[DianeM]

I don't care what municipality I live in. The county name doesn't mean jack. The name of the town does.

[redwitch]

Wildwood has some valid fears. TV has taken over large blocks of Sumter County and it is pretty much what the voters here want regardless of the outlying communities (think the horse racing issue a few years ago). I think Fruitland Park handled it correctly. It may be too late for wildwood to change the voting structure.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Wildwood has some valid fears. TV has taken over large blocks of Sumter County and it is pretty much what the voters here want regardless of the outlying communities (think the horse racing issue a few years ago). I think Fruitland Park handled it correctly. It may be too late for wildwood to change the voting structure.

I believe you are correct. Wildwood voted down district representation recently.

Change comes, and with change comes power shifts.

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

The map in the other publication did not seem to address golf cart access, which was also a discussion item in the article. This will be very interesting as Wildwood appears to want access to the rest of the city of Wildwood, and the villages tends (IMHO) to limit outside access. Then there will be the whole question of how to get golf carts across Powell and or 466a. This is going to be interesting discussion.

Just be glad you don't live in Tamerind Grove. The only golf cart egress into the new section will be a path from there to the TG mail boxes. Eight hundred new homes, possibly 1600 additional golf carts a day traveling the streets of TG.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by janmcn

Just be glad you don't live in Tamerind Grove. The only golf cart egress into the new section will be a path from there to the TG mail boxes. Eight hundred new homes, possibly 1600 additional golf carts a day traveling the streets of TG.

Gloom, doom, bad fortoooon. It COULD work out. It seems the Morse planners are pretty good at what they do. I am betting they will pull some way out of the hat....

Let's just hide and watch.

[Cisco Kid]

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[fred53]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

Basically The Villages is a vanity address. Wildwood need not worry.

if you are inclined to be a bit snobbish...there are those of us who think nothing of the address and only the quality of people around us...to those who do think it's a vanity address it's very narrow thinking on their part...

[Villageswimmer]

Originally Posted by Villager Joyce

My answer to the question posed by the OP is The Villages. As an aside, I am not in the least embarrassed to say my Church is in Wildwood.

Why would anyone be embarrassed?

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by naneiben

Why would anyone be embarrassed?

See posts 10 & 16. Apparently some would.

[Loudoll]

Originally Posted by Villager Joyce

My answer to the question posed by the OP is The Villages. As an aside, I am not in the least embarrassed to say my Church is in Wildwood.

Come to the church in the Wild...wood...oh come to the church in the dale...

[Fanman]

I think the mayor is afraid of losing his job. Another 1500 potential voters who will actually vote.

[Tobys Dad]

Why would anyone care. Get over yourselves!

[graciegirl]

There is nothing so dear to my childhood as the little brown church in the dale.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...E2E29A5A4D99A6

[looneycat]

so sad to hear that the Wildwood govt thinks so little of their own abilities, tsk!

[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by sunnyatlast

I remember reading in the Leesburg paper the reader comments loathing the idea of TV building on the farm annexed by Fruitland Park and being built by TV now.

Readers and councilmen's anger and prejudice was (almost verbatim): "We don't want the vote in our city taken over by a huge new voting bloc of "old (gag) rich (gag) white (super gag) Re______ns (ultra-super gag)." (Don't shoot me. I'm just the messenger, and we know the left-right balance is not that bad.)

But in the end they probably like the millions in increased taxes on former unused agricultural/pasture land, which probably multiplied current city budget/revenues by 10, and schools--a mega expenditure--don't need to be built and funded for over 55 age group.

I think they'll take the tax revenue …… and housing and economic growth.

The resentment of The Villages was all on the part of the commissioners who have been screwing up Fruitland Park for decades. They knew that over 80% of Villagers vote and far less than 50% of existing Fruitland Parkers vote.

The same issue exists for the mayor in Wildwood. He comments on building standards being different, but he fails to mention that there has been little or no new buildings in Wildwood in years, other than The Villages.

May be small towns, but its the same old self-interest politics.