ORLANDO, Fla. – The city of Orlando has formally filed a request to exempt the Pulse crosswalk from a slew of traffic devices that the Florida Department of Transportation ordered to be removed.

City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, who represents the district where the former Pulse nightclub sits, revealed the news of the filing during a regularly scheduled city council meeting on Monday afternoon.

“Mayor [Buddy] Dyer did file a letter of exception on the removal,” Sheehan said during the meeting. “The city did the right thing.”

The announcement came during a meeting in which city commissioners approved a funding agreement with Orange County to support a permanent Pulse memorial.

The crosswalk outside Pulse, at South Orange Avenue and West Esther Street, has become a point of content

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