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Over the last however many years, hasn't there been changes to the highways and county roads surrounding WDW? Things clearly outside of the district and done by groups outside the district. Then, leading into road changes done by the district. Do we think those different entities didn't talk...

I mean you did say "they could collaborate on a longterm development plan for Walt Disney World." along with "They might also want to express their gratitude for Florida and Floridians publicly for having been generous over nearly 60 years in allowing them to operate in their home state with...

I'm not a lawyer, but I've seen one on TV. Doesn't the appeals court just need to determine that one of the conditions the judge used to restrict the case was incorrect and then kick it back down to re-evaluate without that condition. For instance, the appeals court could determine that Disney...

This sounds like requesting that the state of FL take over running Walt Disney World. That's an interesting take, to say.

The dismissal says Disney was harmed. It specifically says that loss of representation on the board is an a injury to Disney. It dismissed despite the harm, not because there wasn't any harm.

This one feels particularly questionable. Like, if the lawsuit had been filed in the time after the law passed and before the board was appointed, then the appointment would have been a possible imminent harm. But, somehow since it already happened it's not something that can be fixed. The...

It's a classic sunk cost and future risk question. Clearly, Disney has a huge sunk cost in WDW. That cost is gone, nothing they can do about it anymore. Its money already spent. Going forward, Disney can invest more in WDW or not, to keep it competitive with Universal along with just...

The current board is not the initial board of the district. The CFTOD is not a new district. It's the same district formerly called RCID. Only the name changed. The former board elected by the constituents of the district was replaced by a governor appointed board with no accountability to...

Does the charter include a way for those within the district to dissolve it voluntarily? That would be quite a drastic step. But, it might be necessary at some point.

One wrong move or statement, and they could be in the same position.

Some excerpts: Looks like it says they suffered a constitutional injury. But, not a more specific harm traced directly from the Governor. Seems to read that lacking evidence of a direct request from the Governor to the board, not just some implied thing, where that action causes harm, the...

That would be subject to the same oversight. Oversight being abused to create leverage on Disney as the premise for this change. My guess is they would rearrange the fencing around the stations and ticket validation. Move the entire monorail inside the park boundary and then claim it's an...

Since the District is formed, funded, and based on land ownership, one would hope the land owners get a vote in the leadership of the District. That's kind of how representative government is supposed to work. If it was formed based on something else, then that something else. Say, how the...

I'm not sure that would do it. Just requiring tickets would clearly not be enough. Lots of systems that fall in the definition charge to ride. Maybe some nuance that it's tied to already have a park ticket too, maybe. Just charging to ride clearly wouldn't be enough.

That's a good example. Should the same oversight be applied to the railroad too? If not, what makes it different? It's related though. The logical route here is that the new oversight legislation was done to create leverage over Disney, not for actual safety reasons. With that logic, the...

It's a property tax, the payer details have been posted in the thread before. The vast majority of the taxes are paid by Disney, since they own the vast majority of land subject to the tax. Which makes your argument "the only people affected are Disney, but people visiting the park don't...

A better question might be, if the new regulation becomes a problem and is used in a bad faith way, what would it take to change the Disney Monorail from a 'fixed guideway transportation system' into an amusement park ride? Meaning, what could be done to the Disney Monorail to make it more like...

I didn't say it was my tax dollars. Much like it doesn't impact me either way, I didn't have RCID representation before either. You asked if there was an impact. Those people that pay taxes to the district were most certainly impacted by the change in spending by the district with no...

Any idea what the rebrand costs? Chances that it came out of the Firefighter budget or some other district budget? If paid from the Firefighter budget, how does the cost compare to hours of staff pay? Any value guesses on the rebrand vs using that money for staff hours?

Didn't CFTOD change the tax rate? I seem to remember that, but maybe they just proposed a change. Even if they didn't. CFTOD certainly changed priorities on what to spend money on and is clearly spending large quantities of money on things those governed by CFTOD would rather not spend money...