Re: Small business and shared resources questions | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: S. Kashdan (skashdanscn.org) | |
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:22:04 -0700 (MST) |
At Jackson Place Cohousing 800 Hiawatha Place South Seattle, WA 98144 www.seattlecohousing.org We have a number of people who work at home, with rooms set aside in their own homes for their offices or work areas. One person is an artist, and has set aside one room in her home for an art studio. If anyone wants to do their own personal work in the common house or in our common workshop, there is no problem with that, except they can't leave things set up for a long time and expect them not to be disturbed. I think that if someone wanted to use the common house kitchen to make food to sell on a regular basis or to use the dining room or living room as a place to sell things on a regular basis, we would have to discuss that. And, most community members would probably oppose that because it would interfere with community activities in the common house. But, that hasn't come up yet. I can't comment about raising animals because we don't have enough land for individuals to raise animals. We do have enough land and adjacent city land to have a large vegetable garden for the community and individuals who want to use it. The things that people grow in their individual gardens are theirs to do with what they please; most have chosen to donate surplus to neighbors and the community kitchen, but they could sell vegetables and fruits if they wished to. We also have some fruit trees. We are also thinking about getting some chickens, which would belong to the entire community, but only cared for by a few people. There has been some concern about bad odors from the chicken coop. We don't have any room for other animals. However, if a rural cohousing community had plots that were large enough for homes and grasing animals, I don't think there would necessarily be any problems about raising animals on your individual land plot--unless some of the other members didn't like it for some reason. That would be an individual question, not inherent in the nature of cohousing. I hope this helps a little. Sylvie Kashdan skashdan [at] scn.org Jackson Place Cohousing 800 Hiawatha Place South Seattle, WA 98144 www.seattlecohousing.org _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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