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Originally Posted by blueash
The population of TV is now at 100,000 residents in the winter. There really are more as some rentals have more than 2 per home and many residents here have guests any given week. So perhaps we peak at 110,000 (wild guess?). Nonetheless, if on any given day 25% of the residents of Stonecrest and 25% of the residents of Fruitland additionally came, we might go from 110,000 people here to 114,000 people here, a MASSIVE increase in our traffic of 3% lousy percent. They would use public highways spend money inside this community which we all support. However some are opposed because the developer built the multimodal paths and now via tax-free bonds which we pay back as amenity fees and home bonds someone else "THEM" might derive a small benefit. This has IMO nothing to do with overcrowding as no one is going to notice a 3% increase in traffic so please skip that argument. Would you be happy if the POA at Stonecrest offered to pay into the maintenance cost for the paths? Now it wouldn't be fair for them to asked to pay for any paths other than the ones they are likely to use. Keep in mind that via their taxes they already pay for the streets. It would seem to be easy to set up a system where interested persons from Stonecrest could obtain a gate card and as we know the cards are already tracked, their POA would get a bill for each time a card is used. Everyone happy with that? Stonecrest would also pick up the cost of establishing and maintaining the hardware and software needed.
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Blueash, I think that is tunnel vision.
First: 4,000 additional carts from outside the community on our multimodal trails is a LOT.
Second: if outlying communities are able to petition the counties to force The Villages to open their fences to the general public, you have, in essence, killed the vitality and uniqueness of The Villages. Grab a map and study the areas adjacent or accessible by the building of a cart path to The Villages. You are not talking 4,000 carts.
From my understanding, there are homes for sale in The Villages. If one desires the features of The Villages, buy in. And if you think having golf cart access to everything The Villages has to offer is a "small benefit", then why all the complaining? Get in your car and drive in.