Cohousing-L Mailing List: Decision making

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We started out with the same process we use now, namely, we really try to
reach consensus, and a member expressing a blocking-level concern usually
causes proposal sponsors to pull back, work with those who have concerns,
and possibly revise their proposal. Of course we want to elicit and work
through concerns before coming to the point of consensus.

However, if it comes to a block, the sponsors can invoke our block-handling
process - 60 days of trying to work it out followed by either a revised
proposal, a withdrawn proposal, or a vote on the original proposal.

We require an 85% supermajority to override a block.

We've had very few of these full- scale block processes, but knowing that
it's there has been reassuring to those of us who don't want one or two
residents to be able to block in an unreasonable or hostile way.
  Muriel at Shadowlake Village

On Sunday, March 3, 2019, Sandy Thomson <sandykthomson [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> I am wondering how many communities out there have switched from an
> unanimous decision making process to one that still embodies the consensus
> decision making process where there is a real desire for every voice to be
> heard but if a community becomes stuck and a unanimous decision can not be
> reached another method is employed.   We have been using unanimous decision
> making for over 20 years and have been worn down by the process several
> times.  We are now looking at the N-street process.  Have others adopted
> something like that?
> Thanks,
> Sandy
>
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