Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Membership definitions

[Bitner/Stevenson (lilbert]

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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

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>From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] email.msn.com>
>Subject: RE: Membership definitions
>Date: Fri, Jun 4, 1999, 5:06 AM
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> Your ownship model will define what a member is, typically a condo unit
> owner. If you go Co-op you can have every individual be a member, if you go
> condo, then each condo will get one membership to be divided amoung
> co-owners. The banks usually like it this way, which is why most groups do
> it.

Oh, well, I wasn't going to get in on this one, but I had to reply to this
point. We are  a condo, and I don't think that entered into the decision of
how to decide membership at all. Every adult in our community is a member,
and every child can come to meetings and be heard-usually when there is a
burning issue for them, they come en masse and help us decide what to do.
Having half a vote if you're part of a couple is like going back in time to
when there was no women's suffrage! Houses don't make decisions that people
need to live with, people do.