Orange County is facing a federal lawsuit after the County Commission denied a Southwest Orange synagogue’s application to expand.
The Orlando Torah Center bought the home at 8613 Banyan Blvd., Orlando, in 2014, acquired a special exception to operate out of the former one-story residence in the Sand Lake Hills subdivision in 2020 and had applied to remodel the house-turned-religious-institution to accommodate a three-story building.
The roughly .75-acre property is zoned R-1A single-family residential…