Originally Posted by Guest

dddave

I am sure (T-in-C) the Royal Family of The Villages, in their apparent desire to create and control the money-making, de facto and de jure quasi-governmental entities called CDD's, were motivated exclusively to create a senior-citizen paradise. I am just as sure they never realized how much money they were saving by using CDD’s to avoid many of the expensive infrastructures true local governments were required, by state law, to have in place.

The current storm is a case in point. I just checked our three local counties web-sites. There are 28 hurricane certified shelters in the tri-county area. Not one is inside the boundary of The Villages. The rec centers can’t be used as shelters because they are made of wood. And the “independent” CDD’s have no right to build one unless the Royal Family approves (which they would not).

Yet, I would bet the 2-foot thick walls of code-restrictionless Morse Castle in the heart of The Villages would stop a tornado. It probably also has; a roof tied to the ground; a gas generator with a gas tank capable of keeping every circuit in the house working for at least a month; a food storage area that would rival Publix; and a cistern or water filter that could keep the fountains of Rome running for years. I would suspect this applies to the horse barns as well.

This last paragraph is an aside. If the Royal Family made themselves public few people would write suppositionally as I just did, but if they want to be secretive about everything, I should be allowed to speculate to my heart’s content. To me it’s very unnerving to live under a dictator you never see (Big Brother?). I think it’s a shame too - I bet the Morse’s are a very nice family, and I very would like to meet them personally to thank them for creating such a beautiful place, but if you never see them having fun in this beautiful place, you must ask yourself why? Wouldn’t it be great to see one or all of them line-