[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by EdV

Well Gracie, I’ve been conspicuously absent on this issue because I’m 600 miles away in the Smoky Mountains and on the way up here last month, I took a bad fall and I’m recuperating from a fractured knee cap. I just caught this thread and spent a couple of hours reading through it so I could post intelligently without repeating anything that’s been said. But my tongue is sore from biting it.

1. This was a shock to me and I never saw it coming either.
2. The golf cart access path sits right on the county line between Sumter and Lake counties.
3. The property on the west side is listed as owned by “Villages Tri-County Medical Center Inc.” which is a nonprofit organization not affiliated in any way with Gary Morse or his companies as far as I can tell.
4. The property on the east side (on Paradises Dr.) is listed as owned by “Villages of Lake Sumter Inc.” which is of course Morse’s company.
5. From the photographs taken by BKCunningham and others, it’s impossible to say which property the wall is on. Six inches either way makes it one or the other.
6. Using aerial photographs from Google Earth, I can tell you that in 1999 the path through there appears to be just a dirt path. But in the 2004 photograph, Morse had paved his side with a divider and the Tri County Medical side installed a golf cart sized roundabout with pavers.
7. Sometime on or after the 2004 upgrade, access gates were installed there to limit access to card carrying TV residents but the town of Lady Lake soon after made them remove the gates. The reason being that you cannot discriminate access to a public road (Paradise Dr.)

These last two points are extremely important if a legal battle ensues. Both property owners made significant roadway improvements on or before 2004 with intent to provide safe paved golf cart access through that area. So that useage has been in place for over a decade.

Now, has anyone contacted the building permit departments at Lake and Sumter counties to determine for sure to whom the permit for the wall was issued?

Hi Ed,

People on here feel that you know your stuff when it comes to these kind of issues and I have no reason to believe that what you say is not correct. But, I have looked up some addresses and I don't understand how the wall could be constructed on the county line. Several of the doc in that medical center are listed at 1501 Hwy 41 LADY LAKE, Lowe's is listed as being in Lady Lake as is Aldi
I supposed that it's possible that the county line takes some kind of weird turn or twist but the first business that is listed as being in Summerfield is Wal_Mart.