Live in Myers Park

Myers Park is the area the Myers Park Neighborhood Association serves, as Tallahassee-Leon County GIS maps it: 462 acres south of East Lafayette Street between South Monroe Street and East Magnolia Drive. The association filed that line and the County's GIS office draws it, clipped here to the City limits; the City did not draw it, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Myers Park ends. It held 842 residents in 465 housing units in 2020, few for the acreage, with the Capital City Country Club's golf course, Myers Park itself and most of Cascades Park inside. The City's Southside Action Plan line crosses it, putting 489 residents on the Southside and 353 in the core.

It was planned as a suburb at the edge of town. The state's marker says the ground lies near Anhaica, where de Soto wintered in 1539 and 1540, and that much of it was the Houston family's Lakeland Plantation, part of which had belonged to territorial governor William Pope DuVal. The park was established in 1925, and in 1926 Country Club Estates was laid out on curving streets between South Meridian Street and Golf Terrace Drive, which overlooked a nine-hole course. Its developer gave free lots to the first four people who would build a house costing at least $5,000. Woodland Drives followed in the late 1930s, and the City made the area a local historic district in 2001.

The district comes with a review. On the County's layer, 496 residents live inside the Historic Preservation Overlay. There, the Architectural Review Board reviews every change to a building's exterior except routine maintenance, and issues or denies a certificate of appropriateness; the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation administers it and publishes design guidelines for Myers Park. The overlay layer carries no district names and the marker's district is not the association's line, so check the parcel. How long a certificate takes, and what it costs, was not read.

Cascades Park is the other half of the story. The territorial commissioners picked the capital after seeing a waterfall on the St. Augustine Branch here. The City ran a gas plant on the site from 1895 to the late 1950s; contaminated soil closed an early park, and the cleaned-up park of 24 acres opened in 2014 at $30 million with a 3,000-seat amphitheater, built to drain stormwater too. No resident of 2020 lived on a block in a FEMA flood zone, though 4% of the area is in one; the reference point is in zone X on a 2009 panel, and the City is Class 5 in FEMA's rating system, worth 25% off flood insurance in the hazard area. On 10 May 2024 one of two EF2 tornadoes went through Myers and Cascades Parks and the country club. Nobody has mapped the damage street by street.

What a house costs here is not published. Zillow's typical value for the whole 32301 ZIP was $211,953 in August 2026, flat on the year: a ZIP figure, downtown condominiums included, not this guide's. Every parcel pays the 2025 stack of 19.2060 mills. A homestead takes $25,000 off every levy and a second $25,000 off all but the school levies, and Save Our Homes caps the assessment's rise at 3% a year until a sale resets it, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry part of a previous Florida homestead's benefit. A homesteaded house assessed at $200,000 owes about $3,015 a year, $3,841 without the exemption. The utility bill adds stormwater ($11.00), garbage ($28.19) and a fire services fee whose amount no page read prints, raised 9.98% in October 2025 and challenged in a lawsuit filed on 17 November 2025. Florida A&M's campus line is 0.5 km away, and the census tract holding 421 of the residents counts 66.5% of its people in college; the tract holding 353 counts 6.6%.