Disneyland has unveiled plans for a theme park expansion, as well as new retail, hotel, and parking projects.

I added a link for the full article here: https://wdwnt.com/2021/03/breaking-disneyland-resort-announces-plans-for-third-theme-park-and-more/

I mist say it is a little supprising fo see Disneyland attempt to begin a major expansion in the midst of ongoing uncertainty caused by the pandemic. Especially after in late 2018 Disneyland cancelled their previously announced expansion plans to turn a portion of Downtown Disneyland into a new luxury hotel.

not quite expansions (yet)

They are changing the approvals so they might be able to expand. currently the approvals are for retail OR hotel OR attractions, what they want it the area to approved/zoned for development of any of those options, so if they want to add a hotel, they can. or if they want to add in a retail area and new attractions, similar to Disney Quest, or a park expansion (which they hint at)

They probably will expand at some point, but not necessarily soon

https://disneylandforward.com/faq

Looks like a great expansion and could be ready when travel and things start getting back to normal (fingers crossed). 

This goes way back to to 90s, and as Troll said above, it's all about zoning. Some expansion concepts are in current car parks, some into hotel precincts. 

Mouse Planet article.

Disney are pretty shrewd in doing this now, as the city of Anaheim's coffers have taken a bit hit with the loss of tourism dollars over the last year. 

I wonder what Disney's plan to link Downtown / Park gates to the development where Toy Story parking is.
If Grand Californian moves to this precinct, that land (and the CA area from Pixar Pier to Zephyr) could add a sizeable new area to CA. 

There's a lot you can fit in that space, including an additional gate or two. That's without considering the multitude of ways you could integrate a premium hotel into a space like they did with the Miracosta at DisneySea. Seems crazy to me that the Disneyland Hotel is still standing and something like this hasn't been developed already.

On 27/03/2021 at 2:08 PM, ThemeParks4Life said:

Looks like a great expansion and could be ready when travel and things start getting back to normal (fingers crossed). 

Just remember - the first announcement of WestCOT was in 1991, stalled in 95 where they changed track to DCA, a further 3 years of design, and then another 3 years of construction before they opened California Adventure - and that was still botched so hard they had to close it 6 years later for a complete overhaul.

...I mean, unless you're saying we're living in a Covid world for another 15 years or so?