[TVMayor]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I do not know where the claims of $1,000,000 to operate gates comes from, heck it may be more or it may be less? I also do not know who has had the opportunity to be privy to police investigative reports to be able to boldly state that zero burglaries solved because of security at the gate?

One in my view has to look at the gates for what they are deterrents and an attempt at control entry and exits and lastly an opportunity on the main gates to be properly greeted and for visitors given direction upon request. The only way to be sure is to have a study conducted but then people would just refute the study anyway.

I could see how non-residents would object but why would residents? However, it would seem residents would welcome the gates because they produce more positives than negatives. there is one exception in my view the gate at Paradise. That should not be a gate but a wall.

If the Paradise gate was a wall, how would people get in and out of The Villages? By using any gate minus one? How did man survive when it was just a hole in the wall? How has life improved with the gate in place?