New Restricted Income Apts on 466
 

Just outside The Villages is a new apartment complex being built. It is about one mile east of Morse Blvd on 466. What are your thoughts on this?

Income Restricted Apts Just Outside THE VILLAGES - YouTube

A builder bought the property and decided what he wanted to build. Apartments are needed in the are for many of the workers in The Villages.

What's the problem?

Low income does not equate to criminal or trash. Rotten low-life people are criminals and trash.

:bigbow:

As long as they are primarily law abiding citizens all is good

Apartments and condos are being built all around TV as well as more RV parks, not everyone can afford to buy a home and there is a demand for apartment living due to all of the construction nearby and more commercial development.

A nice place for the people who do all the jobs here that we take for granted , for senior citizens and the disabled , for vets and single mothers with children who are working in fast food places, a decent clean safe place to live , what could be wrong with that ??!

Most people are.....only the dregs get the attention and spotlight.

This makes sense with all the new development going on.

Welcome to Florida.


So far, The Villages has been very lucky.

Not sure why "clueless" applies. Is your choice not to build anything that provides housing options for people, raise taxes to expand the network, stop commercial growth so they don't need employees? Not sure what you think they should do to meet your perception of "clue".

A lot of us I am sure started as low income, or even at some points, no income, at the early stages of our lives.
The majority never ended up as criminals, or leaches on society.

At it's worse, the traffic around here is nothing compared to other places (Atlanta, Dallas, etc.). Inconvenient, yes. Huge problem, not in my opinion.

TAMPA is awful.

Tampa Bay traffic ranks No. 11 — even worse than Boston — in TomTom report

Was wondering who they were building the housing for

In our village in UK, we had another car come through the other day
That's two this week.
Traffic is becoming a nightmare!:icon_wink:

About a year ago, I helped someone who was looking for an affordable, decent apartment. They are sorely needed in this area.

OK. Now will you give us your thoughts?

We live north of 466 off Chula Vista. I was shocked when I saw how many huge apt buildings are going up there. People are talking about trying to shut down the La Zamora gate for fear all those people will use the red button to cut through TV on Chula Vista (which they probably will). If that gate is closed we would have to go miles out of our way to get to shopping/restaurants on 466 between Buena Vista and 301 so I am not a happy camper. I get that the land owner can do whatever he wants (assuming he can get zoning approval) but it will definitely change things around here and NOT for the better for those of us who live here.

kathy

This keeps up you will need either a stop light or a traffic light.

Or a rotary but those two cars might keep hitting each other:bigbow:

Haven’t they already started building? Debating over land that is sold, and structures are in progress seems pointless. Plus our roads are public, one can’t stop cars from using them.

What people are talking about shutting down La Zamora gate? Let me answer that for you, rumor mongers that have no credible information about it other than their imagination.

We are lobbying for a bypass!

I think the county government needs to create a "dead zone" for 1,000 meter around The Villages. Raze the current dwellings and businesses and plant grass. Like a DMZ, nobody allowed to enter or live there so the sensibilities of the entitled elite living in the TV bubble aren't offended. Can't have "undesirables" living too close to our sanctuary. It's OK that they cut our grass, clean our homes, serve our food at the restaurants and haul our garbage, just don't live too close to us.

I believe you have a Lady Lake Commissioner living among you in the Village of LaReynalda - Ruth Kussard. Am sure she can answer any concerns you have,

Yup
 

Unfortunately you are correct. The things people say are absolutely awful. They think they are living in an elite gated community and they are not!

I believe you will find that it is these people:
https://www.**************.com/2020/...sta-headaches/

I believe Mr Richards lives on the historic side and Mrs Kussard lives in LaReynalda...real folks not rumors.

Linkie no workie and I have a brain so I don't do Facebook. Post something I can read. Just because the mayor, what mayor, suggested sealing the gate means nothing. What was the context of the conversation? Was the unfounded fear of high traffic put to him and he suggested, rather stupidly, that maybe the gate could be closed.
These two individual you cited, what are their qualifications to comment on the situation? Just because they are residents means nothing.

People may be talking about it because they would like to see that, but I doubt that the county would allow that entrance to be blocked off.

Well said.

Will someone please come up with a virus cure so that minds are occupied, and therefore people have no need to look for something to get excited about.

It's a public road, they can't close it off to non residents.

Two things. If there is open land near a popular place (such as the Villages), you have to expect that it is going to be developed. Such was the case here. The developers of this land laid out a well designed series of buildings that complement the site and the need well. They leaped through all the regulatory hoops (without any assistance from the Morse family who were averse to this development (as noted in the fact that the Morse family would not allow the developers of this little parcel to tap into the water supply).

This will be a good addition to our developing area.

By the way, if people wanted the land to remain undeveloped, they could have just bought it themselves!

You make it card access only like it used to be

Nope
 

The rtoads are owned by the county. Everyone must have access.

When 466 becomes an exit for I75 traffic will become a nightmare. Saw that happen in Port St. Lucie when it connected to I95. Another ding on quality of life
in The Villages. Income limited housing is needed but traffic studies should be the governing factor.

Governments only react, they do not act on a foreseeable problem before it becomes serious.

I think it was "letters to the editor" of that other site that must not be named, suggesting either getting rid of the gate altogether or removing the red button. I have been told that neither is going to happen. Hope that is the case.

I'm not sitting up nights worrying about it, though. Too many more pressing issues in the world right now!

k.

Yep..I lived over in St Cloud, FL before moving here. St Cloud is in middle of orlando and kississimee. I lived like 30 min from the parks. Talk about traffic!! Our main roads had 6 lanes for each side. This is good here.

If the gates or red button was removed no golf cart could cross over to cart path