About a month ago, a man came into a Vista Lakes office collecting signatures for a petition supporting a connection between the Beachline and Avalon Park.
A week later employees got an e-mail from Lake Mary Jane Alliance in southeast Orlando, a group that informs residents of proposed developments coming into their area, warning people that petitioners hired by Suburban Land Reserve developers were misleading the public saying their signatures would support the Beachline interchange near Alafaya Trail when they were actually petitioning for Innovation, a project that combines International Corporate Park, a plan estimated to bring 10,000 jobs in southeast Orlando with a residential plan for about 6,300 homes near the Econ River called Innovation Way East.
When Innovation developers went before the Orange Co Commission on May 11, they boasted the 17,000 signatures they were able to collect in two weeks in support of their project. After some prodding from commissioners, they added that some of the petitioners were paid $5 per signature.
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