Need outweighs opposition on Sugarmill Woods center

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Need outweighs opposition on Sugarmill Woods center

© St. Petersburg Times
published January 10, 2003
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Editor: As many Sugarmill Woods homeowners know, there is a great deal of support in the combined communities of Sugarmill Woods for a community center. A center would give the community a focal point to conduct business and social activities. Game, conference and meeting rooms, an auditorium for entertainment, dining, and intellectual and political gatherings and a fitness center are all planned.

There are a few citizens who are adamantly opposed to the center because it would increase annual assessments (estimated to be less than $50 per year per lot), because they wouldn't use its facilities and because we don't need it.

Ask yourselves if these are truly legitimate reasons or just very limited views of a small vocal minority. They either forget or don't care that we are the largest development without a community center in the whole of Citrus County; that our citizenry makeup is getting younger and more active; and that a center would lend new dimensions to our property values and to our lives at Sugarmill Woods.

Some of this minority are the same ones who cost our community hundreds of thousands of dollars because the center was not built when costs were lower. If Sugarmill Woods residents really want a place to call their communal home, they should forget the naysayers and actively support the drive for a community center.
-- Roger W. Johnson, Sugarmill Woods