of the Anaheim Arena to begin as early as September, with a completion date in time for the fall 1992 basketball season.

An opponent of the city's proposed $85-million indoor sports arena said Tuesday that he will try to halt the project by circulating a petition to force the issue onto the ballot. However, Mayor Fred Hunter, a chief proponent of the 20,000-seat facility, said he is unconcerned with the threatened referendum, which comes on the heels of the City Council's rezoning of property last week for the arena northeast of Anaheim Stadium.

Echoing concerns of nearby mobile home park residents, the California Angels say the city did not consider all the problems posed by traffic from the proposed $85-million indoor sports arena to be built near Anaheim Stadium. Angels Executive Vice President Michael Schreter said Thursday the environmental report prepared by the city does not adequately consider the increased traffic on Katella Avenue that will occur when events are held simultaneously at the stadium and at the arena.

A handful of neighbors in the area of the proposed Santa Ana indoor sports arena said Monday that the 20,000-seat facility will cause traffic, crime and other nuisances. "Santa Ana needs an arena like it needs a hole in the head," said Shirley Gates, who owns property in the area. Gates was one of four people who spoke against the proposed arena at a public hearing Monday night before the Santa Ana Planning Commission.