Orange County staff will update commissioners Tuesday on efforts to bring the county’s new comprehensive plan, Vision 2050, into compliance with a controversial state law that restricts local government planning.
Neither Vision 2050 nor its corresponding set of new zoning rules known as the Orange Code are currently in effect. Commissioners approved both in June of last year, following eight years and tens of thousands of hours of work by county staff. But last July, a letter from the Florida Department of Commerce informed Orange County its new planning framework was in conflict with state law — and, therefore, “null and void.”
The county then began meeting with state officials to discuss how to bring Vision 2050 into compliance…