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Originally Posted by JerryLBell
Golf courses here are, first and foremost, land set aside for water management. If a hurricane comes by and drops a foot of water (as Irma did for us a couple of years ago), the water runs off from the residential areas and into the golf courses and retention ponds. After the water event, water is pumped from the retention ponds and sprayed onto the golf course at a rate that can be absorbed into the ground and end up back down in the aquifer. The fact that they can use that land for golf courses is a side effect and not the primary purposes. And it's a very, very nice side effect for those of us who golf. In the future, when generations to come are not so much into golf, they will still need to set aside that same amount of land for water management. It might not be used for golf courses, but it won't be paved over and turned into houses. My wife and I have often wondered what other uses there could be for such land. The main thing we can think of is for walking paths through nature, kind of like they did for the new Marsh Bend area in the south end of The Villages.
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I don't know if it was a "primary" purpose but I like the logic behind your opinion that it won't be developed with pavement/cement/permanent structures. That makes a lot of sense and if this is just a really awesome guess, but totally wrong, I hope the developers read it and take it seriously. If that's not the intent, it is certainly an excellent idea for future incarnations of the Villages!