I believe the fee is eminently reasonable, and the discussion around this was that some of the increased fee is going to come back in the form of lower property taxes. The reason I think the fee is so reasonable is that as a snowbird, I just paid our fire tax here in CT, and it was $361 for a volunteer fire department. I understand that is not relevant to the fee in Florida, but it is a matter of context for some who are paying much higher fees outside of the Villages. A volunteer fire department doesn't have paid employees and still it's more than the fee in The Villages.
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