[The Epoch Times, March 29, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Wen Hui) A bill introduced last week would seek compensation for families who were displaced when land was used to build Dodger Stadium.
Opened in 1962 in Chavez Canyon, Dodger Stadium is the third-oldest stadium in Major League Baseball (MLB), behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.
But when it first opened, about 1,800 families in the area, mostly Mexican-American, were forced to relocate.
AB 1950 says the residents were told the site would become a new affordable housing complex, but that never happened.
“With this legislation, we are addressing the past, giving a voice to this injustice, acknowledging the pain of those who have been displaced and Provide compensation measures. Ensure we respect the legacy of the families and communities of Palo Alto, La Loma, and Bishop. We provide various forms of compensation, including providing free urban rights equal to the original landowners in Chavez Canyon. There is real estate compensation, as well as providing fair market value compensation adjusted for inflation.”
AB 1950 provides that whenever a public building project will result in the displacement of a person, the displaced person is entitled to actual relocation and related expenses deemed reasonable and necessary by the public building project.
The Dodgers played in Brooklyn, New York, from 1913 to 1957, before moving because the famous urban designer Robert Moses did not want to build a domed stadium at the current site of New York’s Barclays Center. to Los Angeles.
Then-Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley didn’t want to follow Moses’ idea of building a stadium on the current site of Citi Field in Queens, New York, resulting in both the Dodgers and Giants Migrate westward. ◇
Editor in charge: Fang Ping
2024-03-29 00:29:44
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