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Originally Posted by Peachie
Steve, this is where the bullying starts... because I want adjacent communities to respect The Villages borders as I respect the Stonecrest borders, you state I have a burr in my saddle, you're a lowly outsider and probably the next charge from another poster will be I don't like Stonecresters and so forth. That allows the posters to dodge the real question... do the cart/multimodal paths belong to The Villages? Should The Villages real estate agents promote our community as having golf cart access to Stonecrest?
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I think all need to understand that the Villages based on how the developer was allowed to finance the development made the Villages basically no different then any other municipality with the exception they were not granted police powers. Now all the roads and infrastructure is no different then the streets and paths that may exist in any other city. Ocala if they decided to put Golf Cart paths next to busy streets to allow access would not be allowed to restrict that access to only Ocala residents because Ocala residents paid the taxes to construct those paths. However I believe their is a solution. I may be wrong but I believe The Villages would have the authority to sell Golf Cart Access stickers. The sale of these stickers would not be allowed to be restricted to residents only but would provide a revenue stream for the maintenance of those paths.
Here's the other thing to keep in mind. All this talk about outside access is distracting everyone from the real issue. Someone is trying to close that path. Follow the money if you want the answers to this problem.