Originally Posted by mulligan (Post 724662)

Look around at 100,000 + people living in a fairly nice environment. Several hundred successful businesses providing jobs for thousands. Home sales holding steady or rising when the rest of the country is struggling. Looks fairly sound to me.

Originally Posted by Applepie (Post 724582)

I live south of 466 however, I am concerned about the "wall". I have what I think might be a soluation to the problem. The 3 groups which the wall affects are- TV, especially the historic side, Harbor Chase, and Spruce Creek. Our golf cart trails are not public streets. They are owned by the developer and the residents of TV. They are not like our streets where any one may travel (we are not a gated community). Why not install a gate like at Hickory Head Hammock. The gate could only be triggered by our gate cards. There would be no button to push. ONLY villages residents would have the card. This would keep the people from Harbor Chase and Spruce Creek out. I know people will say I am being snobby by not letting Spruce Creekers in, However they do not pay for the upkeep of the trails, we do. Our trails are getting crowded as TV gets bigger. Maybe it's time to limit access to other communities. The people from the outside are still welcome to dine and shop only they must use public roads not our private golf card trails.

Originally Posted by chuckinca (Post 724677)

A precast wall section needs 30 days to cure BEFORE installation - - -

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Originally Posted by EdV (Post 724740)

Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it.

But regarding access by Stonecrest residents, let me give you my thoughts. Stonecrest has around 2000 homes, but unlike TV where there are roughly 40,000 golf carts, Stonecrest has at most 500 carts. And of those, not many of them would be using that dusty cart path and the narrow golf cart bridge to Spanish Springs very often. The importance of Stonecrest in the golf cart path into TV has been grossly exaggerated.

Clearly there is something else afoot and time will tell as we sort it out. But I haven’t seen this much excitement on TOTV in quite a while.

Buckle Up as Bettie Davis once said.

Originally Posted by chuckinca (Post 724771)

Stand back of the wall for a few more days in a stiff wind.

Originally Posted by OldManTime (Post 724717)

Scott Wilder of the Villages Community Watch reported that someone had spray painted the new wall blocking the Paradise Drive golf cart path. I informed him that without a victim we could not ascertain if a crime had actually occurred without first speaking to the owner. I asked him if he knew who the owner of the property (wall) was since the Town had not received any permit application for the construction. He informed me that he did not, but he would be calling someone (did not indicate who) to have them contact the Town for any necessary permits.

Just an update on the wall issue (see below). The Property Record Card shows the owner of the lot as The Village of Lake-Sumter, Inc. It is a platted residential lot and no improvements are shown on it. Staff is still looking into this and I will keep you posted.

Just to give you an update on the wall at Paradise. spoke with a Randy Thompson earlier (around lunch time) from AgeWave Solutions. He was inquiring about what would be required to remove the improvements on the property at 1157 Paradise Drive so that a single family residence could be put on the lot, just inquiries at this point. I requested to see the survey that he had so that I could share it with the building official to determine the scope of what would be removed, permits, etc. While it appears that the land upon which the wall was erected is in the Town, when I receive this survey I will be able to confirm that with greater certainty.

To date there are no permits filed for the wall that was constructed, nor have any demolition permits or other permits affiliated with new construction of a residence on the property. I have also verified this morning that Sumter County was not approached about permitting of the wall, nor would they be able to permit it anyway as they felt it was in the Town as well. Sam Wartinbee stated that the district had nothing to do with the wall. The image below shows the property line. The farthest line to the left is western boundary of the VCCDD tract, also being the county boundary. Unable to locate any Lady Lake permits for the existing improvements in the property.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 724770)

and peachie did not answer my question about how/why they think stonecrest residents will soon be able to cross 441/27?

Originally Posted by chuckinca (Post 724783)

I believe peachie is correct concerning Spruce Creek and Stonecrest residents crossing 441/27. There is a new Fla law that allows carts to cross at certain locations with local authority approval. Spruce Creek made an application to Marion Cty early this year to cross 441/27 at the stop light by Sun Trust (in front of their main gate). The roads between the Stonecrest CC walls and 441/27 are owned by Stonecrest Commercial Corp who approved the Spruce Creek Cart access on their property allowing carts to travel to Walmart and points south. Stonecrest property owners voted on the issue and also approved it.

Stonecrest carts will be allowed to cross 441/27 - I don't know where they go from there. Maybe a new path in front of Spruce Creek to get to the stores by CVS and McDonalds; maybe into Spruce Creek to use the existing automatic gate from Spruce Creek into the CVS and McDonalds area.

Marion County hasn't finalized the crossing yet.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 724770)

peachie posted that there was a permit meeting...how did peachie know that? i wonder when and where it was held? it has been posted several times that no permits were issued for instaallation of this wall. hmmmmm......

and peachie did not answer my question about how/why they think stonecrest residents will soon be able to cross 441/27?

who is peachie and where do they get their information?

Originally Posted by gomoho (Post 724782)

Channel 9 coverage was very disappointing - maybe 10 seconds and didn't really cover the issue.

Originally Posted by N44125 (Post 724785)

Channel 9 showed that the wall had been spray painted with graffiti. I was disappointed to hear that / see that. I have always bragged about TV being graffiti free.
Can someone post a picture of the wall with the graffiti?
While I agree that the wall is wrong and handled incorrectly by TV management, I also feel that we don't have to resort to vandalism.