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Lake County School Board Seeks Brake on Shelter Ventures

ORLANDO-Frustrated by overcrowded classrooms and a lack of funds to build new schools, county officials await a consultant's report that could hike impact fees to over $2,000 per home for subdivision developers, comparable to neighboring Orange County amounts.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on November 21, 2002

ORLANDO-Lake County school officials, under pressure to build more new schools to house a surging student population, are considering restricting development of new subdivisions and imposing stiffer impact fees for residential, retail and commercial developers.

Orlando consultants Henderson, Young and Co. are completing recommendations for new impact fees that are expected to infuriate builders and help school construction budgets. The new fee schedule was supposed to kick in on Oct. 1, the start of local government’s fiscal year.

But the consultants couldn’t obtain the needed demographics on Lake County households to finish their report, school board staffers tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.

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