Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re:Request for community rules re smoking/alcohol/drugs

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

At Monterey Cohousing (Minneapolis, MN) our common house is also the home of 8
families  in coop-financed apartments.  The whole building is no smoking, no
illegal drugs.  I think the same applies to all common space (the drugs) - I 
can't remember about outside smoking - hasn't been an issue, and I don' want to
go way back to look it up.

We have very few members who use alcohol, but responsible use  in common house
is ok - there was just a private party with champagne served.  The non use is
often for allergy or medication conflict reasons - people who get headaches
from beer or wine, etc, and we just don't seem to have a lot of drinkers. 
Again, I don't remember the details of the policy, it was worked out so long
ago and has been little discussed   I suspect it was something about not
disturbing others.  

In home use is similar to Sharingwood, except that we have folks living in the
Common House which creates opportunities for impacts others might not have.
Judy

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
15 homes - 7 new townhomes plus 
        8 coop apartments       in the Mansion (a rehab Georgian building)
(built as a retirement home in 1924 -) which also serves as our Common House
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Rob wrote:
We agreed at Sharingwood that our commonhouse was a no smoking building.
Alcohol is frequently consumed in the commonhouse without incident and of
course peoples homes are there own domain to do whatever they want.