[janmcn]

Originally Posted by Mack184

In the past I have read something and I do not remember if it was here at TOTV or in a newspaper or where..but the jist of it was that Lake county government was not anywhere near as welcoming to Morse Industries as Sumter county has been, and they were not very interested in "accomodating" the growth of TV.

There's also been some speculation that The St John's River Water Management, which controls Lake County, put the brakes on over developing by The Villages.

Whatever happened between TV and Lake County happened before I arrived in 2000, and no homes have been built there since.

[2BNTV]

A very wise man told me once, If you start playing "The What If" game, then you automatically lost.

I use to say that to my late sister as she was very good at conjuring of impossible scenarios. I usually concuded with, "what if an atomic bomb was dropped in NYC, then we wouldn't wouldn't have to worry about "what if" anymore.That stopped her what iffing in front of me. Obsiously she turned into a hypocondriac who imagine all kinds of ailments..

BTW - You know what the hypocondriac had chiseled on their tombstone, "I told you a was sick".

[manaboutown]

On one of my stays in TV I visited Terra Vista in the Crystal River area of Citrus county. A company salesman there told me the availability of fresh water was becoming an issue in central Florida, that Citrus county had plenty and that the growth of TV could or would be affected by its need for more and more water. He also told me the developers of TV had been trying to obtain water from Citrus county, that they had been turned down, that lawsuits had resulted and that the courts had so far denied TV access to the Citrus county water.

Now this was all verbal and clearly part of his sales pitch to get me to buy there (where I loved the houses but there was nothing to do and little shopping nearby). Nonetheless, it seems water and other environmental impact issues are more and more problems for future developments just about anywhere these days.