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Davenport, Fla., new-home fees could top $15,000.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004
By Keith W. Kohn, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 12--DAVENPORT, Fla. -- Newcomers to this growing community could face sticker shock when they decide to buy a new home in coming years.
And that's not counting the actual price of the home.
It would be impact-fee shock because a consultant's report proposes a series of fees that, if enacted at the maximum level of the proposal, would sap home buyers of $15,787 when including fees already approved by Polk County.
More than $11,000 would go to the city under the plan proposed by the Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan engineering firm.
City Council members late Monday agreed to impose impact fees for items such as cultural facilities and...
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