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Originally Posted by Bill14564
As it is on Villages property (or property sold by the Villages and surrounded by Villages property) I am surprised the Villages is not providing access to it. They would do this either as an incentive for Walmart to build in that location or to facilitate residents getting to other businesses that are sure to build on the remainder of the Villages land around the Walmart.
Not all Villagers have golf carts and not all those that do have one utilize it for shopping. What you see as a low number of carts I see as 10% - 15% of the customers who might not shop there if there is no golf cart access.
- We shop at Aldi's far less than we shop at Winn-Dixie just across the street
- When we shop at Walmart we take our cart to 466 even though the one out on 441 is closer.
- I now take my business to the Jersey Mike's in Lake Deaton plaza - I can get there by cart
- I really like Culver's but rarely go there since it is not accessible by cart.
- I DOUBT I AM THE ONLY ONE
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On the other hand - if these things were important to you (being able to get to things by golf cart), you probably would've selected a home in an area that already had that kind of access. There are no rules forbidding people from tearing down old homes and building new ones in their place. That happens fairly often here on the Historic side. They take away the single or double-wide, and build a home on a foundation with a real garage, block and stucco construction, etc. It seems every few months there is one just being finished, or one just starting.
I can access the doctors, dentists, hospital, Walmart, Aldi's, Publix, Winn Dixie, the golf cart service shop, full service restaurants, town squares, Wendy's, other fast food joints, Jersey Mike's, Moe's, the post office, the police department, the fire department, department stores, Lowe's, Xfinity and AT&T stores, all within 8 minutes from my house, by golf cart. I can access Culver's, Fresh Market, and everything else on Wedgewood by Southern Trace within 40 minutes by golf cart. I can get to Brownwood and Sawgrass by golf cart (though it's far and I rarely do that).
And anyone living anywhere in-between my house and the furthest distance I've mentioned here, has access to everything in-between.
When you choose an area that doesn't have what you actually WANT, and merely hope to have it built eventually and accessible the way you want it to be, you take your chances that it'll never happen. Your complaint would be to yourself, for not choosing otherwise.