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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.
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As has been previously explained the cart path that has been closed is paved, lighted and has been maintained for a long time. I understand that it was created by Harold Schwartz twenty years ago.
So that everyone might have a better understanding of what we are talking about, I am posting this Google Earth view with key landmarks explained.
The wall is at the area named "cart gate". This may be a bit of a misnomer as there is no actual gate. It is simply a paved path for carts, bicycles and pedestrians. If you go through that gate, you come into the medical center parking lots and access roads which have other "gates" to allow safe passage of golf carts. I believe that they also have designated golf cart parking areas. After that, you come to the access road for the under construction assisted living facility. They have also gone out of their way to make their facility golf cart friendly. You follow that roadway to a dirt path that is next to that water retention thingie that you see near where I've marked "dirt road created by assisted living". That dirt road is about 180 yards long and ends up at the road next to Lowe's parking lot. From there on there are no dirt roads until you get to Aldi. All of he businesses are cart friendly and most have cart parking areas. From the Aldi lot which is not shown in the photo there is another dirt path that leads to Wal-Mart. The land that that dirt path is on evidently belongs to the electric company and when the change hands a few months ago the new electric company closed it. They reopened it after a few days of protests and communication.
Sorry, for some reason, if you clicked on the photo I posted, it opened to my personal Photobucket account. I have removed the photo for that reason.