Cohousing-L Mailing List: Membership policy

[Terry Lavender (wetcoast]

Hi everybody. Just joined this email list and looking forward to participating 
in the discussions.

Our community, Treehouse Village Ecohousing<https://treehousevillage.ca/> in 
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, is just finishing construction and getting ready for 
move-in in early 2023. As we prepare for this final stage, we’re trying to 
decide on various policies, including membership – who can be a member of our 
community, should there be different levels of membership and what rights and 
responsibilities are associated with those categories?

Some of the questions we are wrestling with are the rights of non-resident 
owners (e.g., owners who rent out their units); the rights of tenants; and the 
rights of associate members (if we decide to have such a category). Do they get 
to use common facilities? Do they pay a fee? Can they participate in decision 
making?

We were wondering if other communities had any insights they could share on 
this? What does your community do?

Thanks in advance!

Terry