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Testimony Text — Sumter County Board — Public Comment
Everglades Recreation Center, The Villages, FL. September 21, 2020. Text provided to reporters.
The Villages developer is proposing the addition of rental apartments in residential areas and the Squares. Except for one comment at the end, I will let others address residential areas.
I am addressing the town squares.
After we retired, we travelled the Eastern seaboard for over a month looking at retirement communities. We spent 3 days in the Marriott next to the Spanish Springs town square.
Five months later, we decided that The Villages was the best place we visited and bought a house, primarily because of the town squares. They are unique.
The squares are currently shutdown by the virus, but I expect them to eventually reopen as they were before.
The developer has done an excellent job designing and maintaining The Villages — highly professional. Their first rental apartments, the recently-completed Lofts at Brownwood, were well-planned to fit in with the community.
The developer has been publicly comparing The Lofts in the newspaper with the newly proposed apartments in the…
