Vote to dissolve Disney’s special district, eliminating privileges

Re:Vote to dissolve Disney’s special district, eliminating p... by colburnmh on Thursday April 21, 2022 @03:17PM (#31113990)

Because, unlike most businesses, Disney's park straddles two different counties (Orange and Osceola). Therefore, they have to deal with two different counties to get anything done in a consistent fashion. Further, by having control of their own infrastructure, they can control the standard of quality. Pass that to two different counties, and some of the differences between how the counties are managed will start to affect Disney's business. Image part of the park losing power due to one county deferring maintenance on their power grid, etc.

Part of the "magic" of Disney is that they get to control the experience from road maintenance to providing power to the park. Now that control will move to the counties with no guarantee that they will continue to provide that infrastructure to the same standard as Disney currently does.

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Re:Vote to dissolve Disney’s special district, eliminating p... by beerandt on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:57PM (#31117027)

>two different counties

This was a hedge done on purpose, so that (among other reasons) they wouldn't be 100% at the mercy of a single governing entity.

There's a loss of consistency between the two, but that's a feature, not a bug.

If one county doesn't cooperate with what's needed for, eg, a new park, Disney can threaten to put it in the other county instead.

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Re:Vote to dissolve Disney’s special district, eliminating p... by pyuser583 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:55PM (#31139003)

But that “magic” is because of legal arrangement only Disney has.

At the least, aren’t there anti trust issues here? If other investors wanted to create a Disneyworld like park - they couldn’t.

At the very least they’d have to spend lots of time and money getting zoning approval.

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