That's silly. Florida is full of old codgers like us and they have the same needs as we do. There is nothing 'unique' about us.

Yeah but there’s not 140,000 of them packed in like sardines. :1rotfl:

average age of florida is 42, we are almost double that :22yikes: ............unique.

I admit that I didn’t understand how the new fire district would work or how much it would cost.

Judging from the comments here (many people say it was a great idea and others say it was a horrible idea) I am amazed that no one else appears to understand it either.

The proponents of the new district should have been able to explain it clearly - why we needed it, how it would work, and how much it would cost.

The fact that they failed to do so is probably why it lost.

Don’t be enthusiastic too soon. The last time there was a landslide vote to elect two county commissioners, wresting control of the county board in favor of residents, the Developer figured out a way to get the two indicted for short phone calls prior to board meetings, third degree felonies. Then their good friend Governor DeSantis replaced the two duely elected officials with Developer-friendly replacements. One of the indicted commissioners plea-bargained and the other is awaiting trial.

The main campaign plank of the two anti-Developer candidates was to repeal the 25% increase in Sumter County property taxes for use in building the roads and infrastructure necessary for the Developer to continue to build further south in The Villages. Prior to that, the Developer had paid for infrastructure expansion himself.

The Developer almost always gets what they want. It’s only a matter of time. And they definitely play hard ball.

If the developer used to pay for the infrastructure expansion, what caused the change?

And from experience, developers never pay for the infrastructure - they just pass it on to the new homeowners as part of the overall cost of the project.