Most of the power line land in the Villages is owned by the Villages Development company. When they bought the land, the power companies had an existing easement on the corridors where the powerlines are. There are a couple of places in the villages where there are multimodal paths that run through the easement!

I recall a thread from a couple of years ago, where there was a request to add a golf cart path along one of the power lines, and the utility would not allow it.