The Monroe County Commission has laid the groundwork to set up community taxing districts to pay for expensive neighborhood sea level rise mitigation projects throughout the unincorporated areas of the Florida Keys. The commission on Wednesday did not set an exact fee or location for each district but only approved the ability to levy a property tax âfor road elevation and improvement projects to be constructed due to the sea level rise and flood mitigation program and authorizing the creation of assessment areas in the future,â the ordinance read. Several Key Largo residents voiced concerns about how much the county may levy in the future to pay for such projects. Stillwright Point residents are concerned that they would have to pay as much $5,000 a year for 30 years to fund road elevation and flooding projects in their neighborhood, as some estimates have the projects costing $21 million.