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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
I remember reading in the Leesburg paper the reader comments loathing the idea of TV building on the farm annexed by Fruitland Park and being built by TV now.
Readers and councilmen's anger and prejudice was (almost verbatim): "We don't want the vote in our city taken over by a huge new voting bloc of " old (gag) rich (gag) white (super gag) Re______ns (ultra-super gag)." (Don't shoot me. I'm just the messenger, and we know the left-right balance is not that bad.)
But in the end they probably like the millions in increased taxes on former unused agricultural/pasture land, which probably multiplied current city budget/revenues by 10, and schools--a mega expenditure--don't need to be built and funded for over 55 age group.
I think they'll take the tax revenue  …… and housing and economic growth. |
The resentment of The Villages was all on the part of the commissioners who have been screwing up Fruitland Park for decades. They knew that over 80% of Villagers vote and far less than 50% of existing Fruitland Parkers vote.
The same issue exists for the mayor in Wildwood. He comments on building standards being different, but he fails to mention that there has been little or no new buildings in Wildwood in years, other than The Villages.
May be small towns, but its the same old self-interest politics.