Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Advice re an Owners Excessive Recycling Acquisitions

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

I think your only recourse is to come up with universally applicable and
very clear policies about what kinds of personal possessions can be stored
on which areas of common land and for how long. Your hoarder needs to see
that these policies apply to everyone, even though it will be obvious that
they were inspired by her.

This is something we learned the hard way, because we didn't have clear
policy about this. A homeowner wanted to use common land in a way that
everyone except that household thought was "obviously" inappropriate, but
they felt singled out and that they were being unfairly denied such use
because our agreements were not explicit on this point. (Some of us thought
the rules were pretty clear, but they weren't clear to everybody as it
turned out.)

We learn from our mistakes....

  Muriel @ Shadowlake Village