Scott PowersMay 13, 2019
3min313
Siplin now has raised $53,000, Burns $16,000.
Tag: Orlando city CouncilState Sen. Vic Torres at U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost event before the collapse. Photo via Jacob Ogles.
Scott PowersMay 13, 2019Scott PowersFebruary 12, 2018
6min347
Orlando city officials took one of the biggest steps of any Florida city in recent years to ease laws that restrict vacation rentals, approving an ordinance Monday to allow owner-occupied rentals in single-family residential zones. The move, approved 6-1, takes effect July 1, ending what has effectively been a 26-year ban on vacation rental homes […]
Scott PowersNovember 27, 2017
6min386
The city of Orlando is considering a resolution that would have the City Council and Mayor Buddy Dyer formally declare their policy that police and other city officials not get involved in immigration matters, including a policy against questioning people whether their status is legal or not. The resolution would state what already is the […]
Scott PowersNovember 7, 2017
3min624
Orlando is virtually a boomtown city and voters are seeing it that way, returning all three incumbent city commissioners, Jim Gray Robert Stuart and Regina Hill to new terms on the City Council. With all but provisional ballots counted, Gray easily won a second term, strongly defeating challenger Tom Keen in District 1, 53 percent to 40 percent. In […]
Peter SchorschAugust 1, 2017
5min418
In modern politics, faith has always been somewhat of a double-edged sword. For most voters, a candidate who embraces faith — no matter which faith that would be — is seen as a positive. But in the case of Asima Azam, a real estate attorney vying to be the first Muslim-American elected to the Orlando […]
Larry GriffinMarch 14, 2016
4min458
At a council meeting Monday, protesters of a proposed development compared the city’s actions to those of officials presiding over the water crisis in Flint, MI. The item before the city was the first reading of an ordinance for the annexation of a 9.6-acre plot at 3604 West New Hampshire Street from the county into the city. […]
Scott PowersFebruary 8, 2016
4min232
The University of Central Florida proposed downtown campus has its $67 million commitment from the city of Orlando, but that doesn’t mean the university has what it takes yet to get state approval. Orlando City Council voted unanimously Monday afternoon to approve a deal that would donate land, a building and infrastructure improvements toward UCF’s […]
Scott PowersFebruary 7, 2016
9min225
Orlando’s big vision for downtown, the Creative Village development, hinges on a lot of ifs, and Orlando City Council is going to consider addressing the first big if Monday. Creative Village plans first hatched more than five years ago envision turning 68 acres of what is now mostly vacant moonscape, which once held the now-razed […]
Scott PowersFebruary 2, 2016
4min243
As the University of Central Florida struggles to meet state demands before asking Florida for $20 million for a new downtown Orlando campus, the city is offering to show the state its commitment, with contributions it values at $75 million. Orlando City Council will be asked Monday to consider a plan that calls for Orlando to […]
Scott PowersJanuary 25, 2016
3min393
The Orlando City Soccer Club now has the land it needs to build its new stadium in the Parramore neighborhood west of downtown. The Orlando City Council Monday approved a deal to sell the land to the soccer club’s stadium company, Orlando Soccer Stadium LLC for $17.99 million, closing a deal that had the city […]
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