Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cohousing undercover?

[bdsullivan (bdsullivan]

>John Deck writes of hoping to someday convert a condo complex in Santa Cruz
>into
>cohousing by slowly and quietly buying up a majority of the units.
>
>I would love to see this result, but is anyone else a little bothered by the
>sense of secrecy, making plans and then springing it on the unsuspecting others
>as soon as a majority exists?

I had the same gut feeling.

>
> But I'd feel much more comfortable about a conversion process that was much
>more open,
>attempting to win over ALL current residents
>
Why the need to convert everyone. Just inform them that a group of owners
within the development are pooling their friendships and energies together.
What could be threarening about that?

Brian D. Sullivan, Lecturer
Department of Architecture
Chinese University of Honk Kong
email  bdsullivan [at] cuhk.hk