ANAHEIM – The Anaheim Planning Commission approved plans Monday to allow a developer to build a $450 million mixed-use project, despite opposition from Angels officials.

The commission voted 4-0 for the development billed as the LT Platinum Center, a massive project on 15 acres with plans for condos, apartments, hotels, retail and office space, that sits on the corner of Orangewood Avenue and State College Boulevard on the same area as Angel Stadium.

“We’ve been waiting for a long time to formally get city approval and can start talking to tenants,” said Randy Jefferson, an executive director with LT Global. “It’s quite an incredible opportunity for us and the city.”

The City Council gets the final say in October.

Several Angels officials, including team chairman Dennis Kuhl and senior Vice President Molly Jolly, spoke against the project. The Angels’ attorney Friday sent a letter to the city, saying the project is “ill advised” and would “cannibalize a longtime Anaheim business by making major changes to the Platinum Triangle.”

“From the beginning, we have been very transparent with the city regarding our concerns about” the proposal, Angels President John Carpino said in a statement after the meeting. “The land is zoned residential, and LT purchased it with this zoning entitlement in 2014, any significant change to commercial zoning will irreparably harm the city-owned stadium.”

The Angels and LT Global have had an acrimonious relationship since the developer asked them last year if the team would share some of their parking lot. LT Global had planned to create a walkway linking the properties.

The Angels rebuffed the idea, prompting LT Global to scale down its plans.

Jefferson was not surprised by the Angels’ move.

“We’re in the same place we were in before,” Jefferson said of negotiations. “The Angels are our neighbors. We offered to sit down and talk with them and we continue to want to do that. Angels baseball is about Anaheim. We should all be together on the same team from that point of view.”

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