Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Choosing units

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hi all -- Jessie wrote a great summary of our mock draw last night.  The
excitement in the room was electric!  Quite different from expectations as
there was great anxiety in phone calls and email mounting during the day.
For a while I thought it was going to be a two chocolate bar meeting.  Whew!

Jessie complimented me (thank you!) on the facilitation and for working w/
Katherine Matthews of Eco Housing...I'm happy to say, however it was almost
all Katherine and ECO staff who worked so tirelessly in the week previous to
meet as many needs and requests as possible.  I played "traffic cop" during
the meeting -- a role I seem suited to w/ my whistle and night stick.  (Just
kidding about the whistle and night stick!)

A great evening all around!  There was a lot of laughter, chatter and good
feelings all evening.  And in a consummate show of community, at least one
member with priority gave up his 1st choice to another member and untangled
a whole knot of overlapping choices.  Pretty incredible for a group that for
the first two months of its life met anywhere space was available including
back rooms of restaurants, has met fewer than 2 dozen times total and grown
at the rate of 1 new member household every other day since Jan. 15th! And
we're still on that pace w/ two new members joining in the next two days.

I need a nap every time I think about the growth speed of this group!

Onward! 

Ann z.

On 3/19/03 11:53, "Dahako [at] aol.com" <Dahako [at] aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi -
> 
> I got enough responses on and off list to my question about choosing units
> that I thought I'd report on how our "mock draw" last night went.
> 
> First off, Ann Zabaldo facilitated the meeting and did a great job!  She and
> Katherine Matthews of the Ecohousing staff worked with a couple of members for
> several days to flush out things to consider in choosing a unit.  Initially,
> most people focused on the view from or light into their units (we're very
> urban - a retrofit of a four-story commercial building into condos).
> Ecohousing helped members consider questions of noise, location relative to
> the common spaces, and several other issues unique to the site (such as
> ceiling heights on the ground floor).

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