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Originally Posted by jimkerr
We already have Park & Recreation as well as Community watch employees that should be doing this but they don't. There is no need to hire even more people. Even if they did check, people know all they have to do at a pool is jump in and they don't check ID's.
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Originally Posted by bopat
Better controlled access, get them at the entrances, I'm sure technology can solve the problem with AI and pattern recognition. Cameras at the rec center parking lots can help too.
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Perhaps the answer is to move forward on these ideas until the residents cry uncle and ask to have them removed.
I'm picturing Community Watch showing up, blowing a loud coach's whistle, and yelling, "Listen up! Everyone out of the pool and line up for ID checks!"
Maybe extend this idea to speed cameras along all the roads within the Villages. Could check for vehicles exceeding 10mph (Villas), 20mph (golf carts), 30mph (east/west roads), and 35mph (north/south roads).
Maybe extend even further and have DWI checkpoints on all the exits from every square every night and prior to the golf cart paths.
I remember some statistics from the Rec Dept. last year about ID checks and non-Villagers. Apparently, that wasn't enough. So sure, implement frequent, strict, and complete enforcement of the rules for everyone including the regulars who know that "those people" don't belong in their pool. It will cost a bit at first and will destroy the "Florida's Friendliest Hometown" feeling but hey, we won't have those unclean outsiders dirtying up our pool water. Then in two months, after the outcry, we can go back to normal.