Get Ready!!! More Homes And Apartments Coming!!
 

From The Village- News:

About 4,000 residents and maybe a couple of restaurants will be coming to the vortex of local traffic headaches.

The massive development will consume hundreds of acres of pastureland located between County Road 466, Cherry Lake Road, Lake Ella Road and Rolling Acres Road. In the coming months and years, it will be transformed into 940 single-family homes, 330 multi-family apartment units and 216 town homes. There will also be 120,000-square-feet of commercial development, 3,000-square-feet of general office space and another 15,000-square-feet of medical offices.

Lady Lake officials have approved the development, but some commissioners remain uneasy with the certain traffic and congestion it will bring to an already overwhelmed area.

Does this mean Costco will finally come?:)

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Ta'Ell with Costco, bring me a T.J.'s!

TJ will come right after Costco but would prefer a Lidl.

Development does have its challenges. As far as I know, this area does not have a “Regional” planning commission to look at economic development from a macro regional basis. Soooo what you see is what you got.

well, there goes the neighborhood !

This does not appear to be a TV development. Hopefully it will look better than the development already being built along 466 on the right hand side going north. How much more can they cram in here.:super:

At some point, the planning board, if there is one, will have to take a long hard look at what they allowing to happen. When we came here we used to use 101 to get through to 301 and go north to Ocala. Now 101 is a speed track, it used to a pretty unspoilt rural area, now it is just another development. I realize people will say "well you got yours", and I did, but over building in an area will ruin it. Maybe not right now, but it will become less and less desirable.

They probably said the same thing when you showed up.

No but when we showed up there was a parade saying Yankee go home.

Than someone realized that 75% of the residents were Yankees so the counter parade was started saying Yankees please stay.:bigbow:

Excellent

Boo hoo....lets stop ALL development since I'm here. Get real.

More like, dumb Yankee let me take your money...thank you very much.
We built you a fake town where you can play all day,ride around in your cart. And hear music every night. A utopia

How do you go north on CR 466?

Don't care about TV development plans as long as they keep heading south and not north.

We are very happy we moved here. Nothing in life is perfect but apparently you are not happy here.

Quite the opposite, my point was to the person complaining about the original native floridian and all the Villagers that act like it's ok for development as they arrive...but not for future ones. I find that odd and reflecting an entitled attitude.
But honestly you can't deny that the villages is like a weird utopia, where everyone runs here and there for fun all day,
all day! ....nothing wrong I guess, if you wanna be blind.
Months back a poster said something about there not being anything to do about death put out there....like funeral processions, or ads for funeral homes etc etc(he said it better) and I thought...omg, he's right....now that is scary to remove that part of normalcy from society....I guess it's the Truman show.
Do I like it here....yes
Is it a normal, realistic life...no.

Plenty of other places for that.

Valid point.

Will this be a Villages development or non-Villages? Thanks

When we came here we used to use 101 to get through to 301 and go north to Ocala.

Bogie, I have great respect for you, but I actually did not mention 466 to go north, I mentioned using 101 to 301 and then taking the back roads through horse country into Ocala.

Thanks for the respect. Maybe I was confused or maybe not.....

"Hopefully it will look better than the development already being built along 466 on the right hand side going north."
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Well, that pretty much sums it up although I wouldn't go so far as calling our community a "fake town".

As far as funeral processions......gee, I think you may be right about that. That is a great observation. In all the years I have lived full time in The Villages, I have never seen a funeral procession. I have no answer for that other then maybe more people are being cremated. Does that seem feasible?

OK now I see what happened. But, if you stay on 466, past Rolling Acres intersection, you will run into 441 and a left at this intersection will have you travelling North. It's a woman's logic vs a male logic .... no problem. :coolsmiley:

Don’t know who needs to hear this but the Costco crap is really getting OLD. Give it a rest

Could be...but probably not. I wish I could find that post, it was so poignant.
Just a tease....but are there cemeteries around here???? 🙂

If "normal" (whatever you mean by that) were so great, we wouldn't all be here, would we?
"Normal" may be getting up at 6AM 5 days a week to put food on the table. "Normal" may be commuting 2 hours a day to do it.
To borrow a cliche, "this is the new normal" for those who choose it.

Turn right B/V.

Why would a funeral procession go THRU TV?

Where would they be going? Is there a Funeral home on site? I know of the Churches up near Spanish Springs, but they are right on the edge of TV property. So any "Funeral Procession" would not travel thru TV...

Plus, I would suspect that many already have the funeral arrangements made and their plots purchased in their home town...

We all worked so that we could afford living the life we do here. Nothing at all wrong with that.

You must have liked the hit pieces on the silver screen.

? Please explain

back on topic, maybe a normal suburban development being available to those who want to work in this area as it searches for more workers will be a welcome option for the small business owners here and around TV.

The developers built it for retirees, and they came. But then human services started to lag, and other developers see the opportunity to get on the bandwagon in the areas which the developer has missed or chose not to develop. . . will the education system upgrade be needed next to support the relocation of more families?

Why the heck not? Thousands of Villagers die every year. How come we never see any of this? That's my point...I'm not saying people can't enjoy the riches we have all acquired all these years, that's fine...but dying, losing our friends wakes,funerals -arnt they all part of your current life too. I would think people would want to spend eternity buried in the villages...right? I mean, it makes sense...this is where we are all so happy. I just find it very odd that part of life is erased from Villagers eyes, and minds....
Allot of posters jumped down my throat for saying normal...maybe it should of been realistic? I don't know...I just wish people would try and understand the point a person is trying to make rather than always trying to correct it or tell them they are wrong.

Thousands die every year in TV might be a stretch. Gone are those who spend $20,000 for a funeral. In the last 3 years I have had 17 people die, that I was close to. Only two had a funeral, same family, one showing, then cremated, next day.
My grandparents had those 3 day funerals, with a procession, and grave site mass. But that was in early 70s. Be easier to dig a hole in your backyard, throw in $20,000, then you can always retrieve your money. Grave site, not so much. Times have changed.

But if you need real life, exposure, maybe you can volunteer at the crematorium. Lots of action there, body comes in pick up car, cremated, and either ashes are picked up for celebration of life, or taken home to sit on a shelf for awhile, or they just ship out the box or urn.

Cemeteries are rarely being created, except for military. That is where you can see up to 50 funerals a day, with all the respect of full funeral

I think you may be right, cremation is becoming the choice, especially after covid where no one had a wake, or even a service sometimes.
My original hometown is roch, ny and when I'm up there I do see precessions often,(there's a popular cemetery within 5 miles) and allot of different ethnicities there still want the whole shebang. But I guess that too is a dying profession...lol (sorry- couldn't resist)
Cremation certainly is easier.
Ps...sorry about all your losses.

That's exactly what the two slanted biased recent documentaries about The Villages were trying to portray. They and you are wrong. It is clearly a normal realistic life. Living in a s***hole crime ridden city is not normal.

Why the heck not?

For what reason? Just to drive around?

Funeral precessions typically go from either a funeral home or a Church/Synagogue to the cemetery. Last I checked, there were no Funeral Homes nor cemeteries on TV property, so there would be no reason to have a procession thru TV, unless someone just wanted to show off...

I’ve seen several funeral processions on B/V north of 466.