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The above thread title was cut and pasted from the on-line news site. Very interesting!

Apparently the residents of the Villages are starting to take a stand on certain actions that are less than appealing to their marketed retirement plans/dreams.

First the Sumter Commissioner puppets (who voted for a 25% tax increase in lieu of Developer impact fees) got ousted. And now residents are obviously very unhappy that their coveted single family residential neighborhoods might be turned into mixed use neighborhoods, commingled with high density rental apartment complexes. Existing amenity opportunities and transportation infrastructure are becoming inadequate by increased population density. If the family quietly tried to get approval to build a few apartments on the second floor of buildings in already Commercial districts like SS and LSL, they most likely would have slipped through relatively unnoticed. But they opened up a huge can of whoop a$$ with the whole Hacienda Hills thing, and woke a sleeping giant.

Unhappy existing residents are not a good thing when the word gets out and prospective new home buyers sense that the tide is changing in Florida's Formerly Friendliest Hometown.

Does anyone else sense that the good will that Gary Morse built on the family's balance sheet is rapidly running dry???? Stay tuned.