A Fort Pierce commissioner is raising questions about city-owned property being taxed, when he says he thinks it should be tax-exempt.<\/p>\n
This comes after City Commissioner Michael Broderick said they paid thousands in taxes for a city-owned lot at South Ocean Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Broderick said under Florida statute, it should be tax-exempt because it’s city property generating no revenue.<\/p>\n
The property is owned by the Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency, and the St. Lucie County Appraiser website said it has a taxable value of nearly $745,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re not supposed to be paying it,\u201d said Broderick. \u201cThis is now vacant property used as a city parking lot, so it should be exempt from property taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broderick gave WPTV\u2019s Tyler Hatfield the property\u2019s tax bill, showing the city paid over $18,000 in property taxes for the lot in 2025.<\/p>\n
He said he wants to know if there\u2019s other properties out there.<\/p>\n
“We have a mistake like this for $18,000, what leads me to believe that there’s no other properties like this that could take that number and run it up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars,\u201d said Broderick.<\/p>\n
Broderick said he’d like to see a full review of city-owned real estate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think an internal investigation or internal audit of this one line item in the city budget is warranted,\u201d said Broderick.<\/p>\n
WPTV reached out to the city, which said the Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency maintains the same tax exemption rights as the city. WPTV is still working to get a response form the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Pierce commissioner is raising questions about city-owned property being taxed, when he says he thinks it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-258475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258475","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=258475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}