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Originally Posted by drcar
As posted in the online paper!
"This development on 153.6 acres by WholeLife Properties of Dallas would include 1,298 residential dwelling units, including apartments and townhouses, 174,240 square feet of institutional use and 544,500 square feet of retail space."
I do have to laugh, people opposed the villages going in here because we have enough, homes, traffic and people. According to the online paper, " Last spring, The Villages proposed building more than 700 homes and support facilities on the Trailwinds property." Now we are looking at " This development on 153.6 acres by WholeLife Properties of Dallas would include 1,298 residential dwelling units, including apartments and townhouses" and " A revised plan for the separate Trailwinds development to the east on 131.5 acres calls for 296 homes". HMMMMMM, apartments and townhouses!!!!! Anyone want to guess what this will bring? At least with the villages, we knew we were getting 55 and over residents, but now?????
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Every time an issue of the continuing build out of The villages is presented I remind folks that as The Villages grow so will the surrounding communities.
What all this means is more crowding and despite what some folks believe I am doubtful that most folks welcome the crowding nor did they consider it would get this crowded when they purchased their property? Not in my back yard is a legitimate gripe . So is complaining about a three tier water fee schedule to encourage conservation when all it does is allow developers o develop more. I cannot recall the actual title of the bill but a bill proposed in 2010 to allow homeowners say in managed/controlled development was defeated because developers and real estate people had the bigger stick and so now homeowners are stuck.
So now we will rightly have more people from the surrounding communities streaming onto road restaurants town squares, more congestion , ore lines and wait time, more crime. This is not a complaint but an observation and a fact of life and yes I know it is all not bad news but then that depends on whose ox is being gored