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I have read all 16 pages. While this does not affect me it certainly is a major disruption to the lives and expectations of those who depended on the gate. What is agreed is that with little or no local notification on a Saturday morning the path was closed. The wall that was erected matches the wall used by the Villages and was placed on property owned by the Villages, if it is in Lake Co. or by the Villages Health care system if it is in Sumter Co. Lake Co reports there is no permit for the wall. Sumter Co website shows none for its side (property D01-L100). The owner of the under construction assisted living facility says he has nothing to do with it. A landowner, Mr. Brown, with interest in land previously traversed by the path also denies any role in the wall. Neither of those parties would have had any right to build the wall even had they wished for it.
Some have questioned why would TV cut off access to its own urgent care facility? Because the only way to effectively block traffic was at the gate location as to build a wall completely around the urgent care location is impractical.
Now for speculation....
If you want to decrease the value of the land of people who are your opposition, if you want the businesses to whom they lease land to be unhappy, if perhaps you have a long term interest in acquiring that land at a discounted price then this gate makes sense. A lot of sense.
If, as it appears, there was no building permit issued, if in fact it was needed, we all know that neither Lake Co nor Sumter Co would reject the application. They might make them take the wall down, get the permit, then they can put the wall up. I don't know what public input there is in the granting of a building permit for a fence on private property but both counties are "pro-development"

Looking carefully at the land, it seems that to the west of the homesite there is a very narrow strip of land which in in Lake Co, 3452399. It appears the fence in the rear of all the yards, the fence which is matched by the new piece, is on land owned by...
VILLAGE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT 1419 PARADISE DR LADY LAKE FL 32159 3201 WEDGEWOOD LN
THE VILLAGES, FL 32162 although the property card does not show any fence construction on any of its land