Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 724050)

i'd contact the leesburg daily commercial - more likely to get coverage from an outside interest!

Daily Commercial
212 E. Main St.
Leesburg, FL 34748

Frequently called numbers:
MAIN NUMBER 352-365-8200
FAX 352-365-1951

News Desk
352-365-8208

news@dailycommercial.com

Sandy Lenoir, The Villages/Sumter 352.365.8248 sandylenoir@dailycommercial.com

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 (Post 724072)

Everyone has always paid amenities fees. It was how the amenities fees were being used. Here: The Villages, FL - Class Action Settlement Notice - www.thevillagesfl.us

http://www.ccfj.net/CDDVillages$40milllawsuit.html

But to the point of the thread. My understanding from talking to a representative of the HOA is that the HOA and the POA are both involved. He asked me to give them a couple of days to sort through things before I circulate petitions throughout the area asking for signatures of residents asking that the wall be taken down.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 724077)

if things rise to the level of a petition, please give consideration to how we snowbirds who are not in our villages nest at this time can participate.

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 724083)

What is the HOA?

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 724083)

What is the HOA?

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 (Post 724087)

About Us & FAQ's

VHA Association By-Laws

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Originally Posted by janmcn (Post 724081)

It might be time to call our friend Lauren Ritchie at the Orlando Sentinel and see if we can get her up here to do an indepth investigation.

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 (Post 724084)

I have thought about that too, njbchbum. I would ask you to write a short note which would include your name, address, phone number a a statement if you'd like, and send it to media email. You can do it through a PM here if you'd like which goes to my email. I would certainly include your information with a petition if it gets to that point. Thank you my dear.

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 (Post 724084)

I have thought about that too, njbchbum. I would ask you to write a short note which would include your name, address, phone number a a statement if you'd like, and send it to media email. You can do it through a PM here if you'd like which goes to my email. I would certainly include your information with a petition if it gets to that point. Thank you my dear.

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 724091)

Why not set up an online petition:
iPetitions: Start a free online petition / Create a petition

Originally Posted by Steve9930 (Post 724068)

You can cross 441/27 there at the Hospital with a street legal Golf Cart. The Florida Law allows you to cross any highway as long as the intersecting road speed limit is posted at 35 MPH or lower. Or any other location you can get too.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 724106)

You also must have a driver's license in order to operate a street legal LSV on the roads. One problem here is many people in the area that for one reason or another do not have a license.

Originally Posted by memason (Post 723892)

I'm sure this is very disappointing for the folks that depend upon that route to shop, etc.

However, the route you have been taking to Lowes, Walmart and Aldi's has been going across private property; not Villages property and certainly not a cart path. In other words, you have been trespassing all this time. The property owners have graciously allowed you to drive across their property. Seems to me, they have reconsidered and closed access.

I'm not unsympathetic, but this is just business and nothing personal....

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 723874)

None of this yet is ascertained as fact. It is all conjecture. But I see how a lot of people feel about other issues. I understand your surprise and frustration but what can now be done to make this a little easier?

None of us know FOR SURE why the path is closed but it is. Dr. Boogie, perhaps you will now drive your wife back and forth to work? Maybe car pools can be arranged. Maybe someone can drive others for a small fee? Redwitch, is there any other way, other than that path, any cut throughs beyond and behind? Perhaps when non drivers need to go to Lowes they can post on your neighborhood email? Also the same for visits to doctors? What percentage of people in those three villages do most think don't drive. Perhaps some church could make it an outreach project? With a few members of a church transporting people to and from maybe twice a week? Perhaps we TOTV'rs could arrange some kind of volunteer car transportation? Remember just that ONE area has been closed, those three older villages still have golf cart access to the rest of the entire villages property.