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Disney, said there is no plan to create a separate jurisdiction for Disney America.
However, responsibility for adequate transportation improvements remains one important matter of negotiation.
It will take millions of dollars to widen Interstate 66, create an interchange at 66 and Rt. 15 and perhaps construct a Western and Eastern Bypass.
Parrish expects to co-sponsor legislation authorizing bonds for some of the improvements, to be paid off out of revenue from Disney’s park.
Parrish supports Disney’s project as a positive form of economic development and expects it to come to fruition. He said Disney’s site is free of sensitive historic and environmental resources that w ould suffer because of the park and the zoning allows for the development, so that there should be little opposition to the project on several fronts.
“They did all their homework on that.” he said. “They won’t have any trouble with the zoning.”
However, according to Doug James, director of planning for Prince William, the county has no zoning category for theme park development, but it is drafting one, since the prospect for a 150-acre Lego theme park has existed for some time. Until Disney files its first plan, which would be the next “logical step,” James said, the zoning question cannot be answered.
John Rutherford, formerly of Winchester, w ho has lived in the Orlando area 19 years and is with special projects and public relations in the Orlando/Orange County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said there is no doubt the Disney theme park will change the area it occupies, but
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