This morning's Daily Sun showed more development planned south of the Turnpike and confirms growth forecast nearly a year ago after the
Landstone purchase.
Also solved is the mystery of the dead end road at the south end of the Village of Monarch Grove circled at the bottom of the 2nd picture. The Villages doesn't do dead end without a purpose. Purpose revealed!
In the first picture the area north of CR470 is the newly announced purchase of 5600 acres. The area south of CR470 is another 6500 acres once known as the Landstone development that never happened. The 20 year plan continues to unfold before our eyes.
This purchase also put to rest the idea that the Bailey bridge over the Turnpike will be a part of the golf cart paths in the future. With both sides are now owned it's destined to happen.
With the addition of these 12000 acres to the fold, the number of Community Development Districts will continue to grow. Limited to 2500 acres by law, this announcement adds at least 5 more CDDs to the mix. Add in the West Lake properties, other properties owned and known to be part of future plans, and some logical geographical divisions and we are easily north of 20 residential CDDs in the not to distant future. (Fenney, McClure, Marsh Bend, Linden, DeLuna, and Monarch Grove are CDD-12, Bradford and north of DeLuna are CDD-13).
I'm sure that there are a lot of plans in the works that will be announced in the future - golf courses, rec centers, commercial districts, town square(s) - to support the growth.
Does anybody think they'll acquire the land between the Landstone property and the Turnpike south of CR470? That would fill the gap to the West Lake property. I foresee the CR470 bridge having golf cart lanes... Why don't they want a Villages exit at CR468, they don't need it, they have 2 already - CR470 and US301!
The Master Planners are hard at work here in The Villages!