Cohousing-L Mailing List: NIMBY-ism & Opposition to Cohousing

[Mabes (Mabes]

Beulah Road Cohousing in Vienna VA, is currently formulating public relations
and political strategies for our project.  We would like to get some ideas
from you all.

Our project will be a clustered infill development on part of one of the last
farms in an upper middle-scale suburban community of single family homes.  We
will seek rezoning from "Agricultural" to "Planned Unit Development" at an
overall density roughly equivalent to the upper range of the surrounding
community.  We will seek to permanently transfer the development rights of
the undeveloped farmland in order to get the desired number of units in our
cluster.

We want to anticipate all of the possible objections to our project and
address them at the start.  We want to know:

1) What are the possible objections to our development from the community?
2) What "solutions" can we build into our project so that these objections
will be effectively defused?

Please feel free to brainstorm to your hearts content and post or sent to us
what you come up with.  Thanks, in advance for the help!

--Steve Mabley
  Washington, DC
  Beulah Road CoHousing