Frustrated Villagers packed a meeting to complain about an annoying home.
Additional chairs had to be hauled into the meeting room Tuesday afternoon at SeaBreeze Recreation Center to accommodate the crowd of residents before the Community Development District 11 Board of Supervisors’ meeting could be gaveled into session.
Neighbors are frustrated by the over-the-top displays and invasive lights at the home of Dennis McGrath-Wagner on Webster Way in the Village of Pine Ridge.
Numerous flags are on display at the home. The Villages Daily Sun featured the McGrath-Wagner home in its July 4 edition of the newspaper. He told a Daily Sun reporter that “people slow down or even stop to look” at his home.
At Tuesday’s meeting, McGrath-Wagner’s neighbors insisted the curious drive-by golf carts are not admiring the home, which they say has been a problem for a year.
They suggested that his “seasonal displays” are over the top and not in keeping with the intent of the decorating standards they all agreed to when they purchased their homes in The Villages.
Even worse are the lights McGrath-Wagner has on display at his home. They are bright, flashing, and projecting out into the neighborhood. Apparently, as part of an ongoing feud with a neighbor, McGrath-Wagner set up a special scrolling message.
Supervisor Jan Collins described it.
“It says, ‘How do you like that, Nancy?’ or something to that effect,” Collins said.
Neighbors accused McGrath-Wagner of pointing the nuisance lights at their homes in a deliberate attempt to disrupt sleep and deprive them of relaxation. He also has been accused of pointing a video camera directly at a neighbor’s home.
McGrath-Wagner was not present at the meeting, which was specially called to consider a new rule about lighting that could dim his activities.
CDD 11 Board Chairman Don Brozick said that he and fellow board members wanted to be careful not to deprive residents of their rights to set up seasonal displays and to use lights to illuminate landscaping or for other laudable uses.
“We are trying to thread the needle here,” he said.
The board unanimously voted to approve the resolution with regard to the changes to the Architectural Review Manual. You can see the documents regarding the change in the agenda packet available at this link: District 11 Agenda Packet July 7, 2026
Supervisor Peter Russell said he believes that McGrath-Wagner has been showing “obvious direct defiance” and deliberately trying to make his neighbors miserable.
With the passage of the rule change, Russell urged Community Standards to “immediately” begin the process of bringing the McGrath-Wagner property into compliance, effectively dimming or turning off the lights that have been used to torment the neighborhood.
Russell noted that if McGrath-Wagner is branded a repeat offender by refusing to come into and remain in compliance, he could face fines of up to $500 per day.