I want to know if there are any houses left on Walt Disney World property. People who just refused to sell there place to Disney. Are there any homes left? If so, Where are they located?
thanks
I want to know if there are any houses left on Walt Disney World property. People who just refused to sell there place to Disney. Are there any homes left? If so, Where are they located?
thanks
No. Mostly because there were no houses to speak of. After buying and consolidating land the Florida Legislature granted disney a quasi-government status – The Reedy Creek Improvement District. It operates like a County and has the power to tax and take property by eminent domain. (Which has apparently been only used once). It also has a few residents for voting purposes, but all of the residents are Disney employees.
Walt Disney bought land that was predominantly swamp land. People that did own any of that swamp land were more than happy to get rid of it. He didn’t buy residential areas, or tear down people’s homes, or anything like that.
Disney did end up building a community though, called Celebration. Celebration, Florida is owned by the Walt Disney World Company and there are 11,000 people currently living there. Celebration connects directly to the WDW parks and resorts; the north end of World Drive begins near the Magic Kingdom and its south end connects to Celebration Boulevard, allowing Celebration residents and guests to drive to Disney property without having to use any busy thoroughfares.
So while Disney didn’t cause anybody to lose their homes with his building, his company did cause thousands of people to find new homes. =-)
no but he did build new homes. He named his community celebration (thats why the firework show in magic kingdom is called “celebrate”. celebration has about 10,000 people living there. it has a school and a newly built hospital. fire department, post office, schools, and a golf course also many play parks.
Where its situated one end of it leads into the magic kingdom, this is one of the priveldes of living here is that they also have passes to get into disney as a discount and dont have to drive through busy streets to get there.
No. The Walt Disney World property was empty land when Disney originally bought it, so there was no land disputes over it.
I doubt you will find any ‘hold-outs’ within the Florida property owned by Disney. First off; most of the original property was cattle pastures, wetlands, scrub forest, and citrus groves. There have been rumors of a lone holdout still living somewhere within Disney property, but I can not confirm this. The Walt Disney World property has its own local government, the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Even if there were one last residence owned by someone else; that property would still fall under the jurisdiction of the District; which has great power over zoning-so I doubt the property could easily be purchased.
According to the Reedy Creek Improvement District; there are only Disney owned manufactured homes on the property, and no other residences. These homes are in two separate areas and rented out to Disney employees.
“HOUSING PROFILE OF THE DISTRICT
PERMANENT HOUSING
In 1998, the RCID had a permanent population of 47 residents living in 17 manufactured homes. The supply of housing in the District is sufficient to meet the needs of these residents, and in fact has been specifically planned and designed for these residents. The homes are in two licensed mobile home parks, one in Lake Buena Vista off of Buena Vista Drive, and the other on the north shore of Bay Lake. The Lake Buena Vista complex has 9 units and a permitted capacity of 9 units. The Bay Lake complex has 8 units and a permitted capacity of 12 units. Housing costs for these residents fall within state guidelines for affordability — expenses for housing are no greater than 30 percent of gross monthly income for residents.
Table 4-1 and Figure 4-3 show the location of all permanent housing units in the District in 1998. There are no other housing types within District boundaries.”
2008 Reedy Creek Improvement District Comprehensive Plan
http://www.rcid.org/uploads/rcid-comp-plan_housing1.pdf
The only houses on Disney property are owned by Disney executives (one of the perks). The only place within property that did now sell was Bonnet Creek. They are now a big resort with hotels not owned by Disney. The only way onto Bonnet Creek Resort is via Disney roads so WDW makes money off of them anyway.