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The Winter Park City Commission held a work session on August 13, 2026, from 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM to discuss proposed amendments to the city's Micromobility ordinance, covering e-bikes, electric motorcycles, scooters, and related devices. The discussion focused on definitions, operational rules, enforcement mechanisms, and safety education prerequisites.
Miles per hour. I mean the my correlation to medical mobility aids is the lark. I remember watching like so many commercials late night or I'm up and like and I see it. I don't think those things can go more than like eight miles an hour or five miles an hour. I just don't want somebody to be like, yeah, I've got a disability and my micromobility goes 30 miles an hour. I know that, you know, we can sit here and kind of joke about it, but I know that there could potentially be somebody out there that would be like it's exempt. You know, here's my disability and here's my handicap sticker or whatever. And I'm thinking to myself, I don't I don't want to necessarily legislate something that's gonna be an unknown, but you know, I guess I'm saying it as a forewarning of this is a moving space. It is, and I'll say this so uh the the top suggestion versus what I pulled from Deland's new ordinance, expressly exempt persons with disabilities would open the door a lot more to that. But when you say medical mobility aids, I think that that uh you're talking about the device and specifically designed to address something uh a mobility issue rather than exempting um and saying they have free-for-all, can ride uh uh dirt bike up and down. Yeah, again, I I fully agree. I think the idea of of regulating it based on the device as opposed to the person is much stronger because it's gonna bear much stronger, I think, constitutional scrutiny. So it's gonna, you know, I can't see anyone reasonably being able to say, oh, I have a disability that requires me to go 30 miles an hour on my mobility device. You know this Keanu Reeves and speed, maybe, but everybody else has to have a speed limit on the speed limiter on their mobility device. So yeah, so I'm I'm looking through this the floor definitions now, seeing anything immediately about that, but uh I'll do some additional digging and see if there's something that I can find because I I do recall when doing the research so that there was there was something about medical, there's some kind of carve out for medical stuff that was that was included. Um so I'll I'll dig into those additional details and I'll throw as much of that language in and that link to the extent that language does not exist. I think medical mobility uh devices is a perfectly perfect way to set it. And we'll we'll define that. We can throw in a quick definition of that to basically be a form of micro-mobility device, low speed that uh is intended primarily for the transportation of some, you know, something like that. We can throw something together like that pretty easily. Go ahead. Yeah, I I respectfully object to uh or areas of heavy pedestrian traffic as designated by a city manager by written designation. You know, I think that you know that means that one person without notice or um, you know, can I think it's just too broad. I think it's too much discretion, I think it's unnecessary. So I move to strike that. Are you saying put a period after or areas of heavy pedestrian traffic, period? Is that what you're saying? And take out as designated by the city manager by written designation. Yes. Well, I I I think that that's we don't have a definition for areas of hairy pedestrian traffic. We'd have to keep it, we'd have to end it at parks. Okay, that's right, parts. Yeah, that's fine. I I have no problem with that. I'm just saying the the areas of hairy pedestrian traffic um is is just we we took that language from another just to do process because then they you know, well, you know what I mean. Yeah, 100%. I it's always easier to throw in extra stuff and take it out. Um so I I've got no problem taking that out. That's and I I think especially because a lot of your areas of heaviest pedestrian traffic are already covered. Not to say that his description would not be free. Certainly, but uh, later, yeah. Well, looming in the shadow waiting to take over. Um uh no uh so in front of my house is too heavily. I uh I but I I I do think I do think that the the carve outs on areas is also is gonna address a lot of your heavy pedestrian traffic uh air anyway. And to your to your point,