Orange County’s Vision 2050 — a comprehensive plan years in the making, shaped by community voices and aimed at creating a more livable, sustainable future — is now in legal limbo.
Why? Because of a deeply flawed state law passed just months ago: Senate Bill 180.
This legislation, passed during the final days of Florida’s 2025 legislative session, was sold as a post-hurricane “emergency measure” to help communities rebuild faster. But buried in its pages were sweeping provisions that have nothing to do with disaster recovery — and everything to do with stripping away local control…