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Oviedo's proposed Ordinance No. 1776 would cap e-bikes and scooters at 15 mph on sidewalks, require slowing to 10 mph near pedestrians and fine repeat violators up to $250. The council's final vote was set for Monday night.
Longwood commissioners were scheduled Monday night to discuss sending $144,046 set aside for the house back to the general fund while the Longwood Historic Society takes ownership and raises money to move and restore it.
Next door in Casselberry, a 5:30 p.m. workshop will review the peafowl's biology and the city's 2017 bird sanctuary rules, which bar residents from trapping or harming the birds.
Oviedo would move to four-year council terms and require four of five votes to annex land from the county's Rural Area, while Longwood would also loosen its charter limits on borrowing.
Twenty-four agencies were told their county funding recommendations will wait until after the Nov. 3 election while officials weigh what the homestead exemption measure could do to the budget.
Seminole County's on-demand van service, which covers Winter Springs, topped 1,300 passengers on two days this month, but the county says the average wait for a pickup is about 48 minutes.
The ordinance passed its first reading Monday with no roosters, no sales of eggs and no hens on lots of 0.15 acre or less; HOA bans still apply. The final vote is set for Oct. 26.
Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily Oct. 19 through Nov. 1, and any county voter can use any site. Requests for a mailed ballot are due Oct. 22, and returned ballots must reach the elections office by 7 p.m. Nov. 3.
Chaban led the August primary with 42.86% to Culver's 30.20%, sending the nonpartisan county judge race to a runoff on the Nov. 3 ballot; here is where each candidate stands.
In voter-guide answers published Tuesday, Mayor Kevin McCann says the city cannot absorb the homestead exemption's revenue loss through efficiencies, while challenger Jesse Phillips wants it covered by budget cuts, not fees.
The neighboring city's third and final session on the proposed homestead exemption starts at 11 a.m. at Riverside Recreation Center. Supporters say property taxes weigh too heavily on homeowners.
The citizen committee left the mayor's powers unchanged on a 6-1 vote in August; on Oct. 15 it continues Articles I-IV, with a mix of district and at-large seats and candidate residency rules still under discussion.
Seminole County commissioners are asked Tuesday to add a manufactured-housing strategy to the county's state-funded housing plan, with grants of up to $5,000 for lot rent, $10,000 to relocate and $20,000 for urgent repairs.
A consent item at Monday's 6:30 p.m. commission meeting would set a travel and city credit card policy written for the mayor and commissioners, six months after they asked staff to draft one.
Water from a privately owned pond spilled onto MacGregor Road this week; the city brought in a pump and asks residents to report drainage trouble early, with storm chances of 60% to 70% through Sunday.
A Winter Springs city commissioner has asked officials to model the financial impact of eliminating funding for police and parks services in light of potential changes from Amendment 3.
A draft policy on Monday's consent agenda would cap each commissioner's travel at the budgeted amount, require receipts within 14 days and bar alcohol on reimbursements and city credit cards.
The draft would allow up to four hens on most single-family lots and bar roosters; the Planning and Zoning Board wants a required permit and course, and Commissioner Sarah Baker, who proposed the rules, disagrees.
Oviedo's City Council holds a public hearing Monday on rules that would cap e-bikes and scooters at 10 mph on sidewalks, require riders to yield to pedestrians and add escalating fines.
The Nov. 3 property tax amendment would raise the non-school homestead exemption to $250,000 by 2028; the county property appraiser estimates a $6.5 million two-year hit to the city.
Florida's Amendment 3 would raise the non-school homestead exemption to $250,000 by 2028; county appraiser figures put the city's revenue loss at $4.14 million in year two.
