Upcoming Demolitions: At Racquet Club, a Gamble Rogers House and Park Ave Apartments | A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 7, 2025: Two city advisory boards will consider the three projects this week| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 7, 2025: Two city advisory boards will consider the three projects this week| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 27, 2025: A new Florida law requires Supervisors of Elections to mail letters to petition signers to give them the chance to deny the signature| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 27, 2025: Florida voters could be asked next year to cut their property taxes. That already has cities like Winter Park reeling over how they will fund essential services like police, fire and flood prevention.| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 25, 2025: Chris and Melody Cortez led the remake of the old Winter Park Library into a music hub. Board Chairman Jeff Flowers will now take the lead as Chris Cortez faces brain cancer| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 23, 2025 By Beth Kassab The Winter Park Racquet Club won approval for a new building in the residential enclave off Lake Maitland known as the Vias after a contentious debate with neighbors that included a final-hour meeting before Wednesday’s vote that led to additional conditions imposed on the 72-year-old private club. Commissioners voted […]| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 20, 2025 By Beth Kassab A controversial expansion planned by the exclusive Winter Park Racquet Club will look to the City Commission this week for final approval. Some residents in the neighborhood known as “the Vias,” a posh enclave between the shores of Lake Maitland and Temple Drive, oppose the changes at the club, […]| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 20, 2025 By Beth Kassab Each year the city of Winter Park, like many local governments, doles out a portion of public dollars to help nonprofits like Mead Botanical Gardens, Winter Park Day Nursery, the Winter Park Library and Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts. But this year, amid economic and budget uncertainty, the […]| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 16, 2025 By Beth Kassab Beginning next year, the popular Autumn Art Festival hosted by the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce in Central Park will move from October to November in order to shift “away from peak hurricane season as well as into cooler fall weather.” The announcement this week by chamber President and […]| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 15, 2025: The city will remain in District 5 with the eastern rural stretch of Orange County represented by Commissioner Kelly Martinez Semrad| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 14, 2025: Winter Park will spend the money to slow traffic and improve pedestrian safety along the busy stretch of the state road that connects Winter Park to Oviedo| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Oct. 8, 2025: The plans must still win approval from the City Commission| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
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Sept. 9, 2025: City officials asked the Park Avenue District to brand the season of events as "holiday," but Christmas is not disappearing from the names of the individual events| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Aug. 25, 2025: A group of private donors combined with public dollars made the $400,000 project possible| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Aug. 5, 2025: The city's $233.5 million budget accounts for 7% growth in property tax revenue based on higher values as well as increases in utility fees| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
By Beth Kassab Katrina Knight lives in Lakeland, more than 60 miles from Winter Park City Hall, but she has rarely missed a City Commission meeting since March, which marked just more than a year since her brother was shot five times by a Winter Park police officer during a 67-second encounter at| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
July 7, 2025: The draft $233.5 million city spending plan represents a nearly 9% increase over last year| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
Feb. 1, 2024 By Beth Kassab A proposal by Mayor Phil Anderson to delay the start of a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers by six months failed to gain traction Thursday morning as commissioners held a special meeting to discuss the change that is rivaling brick streets, the new library and multi-s| A Policy & Issues News Magazine
