[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Best to stick to posting about things that you aren’t absolutely clueless about. How many times every week do you try to fit swimming laps into your schedule? Are you aware which sports pools have open swim and lap swimming opportunities each day of the week and at what time, how many lanes are available in each pool, when the pools are more likely to be crowded, which sport pools are closed for maintenance and how that will effect the nearby pools, how early you need to show up before an organized water activity ends to attempt to get a swim lane, or what the etiquette is for sharing lanes? I swim laps 6 days a week on average and often all seven days and have swam multiple times in every sports pools north of 44. I have easily swam laps well over 100 times at La Hacienda, Laurel Manor, Lake Miona, and Mulberry and just crossed the 150 mile mark for 2022. Your post doesn’t reflect reality, and I know what I am talking about regarding the topic. I live by the sports pool schedules published in the Recreation News section of the Daily Sun every Thursday.

Nothing in that thesis refuted a single thing I said... 90 more people out of 10's of thousands won't change a damn thing... If anything, you seem to be having no problem getting your laps in...

But your "humble brag" was impressive...

[dewilson58]

There was a small group of posters who warned & worried against the apartments/condos next to Brownwood. Over crowding, no parking, can't get into feed faces.

These units have been a nice addition.
More peeps to support business owners.

ZERO complaints now.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

There was a small group of posters who warned & worried against the apartments/condos next to Brownwood. Over crowding, no parking, can't get into feed faces.

These units have been a nice addition.
More peeps to support business owners.

ZERO complaints now.

The usual whiners……they just move on to a new topic.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

There was a small group of posters who warned & worried against the apartments/condos next to Brownwood. Over crowding, no parking, can't get into feed faces.

These units have been a nice addition.
More peeps to support business owners.

ZERO complaints now.

But, but, but... They're gonna' take up all of the lap pool lanes!!!

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

There was a small group of posters who warned & worried against the apartments/condos next to Brownwood. Over crowding, no parking, can't get into feed faces.

These units have been a nice addition.
More peeps to support business owners.

ZERO complaints now.

So far so good but over the next few years will that be the start of lots of new apartment buildings around here totally changing this place?

Have no idea and only the developer knows and he is not exactly telling us is he?

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

So far so good but over the next few years will that be the start of lots of new apartment buildings around here totally changing this place?

Have no idea and only the developer knows and he is not exactly telling us is he?

The "lots of new apartment buildings" aren't the Developers buildings, although it is nice to blame them for everything.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

So far so good but over the next few years will that be the start of lots of new apartment buildings around here totally changing this place?

Have no idea and only the developer knows and he is not exactly telling us is he?

Don’t know how long you been around, but the Developer hasn’t ever told any long term plans. Why should they?

[Holpat39]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Does the developer ever have public meetings where residents can ask questions about the future of The Villages?

It would be nice to have quarterly meetings where these issues could be addressed.

When did the city you came from allow home owners to question the decisions they made. I'm quite sure you were not invited to sit in on their meetings.

[vintageogauge]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

So far so good but over the next few years will that be the start of lots of new apartment buildings around here totally changing this place?

Have no idea and only the developer knows and he is not exactly telling us is he?

I would be more concerned about all of the family housing units (which are definitely needed here) both single family, attached, and apartments. Thousands of homes are in the works many of which have begun construction and except for the 8,000 units TV is building at 470 & 301 most of the others are independent developers. These family units will bring in thousands of residents of all ages and these are the units that will create a parking nightmare for those that frequent the squares, all of them, not just Spanish Springs. The 45 apartments will be a drop in the bucket.

[Love2Swim]

Originally Posted by Holpat39

When did the city you came from allow home owners to question the decisions they made. I'm quite sure you were not invited to sit in on their meetings.

The difference is, we voted to elect the city officials to make decisions in our best interest, and if they fail, we can elect different officials. Here we have the benevolent dictator, ie, the Developer who claims to know what's best for the old folks, and if decisions are made which benefit the family, but not the residents so much, we have little recourse.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

The difference is, we voted to elect the city officials to make decisions in our best interest, and if they fail, we can elect different officials. Here we have the benevolent dictator, ie, the Developer who claims to know what's best for the old folks, and if decisions are made which benefit the family, but not the residents so much, we have little recourse.

Recourse……….the highway.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

The difference is, we voted to elect the city officials to make decisions in our best interest, and if they fail, we can elect different officials. Here we have the benevolent dictator, ie, the Developer who claims to know what's best for the old folks, and if decisions are made which benefit the family, but not the residents so much, we have little recourse.

Very true but if the developer does things that hurt the residents the resulting word of mouth will not help him sell more homes

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

The difference is, we voted to elect the city officials to make decisions in our best interest, and if they fail, we can elect different officials. Here we have the benevolent dictator, ie, the Developer who claims to know what's best for the old folks, and if decisions are made which benefit the family, but not the residents so much, we have little recourse.

I would add that if we vote in officials to make decisions in our best interest, but those interests don’t align with a certain very powerful entity, strings will be pulled so that said officials are thrown out of office and replaced with hand picked puppets.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

I would add that if we vote in officials to make decisions in our best interest, but those interests don’t align with a certain very powerful entity, strings will be pulled so that said officials are thrown out of office and replaced with hand picked puppets.

Very true will be a very interesting election for Sumter country residents coming up

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by Holpat39

When did the city you came from allow home owners to question the decisions they made. I'm quite sure you were not invited to sit in on their meetings.

The monthly meetings were always open to the public and the mayor and members of the council would take questions. We could always email or talk to the mayor or his staff.