well-said

Friday in Orlando is a nightmare as is all of south Florida.

The Rolling Acres Apartments have income restrictions and everything is fine there. They also have sections just for the over 55 age group. There is also a small apartment complex on 466 and Rolling Acres with income restrictions no problems there. So not sure what problems you see coming here. The Villages community employs thousands of younger people where would you like them to live?

I see a flaw in your statement. I suspect that many of the people moving into the nearby apartments work here in TV. By being close to their jobs, they will drive fewer miles each day.

I also see them visiting our local restaurants on a year-round basis, which should give them and other businesses a more consistent source of income. This will enable businesses that can’t handle the annual snowbird cycle to survive.

Finally someone talking sense

Amen

Building 30,000 new homes doesn’t bring on traffic problems???

So The Villages over building....just approved an other 30,000 homes that’s not the problem but the apartment that will home 800 people is.......really......really
Trust me it’s not apartment is not going to be your traffic problem it’s The Villages wanting 2 hundred thousand people living here by the end of the day

Thank you....great statement

Where do you think the people worried about this should move to?

my thoughts,

looks like a lot of folks that work in TV for low wages will have an opportunity to shorten their commute and enjoy moving into new digs

people that earn less than six figures matter too....

let's not forget, they are the ones that tend bar, work in professional offices, work retail, mow your lawn and wait on your table in The Villages

apartments
 

Its always said that the apartments are needed for the workers in the Villages, Perhaps so but why are they not being built where the workers of the Villages need them, south of 44?

clueless ??
 

Name names

News flash !! The workers NORTH of 44 also need a decent place to live. The immediate need is exactly where they are going. As more business opens south, they may need some as well.

Just because people have low incomes doesnt make them border line criminals. They are harder workers trying to make a living with minimum wage jobs. Theyre no different than people with money who own a house or 2 in the villages except they are working their butts off to survive

They are being built where there is demand. The demand is still low south of 44, but it will grow and then the apartments will come. Not everyone who works in the villages does construction. I suspect construction workers are the minority.

And they are usually nicer people and more honest than some of these entitled rags. Good post.

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Most Villagers are Restricted Income residents.


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A great many people in The Villages have incomes restricted to Social Security, and that may be $1,000 to $2,500 a month. It depends on how much they earned while working. That means plenty are living below the poverty line. They might qualify for these apartments. The reason they can afford to live here is that they had enough equity to pay cash for their home in The Villages, and they may have moved here years ago. They can’t really afford to rent one of the new apartments in The Villages on $1,000 a month.

I would doubt gate closure as that would effect emergency access by fire and emt departments.

That's what the buffalo were saying when they saw Gary Morse across the field with his surveyor?!

Looks like somebody has seen the light. It's about the increase in traffic and NOT who is living in this new development.

Water problems
 

Water problems, I’ve been here 14 years about six years ago I believe they were concerned about not having enough water for the villages. We were put on water restriction. What the heck is going on now. I guess there’s no water problem. About 30,000 homes in Fenney are being built. Along with apartments and condos

thank you for pointing that out. some of the comments are heartless towards poor or lower skilled workers

how much traffic can upset your lifestyle? do you use a golf cart? during which hours do you travel most? is it worth leaving the villages, & how does someone guarantee the amount of traffic on any road @ any given time?
i have so many more important things to worry about, traffic is last on the list.

Yes and let’s issue them ID papers
 

so neighborhood watch could stop them . We could put leather jackets on the watch people and when they stop those people they would say , Your Papers Please

In case you anyon had been asleep the last month
 

the villages is building a very big family area south of 44’including a school

We were put on restrictions as was the rest
 

of the state and the whole southeast because of a serious drought and it was only outside water for homes ,

Double Ditto. The traffic in TV at its worst isn’t anywhere near as bad as what I experienced in the Detroit suburbs everyday traveling to and from work.

High density development going on every where in and near TV. Hoping for the best, but never saw anything get better once it got popular and bigger.

Nobody asks a wallflower to dance.

Same story everywhere in the world. People move and then want to bar the door behind them, decrying subsequent population growth and development.

There are trade-offs in life, right? I once moved from San Diego to a small town in North Dakota for a job, and "traffic" was maybe four cars during rush hour. Did that peaceful pace make up for the things I missed in California?

The Villages is an optimal mix of trade-offs for us.

$800/month for a ONE BEDROOM APT ain't so cheap for "low income" housing. LOL, I'd love to know what some folks around here consider a "low income."

There is another one behind Lowes on 441. It is beautiful. I saw the model and it is VERY nice. If I were working around here I would enjoy living there.

We're dealing with mostly sand and swamp. Eventually, the whole state will sink into the ocean. And hey maybe Ocala will become beach-front property.

AT 75 TO 85 feet above sea level it take few centuries.

Can’t do gate closure The Villages roads are all public roads

They're not ALL public roads (most are, a small number are not).
But these new apartments going up west of Morse are not in the Villages. They're a mile away from the Villages, being built by someone else.

Ooop! Of course, you meant "new apartments going up east of Morse."