{"id":36150,"date":"2025-11-06T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36150\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:27:06","slug":"florida-mayor-wants-tolls-for-tourists-to-rebuild-hurricane-damage-report-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36150\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mayor wants tolls for tourists to rebuild hurricane damage: report \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida mayor wants to tax tourists to help rebuild damage from hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2024\/10\/10\/hurricane-milton-to-slam-florida-tonight-as-devastating-category-4-storm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2024\/09\/26\/hurricane-helene-strengthens-targets-florida-with-catastrophic-wind-surge-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Petrila, St. Pete Beach\u2019s mayor, proposed tolls at the north, central, and southern access points to the barrier island, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/st-pete-beach-mayor-proposes-tolls-for-tourists-at-all-access-points\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report from WFLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Petrila said the city needs about $200 million to shore up the infrastructure back to a \u201cgood functioning position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Money from the plan would fix seawalls, stormwater systems, sewer pipes and more.<\/p>\n<p>Business owners don\u2019t agree with the move, believing it could cause a loss of tourism-related profits.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/st-pete-beach-mayor-proposes-tolls-for-tourists-at-all-access-points\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wfla.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida mayor wants to tax tourists to help rebuild damage from hurricanes Milton and Helene. Adrian Petrila,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[558,29,944,114,115,109,202,204,203,199,201,200,1316,221],"class_list":["post-36150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-business","tag-florida-news","tag-hurricanes","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tourism","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150","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=36150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}