Hacienda Village, Florida

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Hacienda Village (founded 1949) is a defunct town located in central Broward County, Florida in the United States. It possessed both a police and fire department as well as various other municipal agencies, yet still relied heavily on Broward County for many services. It was disincorporated in 1984 (allegedly having its charter revoked after the HVPD cited an influential state representative for a traffic infraction) and was subsequently absorbed into the nearby town of Davie, Florida.

The Mayor of Hacienda Village, "Red" Crise, originally from New Jersey, appointed himself the Police Chief, Fire Chief and Judge Magistrate. Crise presided over some 18 police officers as well as over a nightly traffic court.

Hacienda Village was composed of 14 mobile homes and three junk yards. Residents were not taxed as the town always had a healthy surplus of funds from traffic fines. The fines were a result of some fancy and obscure speed limit postings which were heavily enforced by a highly efficient police officers.

As with Andytown, it was crippled by the construction of the interstate system, for the I595 spur, along the Florida SR 84 corridor, removed most of its revenue, rerouting traffic from SR84 to I595. I595 runs from the Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale International Airport at US1 to the junction of I75, where it veers west towards Andytown and Naples.