Did you happen to see what is across the street? None other than Blake’s Xpress Car Wash. Maybe they are shilling for the competition next door.

Buncha NIMBYs. I can’t imagine a lot of kids in a gated community are taking a bus anywhere.

Based on the article’s wording my impression is that the car wash/road she’s discussing are outside the gated community.

The big difference between an HOA and real government is that real governments like Federal, State, County, Municipal, School Districts and other districts, is that governments have to follow laws. If you don’t like them, you can lobby to amend them. The gated community’s HOA will find it much easier to screw with…

I’m not sure if taxes pay for sidewalks at a gated community. Wouldn’t that be part of the HOA?

and companies should have to pay it if their employees commute to work. Maybe that’ll incentivize them a little more to feint caring for the environment.

I mean, based on how that development is laid out, you would think it was obvious there are two big commercial parcels around the entrance, and I guarantee you there were disclosures about it in the purchase documents. But of course all those people bought their little townhomes thinking that open space would never be…

Of the ‘Twilight’ and ‘Danger’ varieties.

I grew up in a gated community in Ft Myers. This is 100% of what they worry about. While Florida has miles of beaches, it has infinitely more strip malls (mostly empty/gift shops that turn over every 18 months). 41/Tamiami Trail is the epicenter of strip mall hell. This is their paradise.

This is racial/economic gatekeeping more than anything else. Gated community dwellers will have big garages and drive ways to clean their cars in (or rather for the help to clean them in). Car washes like this will attract *aparment dwellers*. 

One thing Americans love more than anything is telling people what to do while getting pissed off at other people telling them what to do.

You think that’s bad. I once wasted hours of my life at a small New England town meeting because the bowling alley on MAIN STREET wanted to increase the amount of video games they had from seven to FIFTEEN!! The subdivision behind them was not a gated community, but they also wanted everyone to please think of the…

So Tampa resident here. People are absolute fuckwits in our state.

Sidewalks are paid for by taxes, so I’ll just bet that’s a big deal-breaker for ol’ Barb there.

With all those slippery slopes, I would expect more broken hips...

So Tampa resident here. People are absolute fuckwits in our state. In my neck of the woods, a new apartment building went up and so a local grocer wanted to set up shop on the first floor. The grocer also wanted to sell liquor. Well, a handful of people raised hell with the city commission because they didn’t want it.…

As a small city councilman, I could not love everything about this article more. LOL

“I’m worried about the kids going to the bus stop. They’re gonna be walking down this road with these big trucks you saw going by, and people flying in and out to go to the car wash,” Barb Vickers, a resident in the Jonathan’s Bay gated community, told WINK News.

VMT (vehicle miles traveled) taxes are much better at financing transportation infrastructure and maintenance. Users need to pay.

Where would old, right-wing, Florida boomers be without a slippery slope fallacy?