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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Unlike the large scale high density apartment complex planned at HH, I have no problem with the Katie Belles plan. Katie Belles is an existing building in a commercial area and converting the building to 10 apartment units will have no negative effect on existing single family residential homeowners. I doubt anyone going to Spanish Springs will notice any difference between an empty Katie Belles versus the same building with 10 apartment units. The Katie Belles conversion is in no way the "bait and switch" that is being pulled on the homeowners in the HH area. There is still the fact that the area already has bad traffic congestion and over utilized amenities, but 10 or so apartments won't make any noticeable difference. As I have stated in other threads, I don't have a problem with apartments, as long as they are put in the right place so they do not negatively effect single family homeowners who had no reasonable cause to think they would ever be plopped down in an inappropriate area.
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I hope that this post proves to be wrong. So far apartments have not been tested in The Villages and I really can't see this as a "bait and switch" but rather the use of an area that had lost purpose due to a lot of real factors. I see the real factors as; the folks who rent the buildings made for restaurants fail to make a success of said restaurants and that may be that the restauranteurs are sub par or that the area is aging and don't go out to eat as much or that the building was SO noisy it wasn't pleasant even for people like me who can turn my device down to eat there.
I am hoping that the apartments are not going to cause problems in the same way people who live here generally do not cause problems with higher crime and lack of care of their surroundings. I hope that the parking lot is not crowded. The one on 466 never appears to be when we drive by the back on our way to Bob Evans. (When we did, not eating out now)
I hope that the people who rent the apartments will find a good fit to a less active lifestyle and a good place to eat at the restaurant. (I did read there would be a restaurant, didn't I?)
I hope I will not find anything to disagree with Tophcfa about in the future as it has been in the past. We usually saw eye to eye.