I'm not a complainer or a whiner, and I am a firm believer in personal freedom, capitalism and the greatness of this United States of America. I also love living in The Villages and would not want to live anywhere else. I have never said that the developer does not have the right to make money. But I will say this. In almost any other place in this great USA, if you want to build a nearly 300 unit apartment complex in a residential area, you would be required to perform several studies before approval. One is an environmental impact study, and another would be a traffic study. I live just up the street from the proposed site, and must travel daily in my golf cart on Morse Blvd. (my mail station is the one in front of the former country club building). I am also a daily bicycle rider who avoids Morse Blvd. at all times. I don't think it's complaining to tell you that I believe traveling by golf cart or bicycle on Morse Blvd. is already one of the most risky things you can do in The Villages. There have been accidents resulting in fatalities and injuries in both golf carts and bicycles on this street. I want the "powers that be" to require the developer to perform a traffic study before final approval of the proposed construction, and for them to make that study available to the public. And I don't think that's too much to ask. I believe such a study would show that Morse Blvd. is woefully inadequate to add this many new residents, and would recommend widening it with the addition of multimode paths and tunnels. Which frankly is what you have just about everywhere else in The Villages.
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