[Vinny]

What puzzles me is that I have lived in 13 communities and everyone wanted and had a fence. In fact when I have moved into new developments the first thing the local homeowners did was get together and hire a fencing company to get a better price and to agree who pays for the fence section that divides each home. Of course I live in the north but when I lived in Houston it was the same way. In fact, my neighbors got together to put the fence up for me.

Is the fence ban favored by the residents of the Villages or the developer? I can understand the added cost to maintain property that is fenced as someone has to manually use a weed wacker along every fence line. I can also understand having to look at thousands of white vinyl walls but nice white picket fences about 3-4 foot high with flowers around them look very nice. That is what I have now. Keeps my dogs contained and lets me talk to the neihbors when we are outside together.

What has kept us away from 55+ developments has always been the no fence policy. Luckily TV has CYV homes or that would have been a deal breaker for us, invisible fence or not. Invisible fences do not allow for play dates for our dogs as our family all have dogs that they bring with them and I do not think they would like us shocking their pets.

Just curious as to who is the major opponent of fences. I had asked several developers of 55+ homes in NJ and was told that it was an access and maintenance issue. If every other development can figure out how to build and allow for fences I am leery of that answer.