| Goldwingnut |
07-08-2023 08:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by mickey100
(Post 2233284)
Agree. Essentially what the developer has done is promise certain amenities, keep mention of those amenities in their advertising literature, then take the amenity away and not change the literature. It's just not ethical. It's obvious that there are not a lot of movie goers on the forum, so many are not concerned. But suppose they took away one of the softball fields, or an archery range, or your favorite golf course? Boy you'd hear about it then. Look what happened at Hacienda. People bought on the golf course, thinking they were near the country club, an the developer just decided to demolish it and build whatever. And how many people bought their homes in an area, to be told that there would be no more expansion? That the Villages would stop at a certain point. Right, yeah. The lesson from all this is that you can't trust the Developer.
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Demonstrated lack of understanding.
1) the movie theaters are NOT amenities, they are privately owned businesses, so they have not taken any amenities away by shuttering these businesses.
2) North of SR44 they could not touch a single amenity, the amenities - ball fields, pickle ball courts, rec centers, pools, executive golf courses, etc. are owned by the local government - the VCCDD or the SLCDD. South of SR44 they could possibly eliminate some amenities but the legal and business impact ramifications of such actions would be huge and not worth any possible cost savings.
3) Hacienda Hills CC was a privately owned business on a privately owned golf course (all the championship courses are privately owned property and are NOT amenities), the CC went out of business because they couldn't make a profit selling ice water and air conditioning while people brought in outside food and drinks.
4) The only time that the growth had the potential to stop and was a factual statement was at SR44 when state law was limiting the growth of the community, it was a legal issue. When the law changed, to the benefit of many thousands of workers in Sumter and surrounding counties, the growth was no longer restrained. As far is any other statements of stopping at a certain point, that was not statements made by the developer (some of their contracted sales staff may be guilty of such statements) and their actions early on support the continued growth that included all areas down to SR44 - withing 30 months of establishing CDD5 (3/19/2002), CDD10 was established (9/24/04) making it obvious that they intended to built to their legal limit at SR44.
The developer does a good job of keeping their intentions and plans hidden. To their dismay in recent years there are several such as myself that have found ways to legally uncover information about their plans and intentions and have made this information public. They've quickly learned that it's a new age and they'll have to work harder to keep their long-term plans out of sight. In my 9+ years of digging for information. watching their every move, and carefully collecting all the informaiton I can, I have never seen anything that was either dishonest or deserving of a loss of trust, the same cannot be said of some of the contracted sales staff. I have seen some actions by the developer that I saw as petty, mean, and thoughtless - FBC church of Leesburg on 466a and Grace Tabernacle Church on Morse Blvd - both not having golf cart accessibility - come quickly to mind - but these actions were not dishonest. |
