Massive fees for new city water/sewer hookups!

mobile home university
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Just looking for some advice here. We own a park in a small town in North FL, located outside city limits in the county. Currently permitted for 14 spots but we just had a new engineered site plan approved for 32 spots. It’s all on old well and septics but we are planning on connecting to the city water/sewer which runs along the front of the park at the highway. Initially we were told the two hookups and master meters would cost approximately $5k, but the new city manager is trying to enforce installing meters at every single trailer pad which boosts the cost to about $264,000! Insane!

I understand if this was a subdivision with individual homes but a mobile home park? Is this normal now?

any advice or direction appreciated. We are goin to talk to the city council at the next meeting and try to work something out.

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Can you just hook up to the sewer and keep your well water system?

My guess is that you need city sewer so you can use the excess land for spaces rather than septic expansion, etc.

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The county approved the site plan to include the utility plan calling for master metering. But the city manages the water/sewer and they want to charge meter and impact fees for every space instead of single meters at the road. We have to complete the infrastructure improvements before adding more homes