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Patti Labelle dropped 4 new cakes at Orlando Wal Marts recently. The names of the cakes and their descriptions are as follows.

1. The “On My Own ” Cake – Carrot cake on one side, red velvet on the other and some of Cindy Birdsong’s tears baked into both sides.

2. The “Somebody Loves You Baby” Cake – 3-layer yellow cake, chocolate fudge icing and the spirit of Diana Ross copying her group’s costumes at the Apollo back in the day.

3. The “When You’ve Been Blessed” Cake – 3-layer black forest cake with cherry filling and Patti crying on tv about only being known for her song about a prostitute aka Creole Lady Marmalade.

4. The “New Attitude” Cake – 3-layer caramel cake and caramel icing and her goddaughter Mariah Carey’s clonazepam and champagne flavored diamond drizzle.  

A follow up Health Department inspection of Gators Dockside at 5142 Dr Phillips Blvd is required after their December 15th inspection. 46 violations were discovered that day. The violations including Live, small flying insects in kitchen, bartender touching lemons with her bare hands prior to putting them in drinks, raw ground beef placed right next to ready to eat foods,  Soil residue build-up on the surface of all their dish racks. Read the full list on thedailycity.com. We live in a City that does not make inspections readily and easily available to locals. They’re hidden on a terrible app and a not much better website. Our city doesn’t force restaurant grades to be hung on the front of restaurant windows like in cities like New York. The ONLY people who actively don’t want this have to be restaurant owners. We all deserve to have easier access to this information. You shouldn’t have to depend on the news to hear it.

The City of Orlando Board of Zoning Adjustment is recommending approval of a variance request allowing a liquor store to open despite the the liquor store being:

1. 0 ft. from a church – Church of Living Waters Apostolic, Inc – This church sent the City a letter of support. It’s located in the same shopping center as the proposed liquor store.

2. 350 ft. from a church – River of Life Church – Behind the shopping center

3. 480 ft. from a school – 200 ft right of way

The Board is recommending approval of the Variance Request. The final decision will be presented to Orlando City Council January 22, 2018.

Oasis Liquors submitted the Variance Request for the 2,450 sq ft package store in the shopping center at 5772 N Orange Blossom Trl.

Per LDC Sec. 58.710 a minimum separation of 1,000 ft. from churches and schools is required to operate a full liquor store. If the proposed location is less than 500 ft. from a church or school then it may only be approved through a Variance.

The City considered the following when they made their approval recommendation:

1. The shared open hours of the church in the same plaza and liquor store should be minimal

2. Staff does not anticipate any negative consequences to the church from the establishment of the liquor store in the shopping plaza.

3. The OCPS School (Positive Pathways Transition Center) is located on the north side of Orange Blossom Trail. In this section of OBT the road contains 4 travel lanes as well as substantial shoulders and median. The right of way  is nearly 200 ft. wide. Staff feel that the 200 ft. ROW as well as the location of the liquor store within the core of the shopping center provide adequate buffer from the school.

Go to hell all of you. Why have a damn rule if you continuously break it? Just get rid of the law. No one cares where a liquor store is located and this one example is the best proof of that. Screw churches and school right? RIGHT.

We told you September 2016 that the 2500 home master planned community called The Grow was in the approval process. In August of 2017 a Judge ruled Orange County broke its own growth rules when it approved The Grow. The company behind The Grow is appealing.

This project had some pretty interesting aspects, unusual to your typical Central Florida development. Included in the project was a 9 Acre Working Farm Tract, 21 Acres of Community Gardens, an Event Barn, a Farmer’s Market Street, an Edible Landscape / Food Forest, 12 Miles of All Season Recreational Trails, bike share, 400 acres of preservation lands and more.

These ideas are unique and add to resident life. Perhaps they can be brought into existing neighborhoods.

Locals don’t want this development to get built because they want to preserve  the rural aspect of their area. What they don’t understand is our government is built to serve businesses. Only if these people have good lawyers and money to pay them do they ever stand a chance. And only if you get all those acres labeled as preservation land will you prevent other developments from coming in and trying the same thing.