Editing Lake Buena Vista, Florida (section)

==History==
Chapter 67-1965 of the Laws of Florida, incorporating the '''''City of Reedy Creek''''', was signed into law by Governor [[Claude R. Kirk, Jr.]] on May 12, 1967, the same day he also signed chapters 67-764 (creating the [[Reedy Creek Improvement District]]), also known as the [[Reedy Creek Improvement Act]], and 67-1104 (incorporating the [[Bay Lake, Florida|city of Bay Lake]]). It was located fully inside the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The city was controlled by [[The Walt Disney Company]] and allowed it powers that other area attractions had not had.

[[Image:Reedy Creek Office.jpg|thumb|left|Reedy Creek Improvement District Office in Lake Buena Vista.]]
Chapter 69-1527, which became law on July 3, 1969, without the governor's approval, redefined the city boundaries. The city was completely moved, taking over some land that had been part of the City of Bay Lake (and was given up by Chapter 69-836, which became a law the same day) and including some other land that had formerly been unincorporated. Soon after, the City of Reedy Creek was renamed to the '''''City of Lake Buena Vista''''' to better reflect its new location, through which Reedy Creek did not flow. "[[Buena Vista (brand)|Buena Vista]]" comes from [[Buena Vista Street (Burbank, California)|the name of the street]] in [[Burbank, California]], where [[The Walt Disney Company]] is headquartered.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District had all the powers of the city and more, raising the question of why cities needed to be incorporated inside it. [[Walt Disney]]'s original plans for the site were to construct a futuristic, fully-functional city; a planned "[[Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (concept)|community of the future]]". This was never built, but some of the ideas were incorporated into the [[Epcot|EPCOT theme park]] and later [[Celebration, Florida]]. The only residents of the city are Disney employees and their immediate family members who live in a small community on Royal Oak Court, north of [[Disney Springs]]. From 1971 to 2022, the only landowners are fully owned [[subsidiaries]] of Disney, and rights-of-way for state and county roads.

On February 27, 2023, the [[Florida Legislature]] passed House Bill 9B to supersede the [[Reedy Creek Improvement Act]], replacing the Reedy Creek Improvement District with the [[Central Florida Tourism Oversight District]].