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Originally Posted by John41
Thank you for an excellent post and attending the meeting. When the new Sumter commissioners take office the remaining puppets will be removed from office. The residents have won battles against the developer before. My opinion is that no squares are planned south of Rt 44, so the developer will turn all the existing squares into apartments to avoid sales competition in the new areas south of Rt 44. Also no money will be spent to maintain the clubhouses above Rt 44 so they can be demolished for apartments. There is a lot more being hidden from residents in my opinion.
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My house backs onto a four square mile section in the middle of The Villages where currently there are retention ponds and a few houses with stables and pasture. I’m wondering if that huge piece of land will be turned into apartments and condos for 10,000 people.
Back about five or six years ago, the state university where I taught proposed to build a fancy new classroom and office building for the English, History, and Math departments. There were a number of meetings between the administration and the faculty. The faculty argued about endless things, such as how big their offices would be, what color their desks would be, how big the classrooms would be. Finally the administration threw up their hands in disgust and canceled the project and told us we could stay where we are. Actually, that was fine with me—I didn’t think the building we had was all that bad. Complaining about new apartments doesn’t mean that if we won this fight, we would get a nice new clubhouse and restaurant and pool. We could just be left with rubble, or a parking lot.