Rams owner Stan Kroenke and 29 NFL owners got what they wanted on Tuesday: Official approval for the Rams to move from St. Louis back to Los Angeles beginning in the 2016 NFL season, bringing the NFL back into the country’s No. 2 media market for the first time since 1995.

“This is a great solution,’’ Patriots owner Robert Kraft told reporters as he exited the Westin in Houston, site of the NFL owners meetings.

But it wasn’t a great solution for Chargers owner Dean Spanos, Raiders owner Mark Davis, and millions of fans of each team, who are still left in limbo following Tuesday’s developments.

NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve the return of the Rams to Los Angeles, 21 years after they left Southern California for St. Louis. The Rams will play in a temporary home over the next three seasons — the Los Angeles Coliseum, formerly the home of the LA Raiders, is the likely venue — before opening a privately-funded stadium in Ingle­wood in 2019 that is projected to cost at least $1.7 billion.

But while the plan approved on Tuesday sealed the Rams’ fate, it left the door open for the Chargers and Raiders to either stay in their current markets or join the Rams in their Inglewood project. The Chargers have the first option to join the Rams as partners or tenants in Inglewood, but if they choose within the next year to stay in San Diego, the Raiders would then have the option to join the Rams.

“We’ll see where the Raider Nation ends up here,’’ Davis said. “Don’t feel bad. We’ll get it right.’’

The NFL is expected to fetch a $550 million relocation fee from the Rams and any other team that moves to Los Angeles. The approved plan also would provide $100 million in funding each to the Chargers and Raiders if they choose to build a new stadium in their current markets. The Raiders also left Southern California for Oakland in 1995, and the Chargers have been in San Diego since 1961, and neither team has had any success in obtaining the necessary public funds to build a stadium.

Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated on Tuesday the NFL has always preferred that teams stay and get new stadiums in their home markets.

“I will be working over the next several weeks to explore the options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers,’’ Spanos said in a statement.

Kroenke has been eyeing a return to Los Angeles since buying majority control of the Rams in 2010, buying 60 acres of land on the site of the former Hollywood Park in Inglewood and designing grandiose plans for a football complex.

In addition to a state-of-the-art football facility with a glass roof, Kroenke’s $1.7 billion project also includes space for retail development and an “NFL West’’ — new headquarters for the NFL Network, a West Coast extension to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a dazzling new site for Super Bowls and Pro Bowls, and perhaps a permanent site for the NFL Draft and NFL Combine.

Houston Texans owner Bob McNair called the plans “a real NFL campus.’’ Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told reporters it’s “absolutely the greatest plan that’s ever been conceived in sports.’’

The Chargers had hoped to build their own facility with the Raiders in Carson, Calif., with close proximity to several freeways. But neither Spanos nor Davis have the deep pockets or commercial development expertise as does Kroenke, a multi-billionaire and member of the Walton (Wal-Mart) family who has been the most passionate about bringing his team to Los Angeles.

“The project at Hollywood Park was the kind of signature project that’s going to help make us successful in Los Angeles for the long term,’’ Goodell said. “A project that we think is going to change, frankly, not just NFL stadiums and NFL complexes, but I think sports complexes around the world. I think this is going to be one of the greatest sports complexes in the world.’’

However, Los Angeles’s gain was St. Louis’s loss. This marks the second time St. Louis has lost its NFL team — the Cardinals left for Phoenix in 1988 after 28 years, and now the Rams are headed back to Los Angeles after 21 years and one Super Bowl title in Missouri.

But the Edward Jones Dome, which opened when the Rams arrived in 1995, quickly grew outdated by NFL standards. The city of St. Louis was much closer than San Diego and Oakland to coming up with a viable public-private stadium project to keep the Rams in town, but Kroenke was determined to build his signature stadium project in Los Angles.

“This process has gone on since 2002,’’ Kroenke said of stadium negotiations with St. Louis. “I understand the emotional argument, but it’s not something that you want to do. I have a responsibility also to take care of the organization and a responsibility to my other 31 partners to have a first-class facility.’’