Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Purchasing land from a school district

[Susan Smith (sdsrdh]

Eileen, I would love to hear more about your Tammany Commons project in 
Washington and am intrigued by your goal to pursue forgotten crafts.  Thanks 
for sharing!

Sue Smith,

Kona Hawaii


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:19:03 -0600
From: leenaree [at] xmission.com
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Subject: [C-L]_ Purchasing land from a school district
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   Hello!

   I don't know if other school districts do it? a similar way, but
the Everett School District in Washington owns parcels designated
either for future construction of schools, possible exchange with the
city for park use, or joint use with organizations that support an
educational mission.

   Our start-up cohousing group has as part of its mission statement
to offer instruction and hands-on opportunities in growing and
preserving food, as well as dyeing, cheesemaking and other?
"forgotten" crafts.

   Have any of you successfully negotiated purchasing a parcel from a
school district?? What advice can you offer in terms of how to explain
cohousing, and the benefits of having cohousing as a neighbor to a
school?

   Thanks!

   Eileen McCabe

   Tammany Commons


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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:38:19 -0400
From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Purchasing land from a school district
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> On Apr 21, 2017, at 12:19 AM, leenaree [at] xmission.com wrote:
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>  Our start-up cohousing group has as part of its mission statement to offer 
> instruction and hands-on opportunities in growing and preserving food, as 
> well as dyeing, cheesemaking and other  "forgotten" crafts. Have any of you 
> successfully negotiated purchasing a parcel from a school district?  What 
> advice can you offer in terms of how to explain cohousing, and the benefits 
> of having cohousing as a neighbor to a school?

I would suggest naming the part of your venture that is devoted to teaching and 
stressing how that would work. I don?t think the city would want the space used 
for a housing development.

To learn to speak their language, see if you can attend meetings of the school 
board? The city council? That might help in understanding the argument from 
their point of view ? in their words.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org






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