For the most part, "the developers" have constructed a wonderful community that runs pretty smoothly, but it still takes people doing the right thing to make it work.
#1) rain and thunder has just spread out over Evans Prairie and for a change most golfers headed to the clubhouse. It had rained hard enough that there was some standing water on the fairways. I watch as 7 carts headed up #8, and only one had the common sense/courtesy to ride in the rough, the rest went right up the middle of the fairway leaving mud tracks in their wake. This is completely under the residents' control. So if you are hitting out of a rut tomorrow, don't blame GCM, it was your fellow Villagers
#2) On the "main side roads" , at least south of 466A, there are cart lanes. Specifically I mean Hillsborough Trail, Pinellas Place, Charlotte Court, Ave Marie Avenue, Hendry Drive and Warnock Road. Many homes back up onto these secondary roads, and the landscapers, for convenience, park their pick-ups with trailers in the middle of the cart lane and even partially into the car lane to more easily access the property. There is no reason not to enter the development and park in front, just as they have to do with the rest of the properties they work on. I guess they think it is OK because they put out orange cones, but in reality they are creating a safety hazard. I think we can count on the landscape workers to do the most convenient thing possible, but if you are one of the homeowners who pay them, there is nothing wrong with pointing out that they are obstructing traffic and to ask them to pull in front.
End of rant, feel free to disagree (If you dare
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