The thing about cycling out villagers is that it's going to take quite awhile to do so. It's so much time spent into trying to get them to move, cycling through 16 villagers, then waiting on the holder to get said villager to move out of their town... Only to get said villager in the same exact spot! I'm exaggerating, but you get the picture. Also, it's never a guarantee that they'll hold on to them forever... They might give you a deadline or whatever, and that's no fun.
If you really want your current villagers, yet don't like the placement of them, then you might as well go with option 2 and have someone hold your items. However, that's a very long process in itself, and you might not like the new town layout as much as you thought you would. You'd have to purchase the villagers (again?).