Businesses drum up support for Disney s resort exp

As the environmental review process nears for the proposed Disneyland Resort expansion, Orange County businesses are rallying around the Magic Kingdom and preaching its economic blessings to those outside Anaheim s neighborhoods. Disneyland 2000 has 85 members that include some of the wealthiest corporations in the Southland and is hoping to influence local homeowners, City Council m embers and state lawmakers. We re a group of movers and shakers, said Heidi Miller, founder of Heidi s Frogen Yozurt and Disneyland 2000 spokeswoman. Rockwell International, the Anaheim Hilton and Towers Hotel, Anaheim 's Marriott Hotel and Yellow Cab of Orange County are a few of the local heavy hitters listed among the group s elite. The business boosters are scheduled to tout the regional benefits of the $3 billion resort at South Coast Plaza on the weekend of Aug. 29 and 30. A lot of people I ve talked to don t really know or understand what this means people better understand the resort s economic benefits, sportscaster Ed Arnold has taken the lead roll as cochairman of the group along with lobbyist Reed Royalty, president of T.C.S. Government Consulting. Until now, the most vocal group has been Anaheim H.O.M.E. with its outspoken disdain for a 15,000- space parking structure that has been slated for construction between West and Walnut streets near Ball Road but Richard Anthony J r., HOME board member, said the structure is still unacceptable to nearby resid