Community Development Districts 2, 3 and 4 briefly discussed Friday a Villager’s letter to them expressing concern for the safety of landscape workers planting flowers in traffic circles.
Villager Rich Cardillo wrote to CDD supervisors voicing his concern that a landscape worker could be hurt
while planting or tending to flowers in a traffic circle. Cardilllo cited an April 21 accident in which a Villager’s car knocked over a palm tree in the traffic circle at Bonita and Buena Vista boulevards.
Cardillo reasoned that ultimately the CDDs could be sued if someone was injured.
But CDD supervisors in those three district have concluded that they are adequately protected from possible liability should such an accident occur.
CDD 2 Supervisor Bryan Lifsey said that even if such an accident happened, there would be plenty of entities liable before it ever reached the CDD.
“Who’s negligent? Who is liable? Presumably the knucklehead driver who hit him. That’s why (drivers) have liability insurance. And the business (who employs the worker) would have to have worker’s compensation,” Lifsey said.
He also pointed out that Sumter County owns the roads in CDD 2 and that the county would be in line to be sued before it reached the CDD.
“In 12 years involved in Villages Public Safety, I have never been involved with a landscaper being hit planting flowers,” said CDD 3 Supervisor Gail Lazenby, a captain with Villages Public Safety Department.
“A huge portion of this community is aesthetics,” Lazenby added.
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