Reimagining & Revitalizing Downtown Orlando

Expand downtown housing, fund 24/7 outreach and treatment access, activate vacant spaces through the CRA, strengthen transit, explore a circulator, and prevent displacement through CBAs, zoning, and local-hiring rules.

HB 433 and SB 742 block local-hire mandates, recent state camping restrictions narrow some homelessness responses, and the downtown circulator lane overlaps with the existing LYMMO service.

City Hall can use CRA financing, zoning, outreach contracts, and downtown activation grants. The weaker parts are the labor mandates and any promise framed as if the city controls the full transit network or can ignore newer state limits on encampment responses.

HB 433 / SB 742 — Local wage and hiring mandate preemption

State law limits local governments from imposing independent wage floors and certain local-hiring conditions on contractors.

No distinct legislative delivery record is attached here beyond the broader housing, transit, and labor agenda.

Lean on CRA activation funds, conversion incentives, supportive housing, public-realm improvements, and service coordination without making local-hire mandates the centerpiece.