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Originally Posted by OldManTime
The Developer just might bee waiting for the Lady Lake Commission to approve Apartments, not sure, it could be.
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The parcel where the apartments have been proposed, in fact the entire country club and golf courses are in
Sumter County.
The governmental unit that will consider plans, requests for building permits, etc. is the Sumter County Board of Commissioners,
not Lady Lake. You may recall that the former commissioners, controlled by the Developer, approved the additional 150 amenities in a hearing lasting about half an hour. Subsequently, three new commissioners were elected and displaced three that had served for years, consistently approving every proposal made by the Developer.
It was those former commissioners who approved a 25% increase in property taxes on ALL Villages residents to pay for the new roads and infrastructure needed to continue development on the far south end of The Villages.
Three new candidates were elected in the 2020 election after campaigning to rescind that tax increase. All three were elected, displacing the “Developer’s commissioners”, taking control of the five member board, and quickly voted to rescind the tax increase as they had promised.
At this point the source of funding for the construction of roads and infrastructure to support development extending south from current Villages development has not been determined… unless the Developer pays for it, as he has in the past!