What she said
The platform includes tenant rules, inclusionary requirements, gun-safety actions, plastic reduction, local labor standards, and broader uses for Tourist Development Tax revenue.
What we found
Florida statutes limit municipal rent control, preempt categories of residential-tenancy and firearms regulation, require full cost offsets for inclusionary mandates, constrain local packaging rules and wage mandates, and define TDT uses. Eskamani filed a 2026 TDT reform bill; it died in committee without changing the law.
Under current state law and preemption, several promises cannot be offered as City Hall guarantees without Tallahassee action or careful narrowing. Orlando is not powerless, but the lawful alternatives are smaller than the combined campaign language suggests.
- The cited statutes impose real limits on unilateral municipal regulation and TDT use.
Important context
State constraints do not erase local responsibility. Orlando still has lawful tools through city land, incentives, procurement, budgets, partnerships, code enforcement, and public advocacy.
The platform can place a state-preempted version beside a narrower lawful option without telling voters which one is promised. It often does not distinguish a city action, a voluntary incentive, an ordinance exposed to challenge, and a Tallahassee objective.
- The mayor retains meaningful lawful tools through incentives, city land, procurement, budgeting, partnerships, and advocacy.
Still unanswered
For each state-constrained promise, what will you guarantee under current law, what needs Tallahassee, and which lawful fallback will you fund if state law does not change?
A promise-by-promise legal plan naming the proposed ordinance or program, current authority, litigation risk, needed state bill, funded fallback, and delivery owner would make the boundaries testable.