{"id":296,"date":"2017-06-16T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-06-16T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:01:36","slug":"lakeland-plans-stormwater-fee-hike-anyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Plans Stormwater Fee Hike; Anyone Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/cityclerk\/agendas\">Lakeland City Commission<\/a> on Monday will consider a 60 percent increase in its stormwater fee over the next four years to deal with the increased costs of complying with federal pollution regulations to fund pollution-control projects to aid lakes within the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>It will be worth noting whether any other local jurisdiction with substantial lake-improvement needs\u2014primarily Winter Haven and Polk County\u2014will consider any increases as they consider next year&#8217;s budget.\n<\/p>\n<p>The only tax increase that has been discussed so far for the County Commission involves plans to fund the backlog of growth-related road projects that were unfunded during the impact fee moratorium.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/news\/20170613\/county-to-fund-2-northeast-polk-road-projects\">The Ledger<\/a> reports there are plans to fund preliminary work on the widening of Lake Wilson Road and a portion of Cypress Parkway around Solivita, an upscale community adjacent to Poinciana by diverting $30 million from a fund that was supposed to provide the county&#8217;s share of the cost of building the second phase of the Bartow Northern Connector, a truck bypass  around Bartow for which Polk had finally obtained  funding in next year&#8217;s state budget and which escaped Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s veto pen.\n<\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports so far of any plans by Winter Haven officials to increase the city&#8217;s stormwater fee.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakeland City Commission on Monday will consider a 60 percent increase in its stormwater fee over the next four years to deal with the increased costs of complying with federal pollution regulations to fund pollution-control projects to aid lakes within the city. It will be worth noting whether any other local jurisdiction with substantial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}