New Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board outlines its plans as it assumes control over Reedy Creek at Walt Disney World

Apr 19, 2023 in "Reedy Creek Improvement District"

Posted: Wednesday April 19, 2023 10:40am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

At today's Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board meeting, the new management board outlined several priorities that it hopes to evaluate and implement as it takes over from Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Reedy Creek Improvement District overview

The board said that they will aim to provide the governor with a report before the next Florida legislative session so they can make more long-term changes to the legislation of the district.

Here is a run-down of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District's current plans as outlined at today's meeting:

Creating new zoning to develop affordable and workforce housing
Creating voting rights for future residents in that housing
Developing better traffic solutions for the surrounding counties
Reducing the carbon footprint for the district
Aligning the district's interests to join Osceola and Orange counties to fight Disney's lawsuits relating to taxes
Join the counties and school boards in efforts to create funding for public schools in Central Florida
Evaluate regulating Disney like every other business in Central Florida
Charging utility rates that are not controlled by Disney
Evaluate providing more transparent to the districted governors
Implementing new accounting standards
Increasing the district revenues
Evaluate how to monetize assets of the districts to pay off debts

The board also revealed that Disney created an agreement with Reedy Creek Improvement District prior to the arrival of the new board to set their own utility rates. Board member Martin Garcia said, "Disney is going to tell the governing body what utility rates they are going to pay and what everyone else in the district is going to pay."

We expect to hear more on many of these points during the presentations later this morning at the board meeting.

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DCBaker10 hours ago

Here's the full packet: https://www.oversightdistrict.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3-28-25-BOS-Agenda-packet.pdf Item 7.4 on the Sunshine Corridor PD&E Study:

Dr.GrantSeeker2 days ago

Oof, 2031 is a long ways away! Wonder how long it will actually take if and when they start it. Edit: thanks Len!

castlecake2.02 days ago

lentesta2 days ago

AFAIK the road budget is still in place. IIRC it was a tie-in of Western Way to the east side of property. ETA: Yep. Look at Exhibit D in this doc from the CFTOD boaerd meeting on 2024-06-05.

LAKid532 days ago

What more can be done?

Dr.GrantSeeker2 days ago

I remember RCID approving a bunch of infrastructure work for Western Way and the BV Drive intersection right before they became CFTOD. Do we still know if these improvements are going to happen and when? @lentesta I’m tagging you because i vaguely remember you talking about this a year ago-ish, which is how I learned about it in the first place. Unless my memory is totally wrong (which it could be) so I apologize in advance if you never mentioned these improvements!

LAKid532 days ago

Have you met OC Planning? Their middle name is urban sprawl....

LAKid532 days ago

It is. I laugh everytime I'm GPSed through property on the way back from MCO. And I think the same on the way home from Port Canaveral. I'd rather make a larger loop around than drive Osceola Parkway to LBV Drive to Western Way to Hartzog.

lazyboy97o2 days ago

And instead of real solutions people just double down on the causes of traffic.

castlecake2.02 days ago

The blessing of size lead to urban sprawl on property, the very thing Walt’s EPCOT was trying to fix. One solution could be trying to implement public transit to get Cast living nearby to work, but Orlando’s transit is terrible, and the sprawl across property makes it hard to make an efficient system for moving people. Now with the sprawl surrounding the property, Disney roads are becoming the shortcuts. The isolated feel of entire resort is quickly disappearing.

LAKid532 days ago

State Road 535 (Avalon Road) North from the intersection at Hartzog is now wall to wall apartment complexes up to New Independence. I had to make a detour to get out of Waterleigh due to road resurfacing and the same is going south. The roads in Horizons West currently can't handle the traffic resulting from the increase in developments. Yeah, it's nice that 429 North of the toll before the Turnpike had been widened, but it's a hot mess in the AM & PM up to that spot. The amount of construction since I bought 2.5 years ago is insane. Don't know HOW they'll widen Western Way once you leave property because there's not much space to add another lane under the 429 overpass. Flamingo Crossings area is growing. And the roads can't handle the traffic.

LuvtheGoof2 days ago

Western Way was really bad around 5:30 yesterday. And then a few idiots on the turnpike going north decided to have a 4 car pile up, blocking both lanes in the construction area, and our normal 2 - 2 1/2 hour trip took almost 4 hours last night!

LAKid533 days ago

My GPS sends me THROUGH property on the way back from MCO. But South on 429 to get there.

LAKid533 days ago

Avalon is bad in the mornings & evenings. Now imagine adding a 1400 unit housing project on Hartzog just before the curve to the intersection with Avalon. Which was just widened up to Schofield.