[Ooper]

Originally Posted by janmcn

The developer is so adament that Fruitland Park residents will not be able to access The Villages that he is willing to walk away from the proposed future development if the town council doesn't agree.
Villages to City of Fruitland Park officials: No Golf Cart Access For Your Citizens - **************: The Villages, Lady Lake, Wildwood, Fruitland Park

I agree! If they don't pay our amenities, they they shouldn't have access w/golf carts!

[justjim]

Street Legal golf carts can get into TV now---on 35 mph roads. Maybe 466A will be made 35 mph? A lot to do about nothing we have any control of IMHO.

[rubicon]

Well well now we have a broader view of the Berlin Wall situation and what the Developer was attempting was to control golf cart traffic which would inure to the benefit of residents who pay to maintain these trails.

I noticed that there at the Belvedere Gate that gates are installed requiring golf cart drivers to have a card to enter.

I hope the Developer fortifies every entrance to prevent access by non residents entering by golf carts.

[gomoho]

Could someone educate me as to how someone in Fruitland Park would access TV without going on 466A?

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by mrdarcy

Access to TV from Fruitland Park should be card controlled similar to the agreement made with Lady Lady officials regarding access to Paradise Dr--the resolution reached following the recent Concrete Wall controversy. Yes, I know Lady Lake officials conceded the Paradise controlled access agreement was originally negotiated decades ago in 1998, but they resolved last month to honor that agreement and that entry point will be controlled. I'm glad TV representatives have declared the issue a deal-breaker. If the proposed expansion is denied because of it, it can be left to local historians to decide which party "broke the deal".

Nope!

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by gomoho

Could someone educate me as to how someone in Fruitland Park would access TV without going on 466A?

Into the proposed Village of Fruitland Park.

[keithwand]

Gotta side with the developer. Neither Fruitland Park nor Wildwood is a retirement community so no acces by golf cart same as it is now.
What's the problem?

[graciegirl]

There are those that post on here that no matter WHAT would be done by the developer, those posters would be against it. We know who they are, those of us who have been on the forum for awhile. New folks must be confused.

I just don't understand. How can ANYONE be so against someone they don't know, never met, know nothing about personally. The developer has been more than good at creating this absolutely one of a kind place and in so doing risked his own money time and time again, and now he is hugely rich. There is nothing wrong with that. If Sumter Inc. as an entity thinks we need to keep foreign golf carts out, than I'd trust their judgment. The people who run this place are doing a pretty good job if you ask me.

Some folks attitudes are those you would expect from people who are very young.

[buckscounty]

We don't want fruitland park to have cart access. Sorry

[buckscounty]

Hooray to the developer, God Bless him, we love the Villages and he made it possible.

[SpicyCajunPugs]

Too much jealousy again...but you have to pay the piper to play in the Villages. That is a fact. But you get your money's worth

[DianeM]

If you live here you have full access. If you don't you don't have access. Seems as simple as that to me.

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by mrsyarbie

I agree with the developer, this is retirement community and I have no interest in going to Fruitland Park to use their facilites, by the way what is there besides the post office?? Sorry bleeding hearts, I want to keep TV as wonderfu as it is now, we have plenty of people and traffic on the pathways with the population that we have now.. we dont need more carts ...

I agree ... this is obviously the right thing to do from the perspective of The Villages, and the residents' collective interests.. It may sound "harsh" etc, and some may not like it ... but it will screw things up if wide open access is granted.

[N44125]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Well well now we have a broader view of the Berlin Wall situation and what the Developer was attempting was to control golf cart traffic which would inure to the benefit of residents who pay to maintain these trails.

I noticed that there at the Belvedere Gate that gates are installed requiring golf cart drivers to have a card to enter.

I hope the Developer fortifies every entrance to prevent access by non residents entering by golf carts.

Belvedere golf cart gate does not require an access card. You can use your card or just push the green button....no voice that says 'Welcome to The Villages'...the gate then just opens.

[gomoho]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Into the proposed Village of Fruitland Park.

But isn't there a big open field between Fruitland Park Residents and where the new Village is proposed?