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ney people to get their project built, but no one says Disney did anything illegal or even unethical. The Disney Co. followed the laws that those same officials had written, or rather that they failed to write to prevent the ugly plastic sprawl they now hate.
Disney didn’t rezone for roadside strip development and strip malls in Florida, or even have a piece of the action. Local people, local governments, did that. And that is where the giant issue lies here in Virginia.
There is an axiom of real estate speculators: Buy land along the road where it stops selling by the square foot and starts selling by the acre. Not long ago that epicenter of open roadside land selling by the acre in this region was a 180-acre place called the Storm Farm, asking price $900 an acre; it is now named Tysons Comer.
Moving only 30 miles west from Washington in the 1990s, that epicenter is at Haymarket. If not Disney’s America, this sweeping, open land will sooner or later become some other commercial/industrial fantasy land.
Even before Disney arose, Prince William County’s population was projected to grow 95 percent from 1990 to 2020, largely in this western open country which its county fathers, like it or not, regard as their breadbasket.
Disney’s America by itself could be a good neighbor and employer. Interestingly enough, the most rei
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