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Originally Posted by champion6
For quite a few years, TV has been building homes in unincorporated Sumter County. The property had been purchased years ago (I don't know how many years). They have just kept rolling along, a.k.a "A Building Machine" (my words). New villages have been created, as well as town centers.
Now for the new "attention getters."
For the first time in quite a while, TV wants to purchase a sizable parcel. It is located in Lake County and within Fruitland Park. This location requires public notices and public meetings and public hearings which we newer residents have not witnessed before. And so you are witnessing the "excitement" that follows these meetings.
The reality is TV is adding a couple more villages with pools, a rec center, and a golf course. Same old, same old. BUT it is making headlines because of these meetings.
Here is a preliminary site plan for the property. It indicates there will be123 Premiers, 1647 Designers and 202 Villas. It seems to show (my guess) 2 Neighborhood pools, 1 Village rec center, and 1 Executive golf course.
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This is not just "same old, same old". The Villages is a master planned community. When all that property was purchased years ago, they had the ability to develop a master plan for the entire concept. This included traffic engineering, water/sewer planning, golf course and other amenity planning. As long as the project was constrained by the original size and scope, the only thing necessary, if the original planning was done well (and it seems to have been), is minor tweeks to the plan. This is the advantage that master planned communities have over normal communities and their suburban sprawl.
Now, however, they have been deviating from the original plan. First by additions to rooftops (as houses are referred to by the CDD) in lands previously designated as commercial as well as relatively minor new land acquisitions and now by a major land acquisition. Since these additions were not part of the original plan, it's anyone's guess as to how well they will be integrated into the existing plan, but clearly those who laid out the original plan many years ago, did not include all these new houses in their overall plan. Will it look well planned 10 years from now? Or, will it resemble suburban sprawl?