{"id":178441,"date":"2026-03-04T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178441\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:47:07","slug":"hillsborough-county-takes-first-steps-to-restrict-lawn-watering-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178441\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County takes first steps to restrict lawn watering year-round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Hillsborough County Commission took a step Wednesday toward making once-a-week watering permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners passed a motion to explore limiting lawn watering to once a week year-round.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes would apply only to homes using potable water for their lawns, not those using reclaimed water. The move aims to conserve drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments would then go back before the commissioners. No timeline was provided for when that could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Hillsborough County Commission took a step Wednesday toward making once-a-week watering permanent. Commissioners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-178441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}