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Originally Posted by circletrack

Hello, I lurk often but rarely post.

Several people have mentioned that parts of the cart path are dirt and run through private property. How would you as home and property owners feel if The Villages built a path leading into your front yard, inviting folks to drive right through your grass? They would be trespassing and you would be upset. Yet it seems in this case many are defending the trespassing that had been going on for years.

Yes this was handled terribly. And has been going on for way to long, but it's hard to argue legally against stopping people from driving though private property. There are all kinds of liability issues that could arise.

The police are issuing tickets to people driving through the grass at the front of the private buildings. How different is that from driving through the grass behind?

Just some food for thought. I too am awaiting an explanation. It is certainly deserved.

circletrack - have you read all of the posts? it sounds not. the dirt path under discussion runs thru property which does not belong to the villages. it belongs to an individual who has bent over backwards to insure that the path has remained available to residents of the villages and other communities. as such, travel over the path has been with permission and facilitation of that owner; which in turn negates any aspect of trespass. so too, does it apparently dismiss any concern for liability on the part of the land owner.