What I meant was that another developer will buy land and they will build. Lots of land for sale around TV.

Or, when (not if) the Morses cease building, the most profitable "public" property (which is, in fact, owned by the single developer) is sold (to various strip mall owners, investors, etc.), fragmenting the long-term goals for The Villages (which is now quite unified: happy residents, money for developer), and public spaces (with little profitable value, e.g. town squares) are transferred back to current residents to manage and maintain (upkeep, insurance, etc.), then taxes and infrastructure fees to current residents climb, and home prices fall. Another realistic possibility.

The biggest future risk I see is if there ever becomes a time where the residents in some governing form become responsible for "managing" the daily goings on of TV.

Like it or not the developer has a goal and manages a consistency that for the most part we all accept. And also for the most part very little we as residents can do or say to sway the direction the developer has set.

When/if the residents take over is when special interests, politics, etc creep into the system thus departing from the overall state of TV. Eventually the goals of managing TV result in changing priorities that depart from the good of the whole.

So let's hope for the involvement of the developer in some fashion continues well into the future.

True, billethkid.

Amen

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The residents have already taken over some of the northern districts, and the mechanism is in place for that to happen all the way down to district #10. The fee/taxing system, and the administrative systems are in place to maintain the quality we now enjoy. All seem to be working fine.. Educate yourselves, folks. Learn about your government.

My answer is that none of us will live long enough to see the "final buildout." Not Gary Morse and not any of us on TOTV.

So true, Obi-wan.

Using the recent flower planting discussion as an example of a worse case scenario involving the residents takeover would go like this:

Changing the flowers three times a year instead of four is more desirable both esthetically and economically.

Changing the flowers twice a year is more economic.

Changing to year round ground cover works.

Mulch only.

Similar progression at our South FL condo. All the islands in the parking lot became gray mulch. The Board even took out the perennials so nothing had to be watered. I was on the Board, but not retired yet. My vote was useless against the cheapskates.

We can only hope.

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Well said BTK. :agree: