{"id":45237,"date":"2024-05-09T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=45237"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:56:43","slug":"city-of-lakeland-fire-impact-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/city-of-lakeland-fire-impact-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Lakeland Fire Impact Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GROWTH MUST PAY FOR GROWTH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of Lakeland does collect Fire Impact Fees. Currently, of the $1.7 million that is currently available, $900k is earmarked for the remaining debt service on the Fire Training Center Expansion Project.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The remaining amount will be used towards the land purchase for Station 8. Going forward Fire Impact Fees collected will be used towards debt service for Fire Station 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a side note, the City is required by statute to spend impact fees within 7 years of collection. Given that restriction, the City is not allowed to set aside collections for future expansion beyond 7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland has spent roughly $900,000 of coronavirus relief funds under the American Rescue Plan Act to purchase a new fire engine for Station 8. It was ordered nearly a year ago, and the city anticipates delivery in the next few months. But by the time Fire Station 8 opens the Fire Engine will be over two years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Fire Impact Fee Schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAND USE<\/strong><\/td> UNIT OF MEASURE<\/strong><\/td>CURRENT FEE<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
RESIDENTIAL:<\/strong>     <\/td><\/tr>
Single-Family Detached<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$398<\/td><\/tr>
Multi-Family<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$281<\/td><\/tr>
Mobile Home<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$200<\/td><\/tr>
Hotel\/Motel<\/td>Room<\/td>$214<\/td><\/tr>
Congregate Care Facility<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$290<\/td><\/tr>
Nursing Home\/Assisted Living Facility (ALF)<\/td>Bed<\/td>$324<\/td><\/tr>
NON-RESIDENTIAL:<\/strong>     <\/td><\/tr>
Industrial<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$87<\/td><\/tr>
Office<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$253<\/td><\/tr>
Retail\/Commercial<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$430<\/td><\/tr>
Recreational<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$513<\/td><\/tr>
Institutional<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$267<\/td><\/tr>
Hospital<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$368<\/td><\/tr>
Funeral Home<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$193<\/td><\/tr>
Mini-Warehouse<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$12<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The current fees are not enough to cover future fire protection for the City of Lakeland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GROWTH MUST PAY FOR GROWTH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question – Why are Law Enforcement Impact Fees higher than Fire Impact Fees????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Law Enforcement Impact Fee Schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAND USE<\/strong><\/td>UNIT OF MEASURE<\/strong><\/td>CURRENT FEE<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
RESIDENTIAL:<\/strong>     <\/td><\/tr>
Single-Family Detached<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$580<\/td><\/tr>
Multi-Family<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$409<\/td><\/tr>
Mobile Home<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$292<\/td><\/tr>
Hotel\/Motel<\/td>Room<\/td>$312<\/td><\/tr>
Congregate Care Facility<\/td>Dwelling Unit<\/td>$422<\/td><\/tr>
Nursing Home\/Assisted Living Facility (ALF)<\/td>Bed<\/td>$473<\/td><\/tr>
NON-RESIDENTIAL:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Industrial<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$127<\/td><\/tr>
Office<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$369<\/td><\/tr>
Retail\/Commercial<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$627<\/td><\/tr>
Recreational<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$748<\/td><\/tr>
Institutional<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$389<\/td><\/tr>
Hospital<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$536<\/td><\/tr>
Funeral Home<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$282<\/td><\/tr>
Mini-Warehouse<\/td>1,000 sq. ft.<\/td>$17<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GROWTH MUST PAY FOR GROWTH The City of Lakeland does collect Fire Impact Fees. Currently, of the $1.7 million that is currently available, $900k is earmarked for the remaining debt… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45238,"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":"12","_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":[8451],"class_list":["post-45237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-city-of-lakeland-fire-impact-fees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237","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=45237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}