Disney Loses Fl. special tax privileges.

Yesterday morning we were wrote about Disney being a pen stroke away from losing special tax privileges in Florida that no other company is offered under the reedy creek improvement district established on May 12th, 1967. Here is a brief explanation of the RCID,

is the governing jurisdiction and special taxing district for the land of Walt Disney World Resort. It includes 39.06 sq mi (101.2 km²) within the outer limits of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida. It acts with the same authority and responsibility as a county government. It includes the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, and unincorporated RCID land.

The district was created in 1967 after the Florida Government passed the Reedy Creek Improvement Act. The law was pushed for by Walt Disney and his namesake media company both before and after Walt’s death in 1966, during the planning stages of Walt Disney World.

 the Disney company petitioned the Florida State Legislature for the creation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which would have almost total autonomy within its borders. Residents of Orange and Osceola Counties did not need to pay any taxes unless they were residents of the district. Services like land use regulation and planning, building codes, surface water control, drainage, waste treatment, utilities, roads, bridges, fire protection, emergency medical services, and environmental services were overseen by the district. The only areas where the district had to submit to the county and state would be property taxes and elevator inspections.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve “the needs of those residing there”, because the company needed its own government to “clarify the district’s authority to [provide services] within the district’s limits”, and because of the public nature of the planned development. The original city boundaries did not cover the whole Improvement District; they may have been intended as the areas where communities would be built for residential use.

On April 21, 2022, the Florida Legislature passed a law abolishing the RCID, which critics claimed arose from Disney’s opposition to the Parental Rights in Education Act (which critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”). The law takes effect in June 2023, at which time the RCID would be dissolved.

For those who say this is a bill that says you can’t say gay I actually challenge you to take a moment and read the seven-page bill and find were the bill says anything about Gay and furthermore that you can’t say Gay. In matter of fact not once is the word gay mentioned in this bill, let alone that you can’t say Gay. We have not only read all Seven pages but also run it through a word counting program to verify if the word gay was used in the bill. Well guess what, it was mentioned ZERO times. Those saying this is a don’t say gay bill are the ones spreading false information to push their gay agenda over parental rights. We encourage you to share this bill with all liberals or those that believe that this bill is a don’t say gay bill.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/PDF

Disney has had 55 years of special privileges that no other company or group have been given, Disney chose to play politics when they should have stuck to being a tourist attraction. Not only have they lost their special privileges that should have been for a limited time to begin now allows the state to not look like it favors Disney over others and tells Disney they don’t run Florida.