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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I also supported having only OUR golf carts on the trails here. Thus I supported the wall, and that ended well too.
I think that the Morses have excellent legal advice and they also play their cards close to their vest.
What is keeping a large tour bus group or a tour guide from advertising....join The Villages on their ride to....such and so???
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Because it is a privately chartered bus. By contract, the operator cannot invite others to join in. This would be akin to you having a block party for neighbors only and someone then puts an ad in the paper inviting all Villagers to attend, but worse since the club could then sue the bus company.
As to things for profit in the rec centers, I'd say most of the instructors there consider what they are doing at least a job, if not a business. Very few volunteer. They get paid by participants. Ditto entertainers at club meetings such as DJs. Ditto Life-Long Learning Classes. Why would this be okay if making a profit is the issue for the private charters?
Don't know about you, but the building of the wall and the way it was done has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouth, including mine. It would not have ended well had not Villagers protested and called in the media. Sorry, can't give the developer any credit on this one.
Do you remember the stink caused when it was announced that support groups meeting at rec centers would allow non-Villagers to attend? The Morses totally supported this one. So did I. Several here didn't. So far as I know, there has not been a single incident involving the non-Villagers. It was a kind, right thing to do gesture on the part of groups, the rec centers and the developer. To me, allowing charter buses to pick up Villages residents at rec centers is the right thing to do.