See Florida Statue 316.2125 - Operation of Golf Carts Within A Retirement Community, for specifics on that issue. As for the various individual and municipal financial (tax) advantages of being a "retirement community", I am not near smart enough to know all those. I do know they are allowed to (but don't have to) double certain property tax exceptions such as the Homestead Exemption, for retirees. Since it takes a developer some degree of "work" to qualify as a 55+ community, maybe ask the developer or local government why they bother.
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