05-19-2023, 12:25 PM
(05-19-2023, 12:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I consider myself corrected and thank you. I still have to wonder if taking away a special privilege can be counted as an infringement, retaliatory or not. Treating you the same as everyone else doesn't seem like a punishment.
It's not treating them the same as everyone else, though. Community Development Districts (CDDs) are an administrative division of Florida's government established and governed by Florida law. Under Florida law, these districts are government by a board of supervisors (B0S) elected by the landowners. The Reedy Creek CDD encompasses land owned entirely (or almost entirely) by Disney. The law passed by Florida stripped them of their ability to elect their own BoS, rename the district, and made them governed by a governor appointed board. So this created a different type of special district just for Disney that is unique, unlike their prior status which was something established in Florida law and is in use in other places (most notably The Villages).
So, if anything, the special treatment is what the new legislation established.
(I can get real wonky on this stuff because I am an appointed zoning official in my municipality which means land use laws like this are a specialty of my technocratic knowledge)
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
