3 seats on Orlando City Council attract slew of candidates as election season approaches

With election season beginning to ramp up, 11 so far have declared their candidacies for three seats on the Orlando City Council that represent residents from Lake Nona to downtown Orlando up into College Park and Rosemont.

More than half are in District 3, where Robert Stuart is retiring after representing it since 2006. So far, six candidates have filed to succeed him serving the northwest portion of the city.

While in fast-growing Lake Nona, incumbent Jim Gray, the nonpartisan board’s lone Republican, is trying to hold on to his seat and faces familiar challengers in former state Rep. Tom Keen, D-Orlando, and Sunshine Grund, also a Democrat.

And District 5 could have more twists and turns ahead as interim commissioner Shan Rose is slated to take on Regina Hill, who was suspended last year following a felony indictment on charges that have yet to be tried in court.




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