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The Story of the Reedy Creek Improvement District
Mouse Planet ^ | 4/22/22 | Jim Korkis

Posted on 04/30/2023 2:24:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Last week, the state of Florida legislature voted to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, but the specifics of how that will happen by June 2023 are still unclear as well as the ramifications on the counties of Orange and Osceola.

What IS the Reedy Creek Improvement District? Many Disney fans have a vague idea about what it is and what it does but there seems to be some confusion about it and why dissolving it might cause chaos.

Basically, the creation of RCID allowed the Walt Disney Company to utilize some innovative techniques in building and to exceed the safety standards of both Orange and Osceola counties. All of this was able to be accomplished without taking any money from the taxpayers in those two counties.

Some have argued over the years that when the Walt Disney Company abandoned the idea of building Walt Disney's experimental city that the original reason for allowing the company such vast governing power through an improvement district was no longer necessary.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis added the discussion and vote on dissolving the Reedy Creek Improvement District to the special legislative session less than an hour before it began. He also added an item to the agenda to eliminate special protections that Disney gets from the Big Tech law from 2021

(Excerpt) Read more at mouseplanet.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antiwoke; desantis; disney; fl; florida; nogroomers; nopedos; reedycreek; woke
Back in the day radical democrats were screaming about Reedy Creek being an evil corporate Republican Disney deal, now that the woke democrats have control of Disney, they are screaming about those mean Republicans.
1 posted on 04/30/2023 2:24:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

There’s no such thing as a logically consistent, honest politician.

Manipulative, greedy, opportunistic, hypocritical politicians are the norm.


2 posted on 04/30/2023 2:43:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: DallasBiff

All Disney had to do was stay out of discussion of keeping porn out of 3rd grade and younger classrooms and none of this would be happening

Hard for me to believe that would ever be an issue


3 posted on 04/30/2023 2:43:55 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“There’s no such thing as a logically consistent, honest politician.”

DeSantis!


4 posted on 04/30/2023 2:51:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DallasBiff
This long piece about Reedy Creek left out one important detail: in the 1960s the all-white Florida legislature gave Reedy Creek - code words for Walt Disney - authority to build a nuclear plant without state oversight.

That might have been a safe bet 60 years ago but today placing fissionable material in the hands of a corporation known to have unhinged, radical, and perverted hires throughout the ranks is beyond dangerous.

Think Red Flags. Think dirty bombs.

The Florida legislature needs to put public safety first.

5 posted on 04/30/2023 2:52:24 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: digger48
All Disney had to do was stay out of discussion of keeping porn out of 3rd grade and younger classrooms and none of this would be happening

Well they didn't, the "woke" took over the company.

My saying if I was a CEO, is do not get into radical left woke politics.

6 posted on 04/30/2023 2:55:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

They were supposed to build a city but backed out? Then the agreement should’ve ended whenever that didn’t happen.


7 posted on 04/30/2023 3:27:42 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: DallasBiff

Yes. The hated it.

And Disney in general.


8 posted on 04/30/2023 3:44:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: skr

“ They were supposed to build a city but backed out? Then the agreement should’ve ended whenever that didn’t happen.”

Walt Disney died at the end of 1966 and his plans for the city and business park were never seen through.

No one else could do it or would do it.


9 posted on 04/30/2023 3:47:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: ifinnegan

One can only imagine trying to get something on that scale done without the driving force there to push forward.


10 posted on 04/30/2023 6:35:06 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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