Brevard County Florida camping fee changes

Bandaid wrote:
The result was a raising of the basic camping fees by 200% now being $48. per day for a water and electric site. If you want full hookups, or a water view, you pay a premium fee on top of the daily fee!

THEY DIDN'T RAISE THE BASIC CAMPING FEE BY 200%!

First of all, you say the new fee is $48. But there is no campground on their website that charges $48. There are three campgrounds, and the most expensive is Long Point, at $44 for a water/electric site. Not $48.

Here's an archived version of their website showing fees at Long Point in June of 2022:
Long Point rates in June 2022

A water/electric site was $28. Raising it to $44 is a 57% increase, not a 200% increase as you claim.

And the big increase is only for nonresidents. You, as a resident, will now pay $29.67 for a water/electric site at Long Point, up a whopping 6%.

johnhicks wrote:
Turns out Brevard County residents aren't participating in the rate increases, $27/day for them and $46/day for everyone else.

No, according to the link that you provided, for Long Point it's $29.67/day for residents, and $44/day for nonresidents. At Manatee Hammock, it's $27.55/day for residents (which is close to your "$27") but $41/day for nonresidents (which isn't close to your "$46"). So I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers.

I'm wondering if the OP just "heard" that rates were going up 200% and raced here to complain, and didn't actually verify anything. Particularly because the new pricing structure greatly favors county residents--residents' camping fees at Long Point went up by 6% while fees for non-residents went up by 57% (again, nowhere near 200%). County residents pay the same year-round, while non-residents pay more in-season than out-of-season. County residents can book up to 13 months in advance, while non-residents can book up to 12 months in advance. (I don't like that reservations might have to be made a year in advance, but at least there's a period where residents have the ability to book and non-residents don't.)

Bandaid wrote:
If I am going to have to pay a premium to get a full hookup site, I might as well go to a private campground and have more amenities!

For a full hookup site at Long Point, you'll add $2 to your resident rate of $29.67, for a total of $31.67. I've stayed at only half a dozen or so RV parks in Florida, and none in Brevard County, but on my latest swing through the state, I was consistently seeing rates of about $70 in December. So $31.67 looks like a real deal for a full hookup site.

Bandaid wrote:
Also, the length of stay has been dropped from 169 days to 90 days.

Actually, it was 168 days, not 169. See rule #6 here:
Long Point campground rules in June 2022

But what objection would a county resident have to a limit of 90 days per reservation? If I were a resident wanting to camp locally, I'd welcome that because it wouldn't affect me at all but might make it less attractive for long-term people (although 90 days probably will still work for a lot of snowbirds).