{"id":19810,"date":"2013-03-12T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19810"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:34:57","slug":"impact-fees-slashed-by-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/impact-fees-slashed-by-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Fees Slashed by 80%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/impact-fees-slashed-by-80\/lee-county-commissioners-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19811 aligncenter\" title=\"Lee County Commissioners\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lee-County-Commissioners-300x81.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lee-County-Commissioners-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lee-County-Commissioners.png 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At the Lee County Commissioners meeting today the commissioners voted to slash impact fees by 80 percent \u2013 this is a $10,000 deduction on the average cost of a new home in Lee County.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commissioner Frank Mann cast the only dissenting vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This move reduces Lee County\u2019s impact fees on a new single family house to $2,500. Fees on commercial and industrial buildings were also reduced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commissioners agreed to keep the all impact fees that fire districts and emergency services levy, because some are tied to debt repayment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Mann, somebody has to pay for the roads and the schools, the parks, everything that is part of growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Lee County Commissioners meeting today the commissioners voted to slash impact fees by 80 percent \u2013 this is a $10,000 deduction on the average cost of a new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}