I'm not saying that this is absolutely the reason, but this is a paragraph taken from the Stonecrest sale website.
Stonecrest Summerfield FL - Stone Crest Florida
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While the area of Summerfield is fairly rural, The Villages provides conveniences and amenities, which are accessible to Stonecrest residents via golf carts. The Villages contains approximately 200 retail stores - including local boutiques, chain stores, and brand favorites - and 60 restaurants.
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Now, if you're a developer trying to sell houses and competitor starts a development next to you and is also trying to sell houses in his development, and he is using the fact that they can get into your development and take advantage of the many features that he doesn't have in his development, why would continue to allow that to go on?
Now, I realize that this has been going on for a long time so the question arises, "Why now?". I don't have an answer for that.
It's also true that Stonecrest residents bring a lot of business into the stores and other businesses in the Villages and that would seem to be an advantage to the Villages. But the developer would have to decide whether or not that additional income to those businesses that he merely rents space to, offsets the fact that people might be buying homes in Stonecrest rather then the Villages because of the golf cart access.
I really don't know if this is the answer, but it is a possibility. It could simply come down to business. Why would the developer of the Villages assist the developer of Stonecrest in selling houses?