LittleBuford
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I know. I’m just sharing my personal feelings, which I realise don’t align with what makes business sense for Disney.
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News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District
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A lawyer in one of the articles about this development said a court battle would likely take case in federal court. If true, that could help avoid at least some partisanship.
I had stopped following this story until today but when guys like this are saying Disney's special tax privileges, what are they referring to? I seem to recall back last year there were some saying Disney needed to pay their fair share of property taxes but as I understood it, not only did Disney pay taxes to the RCID but they also paid their required property taxes to the two counties.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
It was a hoax…and it was theater…
It was “hoaxy theater”
Everyone that “liked” this was sent 38 spam emails a week asking for donations.
Now the danger here is that the circus tries to “up the ante”
Disney isn’t into negative PR. That could cause problems
Disney Glimpses
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Yeah, they are full of it. I just shared to show that the developments carry enough weight to upset even Republicans.
So having read the last 8-9 pages since the news broke, is this best summarized as:
DeSantis got upset Disney stuck their nose into his business. He got his minions in the legislature to disband the RCID. They spent months coming up with a plan that they essentially thought would give a handpicked partisan board control over the district and possibly be able to influence Disney operations through that control. The legislature put that plan into motion and while they were patting each other on the back for their soon to be "win" over big bad Disney, no one from DeSantis, to his admin, to the state legislature to potential board members noticed the RCID was holding public hearings over an agreement that would, for all intents and purposes, severely cripple their power?
LOL.
DeSantis got upset Disney stuck their nose into his business. He got his minions in the legislature to disband the RCID. They spent months coming up with a plan that they essentially thought would give a handpicked partisan board control over the district and possibly be able to influence Disney operations through that control. The legislature put that plan into motion and while they were patting each other on the back for their soon to be "win" over big bad Disney, no one from DeSantis, to his admin, to the state legislature to potential board members noticed the RCID was holding public hearings over an agreement that would, for all intents and purposes, severely cripple their power?
LOL.
Yeah I thought so. I recall one of the state legislators made this claim last year and someone sent him screen shots of the county website showing the parcels Disney owned and what their annual tax bills to the respective county was.
Den Carter
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm seeing references to the deferral of control from RCID to Disney being for the next 30 years, and also being until 21 years after the date of the death of the last living descendant of King Charles as of now, which would, I think be Princess Lillibet. So assuming she doesn't die very young, that should be a lot longer than 30 years, right?
LivinDISLife
Member
The mouse had a card up his sleeve!
MagicHappens1971
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The development agreement is in place for 30 years
"WHEREAS, Sections 163.3220-163.3243, Florida Statutes (the “Florida Local Government Development Agreement Act”), authorize local governments and developers to enter into certain types of development agreements, with an initial duration of up to thirty (30) years, to provide certainty to both parties in terms of current and future processes and entitlements"
This part of the contract is in effect in perpetuity/ and or until the youngest descendant of King Charles III dies.
"WHEREAS, WDPR and/or its Affiliates (as defined in the Glossary of Terms attached as an Appendix) is/are the owner of certain parcels of land, located adjacent and/or near the R I D Properties, and also being aportionofthe R I D JurisdictionalLands, more particularly described on ExhibitB attached hereto and made a part hereof(each a "WIDPR Property" and collectively,
the "WDPR Properties"); and
WHEREAS, the WDPR Properties represent the vast majority of the RCID Jurisdictional
Lands and WDPR and/or its Affiliates have developed, and plan to continue to develop, theWDPR Properties into the Walt Disney World@ Resort (the Walt Disney World® Resort as further
developed and expanded is referred to as the"Project");"
Basically, the 30 year thing cements the plans in the development plan. The second part entitles WDW to certain rights of RCID powers and its land.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Like others have said... I stopped following this one a good while back...
... but MAN talk about a hilarious bump!
... but MAN talk about a hilarious bump!
rezzyk
Member
And absolutely no one who was paying attention said anything about it, which is amazing. Not even a local news company reporting on it? Fantastic.
Edit: I do remember somewhere (maybe even this site) posting about the future state hotel/park "plans" for 10 years out that is on the page following the one with this information. And yet still nothing about the previous page
Its linked in this article
Parts of Disney's last-minute agreement with Reedy Creek that may render the new DeSantis board powerless are valid until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III of England
Parts of Disney's last-minute agreement with Reedy Creek that may render the new DeSantis board powerless are valid until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III of England
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MagicHappens1971
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Just a funny thing to note, but the president of RCID at the time ended the meeting to approve these plans with this quote: "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
lazyboy97o
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I think they still very much deserve the criticism. Disney remains silent on the supposed instigating issue which the state is set to expand through rule making authority.
I really don’t think they were. This agreement would have kept things in place if the District was devolved to the counties.
MagicHappens1971
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RCID took out two different ads in the Orlando Sentinel regarding this meeting, and has notarized documentation that they exist. I don't know what grounds the governor and the new board have for saying what Disney did was illegal aside from their partisan and biased issues with Disney.