Sunsetting the Reedy Creek Improvement District means that local counties will likely be left to foot the bill for potholes and emergency services at Disney World.
Highlights
- Florida Gov.
- Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill revoking the Walt Disney Company’s special district status in the state, just days after the legislation was first introduced.
- The bill, which would see the Reedy Creek Improvement District dissolved, passed the state Senate on Wednesday and the state’s House of Representatives on Thursday by a vote of 70-38.
- Critics see it as retribution for publicly quarreling with the governor over the company’s denouncement of Florida’s HB 1557 law last month.
- Disney established and continues to maintain more than 130 miles of roadways and 67 miles of waterways as well as government services such as fire protection, emergency services.