Looming Legal Battle Between Disney & FL (DeSantis)
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A meeting Wednesday morning, March 29, 2023, of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board — held to determine how best to move forward from the board’s past life overseeing the former Reedy Creek Improvement District — opened with members’ statements that there’s not much they’re actually allowed to do, in the video published on Marh 29, 2023, by WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando, as “Reedy Creek board made agreement weeks before DeSantis’ dissolution to keep Disney in control,…“, below:
The next board meeting will take place on April 8, 2023.
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board, which replaced the former Reedy Creek Improvement District, announced that a special council had discovered agreements made in February between Disney and Reedy Creek that gave direct control of the district’s developmental rights to the company, in the video published on March 29, 2023, by WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando, as “New board of former Reedy Creek district discusses deal made with Disney prior to takeover“, below:
Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney said on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, that their Disney-controlled predecessors passed restrictive covenants that stripped the new board of many of its powers until 2053. The current supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said at the meeting that their predecessors last month signed a development agreement with the company that gave Disney maximum developmental power over the theme park resort’s 27,000 acres in central Florida.
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Pertinent to the topic, for Florida CS/HB 9-B: Reedy Creek Improvement District, Orange and Osceola Counties, please click HERE.
For more details about Reedy Creek Improvement Act, please click HERE or refer to excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
The Reedy Creek Improvement Act, otherwise known as House Bill No. 486,[1] was a law introduced and passed in the U.S. state of Florida in 1967 which established the area surrounding the Walt Disney World Resort (the Reedy Creek Improvement District) as its own governmental authority, granting it the same authority and responsibilities as a county government.[2][3][4]
The bill, which was sought by and pushed for by Disney,[5] was signed into law by Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. on May 12, 1967, allowing Disney to build the infrastructure for the second park.[6] Ground breaking followed on May 30.[7] In Roy O. Disney‘s last act as the company’s CEO in 1968, he officially named the second park Walt Disney World.[8]
The status of the law has been challenged since its passage. The Supreme Court of Florida ruled in 1968 that the law did not violate any provision of the Constitution of Florida.[9] Among the proposals that Disney lobbied to get the law passed was Walt Disney‘s vision of a real planned city within the property called the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow” (EPCOT), which was intended to serve as a test bed for new city-living innovations. The company however eventually decided to abandon Walt’s concepts for the experimental city after his death, primarily only using the district for its own commercial interests.[10]
In April 2022, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that would repeal the Act and abolish the Reedy Creek Improvement District. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill repealing the Reedy Creek Improvement Act into law. This will take effect in June 2023, when the Reedy Creek Improvement District will be dissolved.[11]
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In this Breaking Disney News update, Brayden covers the news of Disney’s governing district, the Reedy Creek Improvement District now dubbed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District potentially engaging in a legal battles against The Walt Disney Company over past agreements. This is Mickey Views News, your source for Disney news! In the video published on March 29, 2023, by Mickey Views, as “New Reedy Creek Plans LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST DISNEY“, below:
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