{"id":460,"date":"2018-01-17T22:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=460"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T03:57:29","slug":"orange-park-impact-fees-dwarf-polk-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Orange Park Impact Fees Dwarf Polk Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Commission voted this month to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/orange\/os-orange-county-impact-fees-20180108-story.html\">increase impact fees<\/a> significantly to keep up with growth and land costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>One significant increase was in park impact fees, which are now $1,544 per new home, compared to only $178 in Polk County. Orange County officials said the fee increase was justified because of rising land prices to purchase new parks to serve the county&#8217;s growing population.\n<\/p>\n<p>Polk, by contrast, has purchased land for new parks, but one site in the Lakeland suburbs has remained undeveloped for several years because of lack of funds.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Polk commission&#8217;s five-year moratorium on impact fees and the modest impact fee schedule that was adopted since the moratorium ended still leaves a  deficit, it seems.\n<\/p>\n<p>   \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Commission voted this month to increase impact fees significantly to keep up with growth and land costs. One significant increase was in park impact fees, which are now $1,544 per new home, compared to only $178 in Polk County. Orange County officials said the fee increase was justified because of rising land [&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-460","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\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}