Was there perhaps some sweet gerrymandering to have a facility with a Lady Lake address and zip code be part of Sumter County?

No surprising at all.

Commissioners dictate what can and cannot be built by voting down approval permits.

Suddenly, three new Cadillacs will appear in certain Drive ways after the voting is November.

Just a joke folks don't take this seriously

Postal mailing addresses aren't the same as county boundaries.

Pull up the county map, and you will see that the physical location of the country club and parking lot was in Sumter, and part of the golf course is in Lake county.

So there likely are several parcels in county records with different assessments. Visit the county web sites to see for yourself. This occurs in many jurisdictions.

No gerrymandering. A straight line county boundary in that area separating Sumter and Lake counties.

I'm guessing you don't live in that single family neighborhood that is on the verge of being changed forever. Yes, many of us would prefer a parking lot.

I don't understand this line of thinking. Yes, I know there are open primary states, so it's a fait accompli in those cases. But why should people who are not part of a particular political group be able to help determine whom that group decides to run as candidates?

In my view, if you really want to have a say, then join that party. Or, support candidates from another party to run against whomever the other party has chosen.

You've stated that you have "no party affiliation". So why should you have any power in a primary that's selecting people who do have a party affiliation? It's like "I have no desire to join your club, but I want to be able to help decide who gets to run for office in your club". I don't get that.

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I do not join a party because I pick the people individually from either party that I feel best represents the interests of the constituents they will stand for. I do not swallow the fish whole but by being NPA, I do not get to vote in ANY primary and do not think that is FAIR. Both parties do not want NPA’s to vote because by not being affiliated, they cannot tie you to their party. I could switch parties continuously and vote In primaries all the time but would prefer to have that right as an NPA.

You talk about being "FAIR", but you've made your choice. The choice of NPA - at least in Florida - is that you don't get to vote in political party primaries. You knew that going in, no?

I don't know what being "tied to a party" means, as you say it. Are you talking about junk mail and robo calls for campaign donations? Is it that you don't want someone seeing your name on a voting roll? Whatever the case is, part of the deal of NPA - in Florida - is that it lives up to its name. If you're not affiliated with a party, you get excluded from things like primaries for any party. Seems fair to me. Otherwise, it's a "have your cake and eat it, too" scenario.

Also, what difference does it make if you're a registered R or D (or whatever)? You can vote for whomever you wish in the general elections.

Dream on! Not in our life time.

A apartment or two fine, but they will be popping up like assisted living on every corner. At some point this will affect resales. So, if you can’t sale you’re home you can’t move into apartments. Laugh now but wait when they pop up of CR42 in open fields, polo fields, glenview, lopez, and work way south when developers properties become to runs down and defunct?

Nothing will change. Money is the pivotal driver in everything here. There may have been a vision 40 yrs ago however TV strayed from that exponentially. The lack of honesty the aggressive sales tactics the control of the messaging thru media just makes the vision merely that. Everything here is nothing like the commercials.

Amen

I liked Katie Belles, as did a lot of people. I was a fun place. But you are right. The developer gets to "dictate"! And that makes us......What?

Gets me that people say that Katie Belles closed due to people coming in and not ordering anything.

All management had to do is have a certain minimum charge per person and the problem goes away.