Re: choosing a community name
From: Muriel Kranowski (murielkvt.edu)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT)
Is "Pioneer Valley" still the usual name for your region, or is there any
popular pushback against it?

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 5:52 PM Jerry Koch-Gonzalez <
jerry [at] sociocracyforall.org> wrote:

> Our legal name is Cherry Hill Condominium Association. We are known to the
> world as Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community. In Massachusetts, if I
> remember right, it costs $50 every five years to register our public "Doing
> Business As" name. Very simple.
> On the other hand, we are wondering about changing our name from Pioneer
> Valley to something that does not evoke white settlers taking over
> indigenous land. After 25 years, it is not easy to decide on a name change.
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> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:32 AM Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I know nothing of Cohousing names. And I am trying to do some legal
> things
> > at a church that 150 years ago formed with a legal name they have never
> > used. And we can’t do the legal work with out figuring out what our legal
> > name *is*. Hours of work. Like 50-60 hours.
> >
> > So do something that keeps the legal name in some people’s hands and
> minds
> > as many years go by.
> >
> > Liz
> > Mosaic commons Cohousing in Berlin ma.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:51 PM Marcia Zuckerman via Cohousing-L <
> > cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> >
> > > As Bay State Commons anticipates the completion of our building, we're
> > > also exploring changing our name. In this connection, we'd like to ask
> a
> > > question about naming — specifically, about the relationship of a
> coho's
> > > legal name on condo documents to the name it's known by publicly.
> > > Apparently it's common cohousing practice for a coho's public and legal
> > > names to be basically the same (e.g., XYZ Cohousing in public,  XYZ
> > > Condominium on the condo docs). In our case, we're also exploring the
> > > alternative: having the legal name on condo docs be different from the
> > name
> > > we're known by publicly. So we'd really appreciate feedback from other
> > > cohousers.
> > > Is this also fairly common practice among cohos? If your community's
> > legal
> > > and public names are different, could you share why you did it this
> way,
> > > and do you have any words of experience or advice to share? Also, did
> you
> > > decide to make any legal provision for your public name — e.g., a
> > separate
> > > LLC, registering it as a Doing-Business-As name, or such? (State laws
> > will
> > > vary, of course.)
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