Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common house reservations

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hello,

	We have a concierge function who handles all the reservations for 
common facilities.  Generally cohousing meetings take precedence over 
community social functions, which take precedence over private functions 
open to the community, which take precedence over outside functions. 
Functions require a resident sponsor willing to take responsibility for 
the event, especially cleanup and damage avoidance.  Functions that will 
have a large number of attendees (over 20), last more than four hours, is 
open to the public, etc., need to have Community Life Committee approval. 
There's a routine procedure in getting that approval.

	As far as the guest rooms go, we have active periods where folks 
can reserve them only a limited period in advance, otherwise they can be 
reserved at any point ahead.  Also, if a household exceeds a treshhold in 
reserving the rooms, they become a "high use household" for a period of 
time, where they have less priority than other households.

        All the best in selling your remaining units!

Regards,
David Heimann
Jamaica Plain Cohousing


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:57:34 -0400
From: Catya Belfer-Shevett <catya [at] homeport.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ Common house reservations
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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Hi all,

I'm looking for the common wisdom on common house space reservations to
start a discussion with my group this Sunday (we're moving in soon).

How do you handle guest rooms reservations? Are there worries about
people monopolizing them? What do you do about that?

How about the great room?  Inclusive (of the community) events?
Exclusive/private events? Big events? Small events?

Other community rooms? Living room or whatever?

Thanks!!

        - cat

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