RE: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com) | |
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 11:27 CST |
Steve Mabley asked: >We want to anticipate all of the possible objections to our project and >address them at the start. We want to know: >1) What are the possible objections to our development from the community? >2) What "solutions" can we build into our project so that these objections >will be effectively defused? The best people to answer these questions are your future neighbors. If you can get access to the land, put on a big picnic, invite everyone who surrounds the area. Feed em, set up cooperative childcare that actually does things with kids (games, events, creative opportunities), have displays and brochures about cohousing and then put out a written survey form, in person to everyone with the two questions above, slightly reworded. It is really easy to be suspicious of strangers doing strange things in "YOUR" neighborhood. If you do not define cohousing for the neighbors, they will define it themselves, perhaps in very negative and untrue ways. Its easier to be tolerant of people who are different once you have sitten down, shaken their hand, met them, shared dinner. Granted, not everyone will come, but many will and many will go away with a positive encounter and happy to see what good things are going to happen to "their" open space and farm. At a minimum, print up a couple hundred brochures and take them door to door. Ask for input. People will be blown away that you asked. When Sharingwood was being proposed, the owners at that time went door to door to every adjoining neighbors house and explained what was up, and ASKed the neighbors how they felt about it. That was long before my time at Sharingwood but I still get comments (positive ones) from neighbors, even those whose political philosophies would make them deeply suspicious of such a commie, liberal idea. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood
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NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Mabes, March 19 1995
- Re: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing John Gear, March 19 1995
- RE: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Rob Sandelin, March 20 1995
- NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Judy, March 20 1995
- Re: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Stephen Hawthorne, March 21 1995
- NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Mabes, March 21 1995
- Re: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing Pablo Halpern, March 22 1995
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