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Winter Park hosting transportation workshop on Orange Avenue Overlay

The City of Winter Park’s Planning and Transportation Department will host a special online workshop, in cooperation with Kinley-Horn Planning and Design Engineering Consultants, to discuss transportation topics related to the Orange Avenue Overlay District project. The virtual discussion will cover the following topics, as related to a proposed revisioning of the Orange Avenue corridor. […]

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Survey Alert: Tell Winter Park what you think about those Orange Avenue Overlay renderings

UPDATE: The City Commission Work Session has been rescheduled from October 8 to 1-3 p.m. October 15 instead. The City of Winter Park is asking for feedback on a recently-released report on its proposed Orange Avenue Overlay. The plan, which was put on a sudden and temporary hiatus this summer, calls to overhaul the Winter […]

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Winter Park’s Orange Avenue Overlay goes back to the drawing table

You may recall that we told you HERE in January about a special initiative that the City of Winter Park had labeled the “Orange Avenue Overlay District.” The plan aimed to establish building codes that were tailored to 75-acres of land along the Orange Avenue corridor in Winter Park, to promote certain types of development. […]

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Winter Park approves first read of Orange Avenue Overlay District

On January 16, the Winter Park City Commission approved the Orange Avenue Overlay District in a 3-2 vote that has some chins wagging. The 95-acre Overlay District is essentially a permitting tool that will set new land development code regulations for a specific part of Winter Park that ranges from Pennsylvania Avenue to Westchester Avenue, […]

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Winter Park hosting virtual meeting on OAO prior to Planning and Zoning approval

The City of Winter Park will host a special virtual meeting on Monday, March 15 at 5:30 p.m. to allow the public a chance to comment on the latest Orange Avenue Overlay updates prior to it being approved by Winter Park Planning and Zoning in the near future. The Orange Avenue Overlay (OAO) will establish […]

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Winter Park launches online survey for Progress Point property

The City of Winter Park’s Planning and Transportation Department has launched an online survey regarding the future use of the former Progress Energy site, often referred to as “Progress Point,” located at the intersection of Denning Drive and Orange Avenue. Survey results will help shape a conceptual design for the city-owned site, which will be presented in a […]

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TOP TEN THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK

SPONSORED by the Orange County Library System: This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s Bungalow Neighborhood news, and some bonus headlines you may have missed. Our latest episode of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 has been podcasted and is available HERE. TOP TEN HEADLINES: The Orange […]

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TOP TEN THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK

SPONSORED by Orlando Museum of Art: This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s Bungalow Neighborhood news, and some bonus headlines you may have missed. Our latest episode of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 has been podcasted and is available HERE. This week’s episode was recorded […]

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TOP TEN THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK

SPONSORED by the Orange County Library System: This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s Bungalow Neighborhood news, and some bonus headlines you may have missed. Our latest episode of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 has been podcasted and is available HERE. This week’s episode […]

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Ask Bungalower: Why do the Downtown 7-Elevens look the way they do?

Our readers like to ask a lot of questions. Which is great, because we like to be nosy. This time though, we had to defer to an expert. “The recent report on the many new 7-Eleven locations had me thinking… What’s up with the outlandish architecture of the 7-Elevens around Downtown (e.g. Colonial and Magnolia, […]

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Sensarie is mapping Orlando’s singles and food hubs

Orlando Singles Map via Sensarie.com   Sensarie (Website), formerly known as MoversAtlas, is one of the recent graduates from Starter Studios (Facebook | Website) latest cohorts of Orlando startups. We wrote about another Starter Studio graduate, BackStory (Facebook | Website), HERE. Sensarie is currently in their beta testing phase maps based on hyper-local data sets. The map […]