Baseball stadium in Winter Park?

580 on- street parking spaces and 2,200 spaces in two garages to serve visitors.

A study of the economic impact a minor- league team would have on the area is being conducted for the city. It’s expected to be completed in April.

Miller said a minorleague team would be a great fit. “It’s $5 a seat, and it ’s affordable for the whole family. It’s a proven commodity.”

As proposed, the stadium would have seats for 2,500 to 3,000 people, plus berm seating for an additional 1,500, Miller said. By comparison, Champions Stadium at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, where the Atlanta Braves play each spring, has room for 9,500 fans. The Houston Astros have a 5,300- seat stadium for spring training in Kissimmee, while the University of Central Florida’s stadium accommodates 3,600 fans.“

We want it to have a small-town, old-style feel” mirroring the architectural style of the Rollins campus, Miller said, adding that 13 other college teams across the country share stadiums with minor-league teams.

The teams’ seasons would overlap from about mid-April to mid- May, Miller said, and scheduling would have to be coordinated during that period.

The Orlando area has been without a minorleague team since 2003, when the Orlando Rays left the Wide World of Sports complex and moved to Montgomery, Ala.

The most recent talk of a minor-league team for the Orlando area was in 2011, when Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs rejected a proposed International Drive stadium for a New York Yankees affiliate.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have since begun discussing potential changes to the program. One idea that has been suggested would give local governments the ability to redraw the boundaries of high-crime zones to exclude areas that should no longer be considered unsafe.

Sen. Dorothy Hukill, who leads the Senate Finance and Tax Committee, has told committee members that the urban-highcrime program is one of several incentives that will get an intensive review in coming weeks.

Hukill, R-Port Orange, said she is not attending this weekend’s fundraiser at Universal.

Some Democrats have said they, too, want to see changes.

“I think we need to go back and revisit it,” said Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, whose district includes some of Central Florida’s highest- crime neighborhoods. “They’re getting a tax break for something that wasn’t intended.” Association has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the merit-pay law, which bases half of a teacher’s evaluation on“student learning growth.” An “unsatisfactory” on that automatically means the overall rating must be “unsatisfactory.”

“We just think it’s really, really not valid,” said Mark Pudlow, spokesman for the statewide teachers union, wholabels the state’s plan “a ridiculous exercise.”

The Seminole School Board is considering appeals to local state legislators, school-board and superintendents’ organizations, and others in an attempt to stop implementation of the new evaluation rules.

“I have great concern about the science behind this,” said Ron Pinnell, Seminole’s human- resources executive.

“There are people’s careers on the line.”