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| | Boing Boing: Walt Disney World's permanent autonomous zone |
 | | The RCID is the name for the territory that Walt Disney World occupies, and it is a uniquely autonomous zone, which hardly has to answer to the state government at all. |
 | | When the state later established the Development of Regional Impact study process, the Walt Disney Company, through the District, was able to avoid the paperwork and streamline the process to build theme parks and other attractions. |
 | | On a related note, the Disney-controlled town of Celebration, Florida, which was built with many of Walt Disney's original ideas, which have evolved into a form of New Urbanism, was deannexed from the City of Bay Lake and the District to keep its residents from having power over the Walt Disney Company. |
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