{"id":394297,"date":"2026-09-09T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394297\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:00:15","slug":"park-user-fees-rental-rates-to-be-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394297\/","title":{"rendered":"Park user fees, rental rates to be discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Festival Park User Fees<\/a><\/p>\n

Festival Park Rental Fee Policy updated 09012026<\/a><\/p>\n

Cape Coral City Council is expected to decide the city\u2019s direction for establishing tiers, user fees and a tax subsidy for Festival Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Rental rates for city facilities be discussed include the artificial turf fields, natural turf fields, and the amphitheater, as well as establishing a subsidy level for each of the three rates.<\/p>\n

The presentation will highlight cost recovery considerations \u2013 the life cycle replacement expense and full cost annual expense.<\/p>\n

The full annual cost for the artificial turf field is $454,860 with sustainable annual hours of 3,200; $359,581 for natural turf field with sustainable annual hours of 1,200 and $130,714 for the amphitheater with sustainable annual hours of 500.<\/p>\n

The full cost per hour is $142 for the artificial turf field, $300 for the natural turf field, and $261 for the amphitheater.<\/p>\n

The proposed field use hourly rental fees are broken down by five tiers.<\/p>\n

The first tier is $21 for artificial turf and $45 for natural turf for community benefit; $57 for artificial turf and $120 for natural turf for the second tier of government\/institutional; $107 for artificial turf and $225 for natural turf for the third tier of individual\/community; $163 for artificial turf, and $345 for natural turf for the fourth tier of mostly individual and $213 for artificial turf and $450 for natural turf for the fifth tier of highly individual\/commercial.<\/p>\n

There are three tiers for the amphitheater rental fees.<\/p>\n

The first-tier government\/institutional is $260 for four hours, $520 for eight hours and $780 for 12 hours; the second tier is $800 for four hours, $1,600 for eight hours and $2,400 for 12 hours for the second tier of community\/individual and the last tier of highly individual\/commercial is $1,305 for four hours, $2,610 for eight hours and $3,915 for 12 hours.<\/p>\n

The remaining topics on the Cape Coral City Council workshop agenda include a property donation policy, update to the financial management policies, citizens input camera view and Heydon Lane replat.<\/p>\n

The workshop will take place at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in City Council chambers, 1015 Cultural Park Blvd. following the South Cape Community Redevelopment Agency meeting at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n

To reach Meghan Bradbury, please email mbradbury@breezenewspapers.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Festival Park User Fees Festival Park Rental Fee Policy updated 09012026 Cape Coral City Council is expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-394297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394297","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=394297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}