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Originally Posted by barebones1191
America’s Friendliest City Just Became Unfriendly to its Neighbors! In a recent newspaper article regarding the “Berlin Wall” VHA President Gottschalk was quoted as saying “nonresidents had unfettered access, allowing them to travel in and out of our community and utilize our facilities paid for and maintained by Village residents.” I want to know what facilities he is talking about. I am unaware of any. If he is talking about the entertainment in the squares, nonresidents do help pay for those venues by spending their money in the Villages at restaurants, and other businesses. That can be the only thing he’s talking about. Walling off your neighbors will not stop your neighbors from visiting the Villages. It will only stop them from using their golf car to access the squares and the businesses. They can still use their automobiles to travel on public roads built with taxpayer dollars and adding to more congestion within the Villages. What a tradeoff is that? However, it could stop nonresidents from spending their money in the Villages and hurting all the businesses that need all the help they can get. Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.
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We are a municipality. We function differently than others granted but we have a beginning and an end geographically and borders. There are those who come on this forum with scathing comments about the fact we AREN'T really a gated community and to ME...those folks make way too much of
that.
What has now happened is that there was a gate closed and now due to hue and cry it is opened, kind of a strange form of democracy in this CDD form of government, but the population was listened to. We have so much time on our hands that we are now picking at scabs.
I think that since most of us represent the older population of this country we should just go on....try to forget the unpleasantness and keep on living life.
There is a very real possibility that in 20 years, we won't give a hoot about all this....maybe in two months.
Enough already as they say on the East Coast....and Least said, soonest mended as they say in Ohio.
Let's quit fightin. It is resolved.