They aren’t turning over undeveloped land to get it off their balance sheet. They are turning over land they own so that it can be developed into roads, bridges, fire stations, power plants, etc… using tax money they pay. Why shouldn’t they get to dictate how their tax dollars are spent developing their land?
I'd argue that since it was an over 100% increase in population from the previous decade (340k btw, not 350k), the local government apparatus still hadn't caught up to Disney's needs, since they were catching up to their own population boom.
The new board is not just a clown show, they're the entire circus.
This is exactly why I keep pointing to earlier discussions and source material explaining special districts.
But they’re different types of documents, each requiring different mechanisms for public hearings and required notices.
Because the infrastructure that's being developed is for the operation of their business, it's not for public use. World Drive isn't fundamentally any different than the walking paths in Adventureland.
Wait, you’re saying public transport shouldn’t be publicly funded?
Again, I'm not saying the arrangement was illegal. I'm saying I don't like it.
That's not true. Several times when staying off site it was easier to use RCID roads to get elsewhere in the area to avoid traffic. The roads are open to the public not just those visiting Disney
I get what you’re saying and wouldn’t necessarily like that either. But I haven’t really seen anything proving Disney’s interest with RCID was for anything but control, not financial motives. WDW wanted to maintain their standards and for that they were willing to pay a premium. Yes maybe it helped expedite and keep things more efficient in the long game, but where were they not paying their share or trying to load it off on someone else? Municipal bonds, yes. For municipal things, infrastructure. I don’t see shirking financial responsibility in any of this.
Except it absolutely is for public use. Disney is not the only entity that benefits from that infrastructure.
I'm pretty sure kong was being sarcastic - especially that part about being the "only special district in the entire universe".
I didn't say Disney paid any more or less in taxes, the analogy was asking if you would like it if your neighbor got a special break on taxes for life... in this instance what Disney got may not have amount to anything in lower taxes but it did provide them at the very least with a special pass on normal permits and other things that would take any other competitor much longer because they weren't going to be dealing with a oversight board that was really run by themselves.
Maybe Google sarcasm?
Yet again, I never said Disney paid less in taxes they simply get special red carpet treatment from their own corporate run government oversight board. I used taxes as an example that the poster might understand as most people are familiar with paying taxes but few have to ever deal with a local government when seeking permits and such.
You’ve just used another bad example. There is no special pass on normal permits, whatever those are. It’s the same type of process and is often considered the most onerous of the local area.
For a corporation time is very valuable. Having worked in a corporation that had to deal with multiple government entities for permits on pipelines we built, I can assure you that having a special entity that fast tracks every permit you need is very valuable. I've watch large construction teams sit around for weeks at a time simply because an inspector didn't show up to sign on what had been done.
