NO WAIT!!! Some dog might misinterpret that.:cryin2:

Somewhere in The Villages someone who just peed in the swimming pool says, "The nerve of that landscaping guy...using our restroom."

Thank you.

And again, the pool restrooms are not public toilets.

The developers built nice public restrooms that look like beach cabanas beside Lake Sumter at the town square.

Maybe they should build some designated public restrooms at the shopping centers like Colony and Pinellas.

Also, it can be quite unnerving as a female taking a shower at Mulberry, Colony or Laurel Manor sport pools, knowing that any tom, dick and harry stops in off the highways of 42, 466 and 466-A to use the toilets whose doorways are shared with the shower and dressing rooms, and the doors simply push/pull open without latches!!

Is this the first mention of sports pools?

You couldn't pay me to take a shower at the sports pool. I'm not overly concerned about one of the workers barging in for a peek, I'd be more worried about Villager barging in for a quick peek.

As to more public restrooms in the squares or shopping centers, get real. One, it would take up space needed for shops and parking. Two, the distance would be too great for most workers to get to the bathroom, use the toilet and return to the worksite. Three, most employees of lawn maintenance personnel ride in their supervisor's vehicle. I really can't see the supervisor being willing to go out of the scheduled route for a worker to use a toilet when there are easily accessible, legal facilities available.

aminity fees are paid by property owners ,not contractors
 

Port a johns could easily be placed at the many maintenance facilities all over the Villages,the restrooms at the pools are not public,this should have been nipped at bud years ago before it became a common practice!

OK folks, time for a little common sense. There are literally hundreds of pickup trucks with 12' trailers full of lawn equipment in TV every day. Suppose just 8 laborers had need for a toilet at the same time, and they all headed for the public restrooms at LSL. What would traffic look like when all 12 parked there ? What would their fellow workers do when their 10 minute lawnmowing job was completed, and the truck didn't come back for another 1/2 hour ? How many of you would whine about all the extra traffic ? Give these guys a break. They're just trying to make a living. The bathrooms get cleaned daily, and most (I said MOST) pool users don't actually use them anyway.

Right. Pool users mostly pee in the pool, I suspect

Good point.:clap2:

And as for placing portajohns all over the place... Ew.

Be nice. Share.

No big deal. The folks who build our houses aren't a bunch of aliens and perverts. Well maybe a few, but we have our own homegrown ones too.

I say, the most important thing is to keep the adjoining developments from not using our pool toilets. Who KNOWS what they have?

I am JUST kidding about the adjoining developments.

But what difference is it going to make if we allow someone to relieve themselves in our pool restrooms?????

What if, at the end, when we climb the pearly stairs, that the first thing out of St. Peter's mouth is...."ARE YOU THE ONE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SHARE THE POOL JOHN's in THE VILLAGES? Just look over my shoulder, Gary Morse is holding a big party, and you are not invited. You have to spend five years banging on the potty door before you are let into upper paradise."

Think about it.

The developer still owns 95% of the facilities south of CR466, and as the owner, would be the only one to set a policy on the use of these facilities. Once they are turned over to the districts, then residents might have a say in this matter.

AND may that NEVER happen.

Exactly.

I met a couple who moved down here a short while ago from Murrell Inlet SC . He said it was a wonderful place to live when the developer ran the show. Some years later, the residents got control and it went down hill fast. He said the residents who were elected to run the place had thier own personal agenda and there was a lot of infighting.

Yes, it sure seems what goes around comes around. Maybe we should start a thread on dog poop. THAT's never been discussed before.

A lot more information is needed to accept this with a grain of salt.
How many homes, number of board members, their term in office, etc.
You cannot compare that place with TV and make any assumptions.

Well said. :agree:
It's preposterous and unworkable to expect workers to use the bathrooms at LSL or hold their P all day.
Workers would have to start charging more for their time because lengthy P breaks would have to be added into the pricing structure.
And who would be the first to complain about that?
Have a heart.

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I'm trying so hard to understand why people are against workers using the bathrooms. Gosh, it's a bathroom at a pool. I just don't see the big deal here.

If you figure out why, please share it here.
Like you, I don't understand the problem.

The recreation facilities will never be controlled by the residents. They will eventually be turned over to the central CDD which are controlled by the developer.

That card reader is just above the button to open the gate.........by anybody.
I have not heard of any abductions, rapes and murders at the pools. Who you trying to scare?

Boy, the next thing you know, those Stonecresters will be here using our toilets.....

Ok, there has been a lot of discussion on this topic; was it ever defined what the filth was? vinricci, would you care to elaborate? Mud slapped on the bank or floaties left are one thing, but if it is just a sink left a little dirty - come on now.

Ew... Stonecrester cooties! :MOJE_whot:

Just today as I was running errands, I wished there were some convenience stores in TV south of 466. I have seen the circle K's up there, but south of 466 there is NOTHING!!
I was "jonesing" for a Diet Mt Dew, not a restroom.

But if you look at the number of Service providers here, lawn care, electricians, window tint, painting, etc, etc, etc. These guys do have NOWHERE to find a restroom between Brownwood and Lake Sumter Landing. When at the neighborhood pools we have seen guys come in and get water from the fountain and use the restroom. They have always been polite and in and out quickly and quietly.

I certainly do not object to that. We call for repairs and they are always prompt and polite. Why on earth deny them the use of the neighborhood pool restrooms?? I see that as very insensitive!

Oh, and the comment about showering before using the pool. Growing up in Fl. we always used the shower AFTER swimming to get the chlorine off, not BEFORE swimming. That seems to be a practice of our neighbors to the north and seasonal residents. The same with the showers at the beach. Shower AFTER, to get the sand and salt off. No real reason to shower before in either case.

The point is that key card entry can be done affordably. A bypass button to enter without the card is a different matter and doesn't have to be with a card reader.

As for your accusations of "trying to scare" people, are the Sheriff Departments and FL Dept. Of Law Enforcement just whipping up hysteria by publishing the online sex offender registries for us to use?!??!??

https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/of...hoodSearchMain

Better for the workers to use the toilet than go behind the bushes....

That's it. You got it Bay Kid.

There are no classes in The Villages. No one group is better than any other group. What would we do without the contractors, builders and lawn care people? And old white women who are know it alls???? That would be me.


Good Morning EVERYONE. It's another wonderful day in THE VILLAGES!!!!

Didn't see anything about any abductions, rapes and murders at the sports pools.

Hasn't this thread lived long enough?

Just because one has/must use a 'key card' does not insure they are of good character.

The real point, is that the developer is in charge and has chosen to allow workers to use the facilities. It is unfortunate if that troubles your sense of security.

To my knowledge there have been no attacks in restrooms here in the long history of our community. If there were, I am certain the news would spread like wildfire. I would invite any real knowledge of dangerous restroom episodes occurring here. I think we all would.

There are people of questionable intent in this world. They can live anywhere and look common, weird or wonderful.

Allowing a guy who works hard for a living, under company supervision, to use a public bathroom when needed is how it is done here.

It's comforting to know that with all the globe-girdling events going on
(economics/finance, ISIS, ebola, 66% of American's not having faith in their gov't, global warming/cooling, domestic vs international terrorists, the welfare vs warfare State, et al.) we (in The Villages) still have time to devote EIGHT pages of our attention to the truly (sic) important matters of our 'Time. Amazing.

Well it looks like you've been reading it, too.

A key card, for one thing, registers an identity of who's entering. The gate cards register in who's coming thru.

If somebody is entering the restrooms/shower facilities for purposes of harming someone, are they going to log themselves in with their ID card? I don't think so.

While we're on that subject, why do we have resident ID cards to enter the rec centers and to use the golf courses, if it's okay for anybody on the street to stop in and use them?

I still think some "rest stop" areas with PUBLIC bathrooms should be built along the main highways like 466 and 466-A etc. They could be set up like the interstate rest stops, where there is area information and refreshments to buy in addition to restrooms. TV could provide sales/visitor information and point people to the sales centers for a tour etc.

And regarding this: "Allowing a guy who works hard for a living, under company supervision, to use a public bathroom when needed is how it is done here"……..

Who says all workers here are "under company supervision"? There are oodles of lawn workers who work on their own, without "company supervision". That's why there's another thread going right now about the LIABILITIES a homeowner can incur by having uninsured workers getting injured on your property, or if they steal or wreck something!

We bat around a lot of topics on this website, some important, some trivial. :oops:
Please feel free to start a new thread on some of the weighty matters that concern you.

This has gone from concern about some guy using the bathroom at the neighborhood pools, to adding some kind of card reader to the doors of the sports pools, to now building rest stops along 466, 466A, Morse Blvd, Buena Vista Blvd and who knows where else. DUH!

Really? On whose land , built by who, maintained by who?

The developers can build it, just as they built the public restroom building on Lake Sumter, across from the sales center.

Well DUH to you, too. Since you want the pool restrooms open to whoever comes down the street, how about letting the workers or whomever use the bathrooms inside the neighborhood rec center too. Then they could cool off by shooting some pool at the nice pool tables in there, and they could use the kitchen to make some lunch. Or they could use the picnic pavilion outside the rec center to have lunch and then play some shuffleboard.

Why is it okay to have non-residents use the pool bathrooms and track in mud where barefoot swimmers come in to change clothes and use the bathroom? Obviously many of you have never tried changing clothes in there after workers tracked in mud on their work boots, and the floors are absolutely filthy with no clean place to stand barefoot while dressing. I've done it and seen that mess many times and it's not right.