Think before you buy. The noise is not that bad at all.

The Northern population part of the Villages is willing to make a ONE-TIME payment for these earplugs to be handed out to the Southern Villagers.
but', Next time (if any), look and listen before you buy!!!

Because there are too many things to think about when we buy a house.

We get sidetracked by the little things like the color the tile or the bathroom fixtures and forget the main thing is location.

We played the new executive course in Richmond and had the same experience. We liked the course, with the nice shots across the water hazards and the tricky mounds and swales in front of the greens, but the noise from the turnpike was terrible.

And they were building homes right next to the golf course.

I think they are petitioning the wrong entity. Need to petition the state.

One thing that I am surprised nobody mentioned - The houses near the turnpike were priced LESS for a home than the same model blocks away. I believe all the reason people have given played a part in the decision, but I think price was also a big draw! Maybe they should take the money they saved and pool it to build their wall. I know I do not want to contribute as I did not get the turnpike discount when I bought my home during this time period!

Stop, Look, and Listen before you buy. A petition after the fact is worthless.

There are villages down here where you cannot hear turnpike noise. We live in Fenney and I've never heard it, Hammock of Fenney is even further from it as are the villages that are going to be built west of 501 down toward 470 and beyond. I find it very quiet and peaceful in our area of the south. The homes that were/are built near the turnpike were sold at greatly reduced prices because of the noise and as someone else noted there are a lot of people that the noise doesn't bother.

In DeSoto. If I have my windows open at night, and wake up around 2:00 am, I hear it. Don't notice it during the day.

So my solution is to keep my windows closed at night. I looked at places closer to the turnpike and within sight of power lines. If that was all I could have gotten, I would have passed. Same for homes near Warm Springs/Morse and now 301.

Location, location, location. It's the only thing you can't change.

It's emotional is my "guess", people tend to "see" ONLY the positive aspects of something when in the thralls of positive excitement. Some other examples are personal friends of ours who, in the excitement of the many positives of The Villages, purchased a villa right behind the Villages high school. While they did realize a school means traffic, buses, etc. they readily admit it never occurred to them what sports games, blazing lights, bands, band practices, roaring crowds, etc. would mean. We've met others who never realized that the trains near Oxford would be as audible as they are in some villages. When people ask us about what to consider when purchasing, we just tell them to SLOW DOWN, don't "jump" too fast, investigate what being near certain features might mean. Another example, some people might welcome being next door to a rec center, for some would be like having their own pool, but for some who did not "think" about what the sound of early morning pickle ball games could be, it can turn out to be a nightmare ! Glass half empty, glass half full !

I heard that the Developer hired David Copperfield to "disappear" the highway, during Open Houses.

As someone else mentioned, everyone who bought near significant highway noise, got a "discount". They seem have forgotten that aspect of their purchase.

As I'm sure you know, Route 301 is being changed so it will bypass Coleman and go much closer to the Hammock at Fenney.

Good news for Coleman.

Nah, probably not.

With the lottery system we were told, "There is no guarantee you'll get a house- Ever". And there is only a window of a couple of hours to say, "Yes" or "No" when you get the call telling you you are #1 on the lottery (beating up to 20 others who were in the lottery for the same house). So if you are 2,000 mile away- like we are when the phone call comes: 1) You feel REALLY lucky that you have gone from "Maybe Never" to "We have a house". There is no time to fly down, so you say, "YES". To make it even more difficult you can only be in 1 lottery for 1 house at a time. I hope this gives people an understanding of why people are desperate to get any house that is offered- and worry about moving, or making a petition later.

Not such good news for Fenney residents…