News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

[LivinDISLife]

That's pretty much it. The DeSantis team COMPLETELY ignored the RCID board meetings during their victory lap.

I really can’t wait to see what late night skits come of this! I can’t stop laughing just reading through the pages here on the forum.

 

[GrumpyFan]

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.

Disagree. I think they executed this superbly keeping it behind the scenes and not causing more public backlash. Chapek exposed them to a lot of public criticism with his reckless moves and this was done just as it should have been.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

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 don't know much about contracts but this makes it seem as though this will be dealt with in Orange County.

 

[Big_Shakalaka]

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

I've worked at local municipal meetings and I can say... often contracts and such aren't read aloud or even shown to attendees. They are often just referenced generally, then voted on, unless there are motions for further detail. So, to those in attendance, it can look as just general day-to-day stuff with little fanfare. It sounds like these contracts were done in much a similar manor.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

Has DeSantis put a bounty on Harry’s kid yet?

He declared war on "woke England."

 

[V.i.n.c.e.n.t.]

Desantis just got owned by a Mouse!!!

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Lol. Good point. I should have said that at least a federal court would keep it out of DeSantis’ cronies hands.

…objection: overruled

 

[BrianLo]

I love a good happy ending.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I love a good happy ending.

This still isn’t necessarily a happy ending. The Board currently seems willing to spend Disney’s money litigating the land development agreements. They can also still do things like fire plan reviewers to drag out the permitting process. Or send in the fire department to aggressively enforce the Florida Fire Prevention Code. Or exercising their new powers regarding ride safety.

This agreement would have committed the counties to a level of service they were likely to not want to maintain. It would have staved off the apathy or disfunction of a split board. It impairs but does not stop a hostile board.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

The only shocking part is how long it took for them to find out

Is it shocking?

From the land of “woman married dog to gator in front of church group…details at 11.

Ten day first look weather calls for Hot…to be followed by Hot through next weekend”

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I love a good happy ending.

…what you do on your lunch break is your business

 

[Tha Realest]

TLDR, but Disney is now free to build all of the things it wasn’t going to build in the first place

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

This still isn’t necessarily a happy ending. The Board currently seems willing to spend Disney’s money litigating the land development agreements. They can also still do things like fire plan reviewers to drag out the permitting process. Or send in the fire department to aggressively enforce the Florida Fire Prevention Code. Or exercising their new powers regarding ride safety.

This agreement would have committed the counties to a level of service they were likely to not want to maintain. It would have staved off the apathy or disfunction of a split board. It impairs but does not stop a hostile board.

Political retribution for profit is still the big Risk for Disney.

It’s still a potential mess

 

[castlecake2.0]

TLDR, but Disney is now free to build all of the things it wasn’t going to build in the first place

Correct, but now no one else can build anything either.

 

[eddie104]

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.

Just admit it you were wrong to criticize them this time. Nobody is all knowing on this forum no need to act like you’re expert on everything concerning Disney.

This board needs to tread lightly with all this legal talk because this whole process could have been easily stalled. DeSantis is clearly in over his head.

 

[jpeden]

Does this give Disney a legal back door to invalidate the entire law? Basically the lawsuit or contract would have been unnecessary if the district hadn’t been dissolved. The dissolution of the district can now be shown to cause actual, tangible potential harm to the Walt Disney Company.

 

[Surferboy567]

If the state does sue Disney, will it hold up on court? I’d assume so, but this state has done things before.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

If the state does sue Disney, will it hold up on court? I’d assume so, but this state has done things before.

The state wouldn't be suing Disney. The CFTOD would be.

 

[brb1006]

Hubris in action- there is always someone cleverer than you!

Seriously though it would be interesting to see how this works legally.

The royal proclamation (which I witnessed being read out) said:

‘Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege lord, Charles III, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of his other realms and territories, King, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith’

England is a part of Great Britain (along with Scotland and Wales) so the King is King of England in the same way that Biden is President of Florida - its a legal fact but not a title

They should have gone full south park though and used his title King of Canada

This is already sounding like a good episode for the next season of South Park between Mickey Mouse and King of Canada.

 

[jpeden]

If the state does sue Disney, will it hold up on court? I’d assume so, but this state has done things before.

Even the most conservative justice is not going to try and set a new precedent by invalidating existing contract law or arguing that a law that had yet to be signed by the Governor has the ability to invalidate a legally executed and existing contract.