{"id":20422,"date":"2022-02-25T21:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20422"},"modified":"2022-02-25T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T02:40:54","slug":"will-the-city-leaders-find-the-right-path-to-fix-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/02\/25\/will-the-city-leaders-find-the-right-path-to-fix-the-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the City Leaders find the right path to fix the roads?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Commissioners consider a congested traffic grid muddled by at least $200 million in unfunded road projects, costly jurisdictional difficulties, a state law that allows little discretion, and the pressing reality that more cars, people, homes, and businesses are coming to Lakeland regardless if roads are ready or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"740\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" data-id=\"20423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/s-fl.jpg?resize=1110%2C740&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/s-fl.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/s-fl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/s-fl.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/s-fl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"620\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" data-id=\"20424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?resize=1110%2C620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C859&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BNAR36GIH4I6TGNIIBWI6S7HAY-scaled.jpg?w=2220&amp;ssl=1 2220w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But growth must pay for growth but it does not seem that the City Commissioners understand that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what is going to happen? Millage rate increase? A sales-tax hike that must be approved in a referendum? Increasing impact fees, or changing how they are used? A bond? Better coordination with regional organizations to get more bang for leveraged dollars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Commissioners consider a congested traffic grid muddled by at least $200 million in unfunded road projects, costly jurisdictional difficulties, a state law that allows little discretion, and the pressing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2437],"class_list":["post-20422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-will-the-city-leaders-find-the-right-path-to-fix-the-roads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}