Cohousing-L Mailing List: EBCOHO meeting tonight in Berkeley

[Raines Cohen (raines-coho-L]

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is holding an open planning 
meeting/orientation tonight (Thurs., May 3) in Berkeley, to strategize on 
how to build a new Cohousing community in the area. With new energy 
coming to the group, we're looking at how best to move forward on site 
searching and group development, and to prepare to take the fullest 
advantage of the upcoming North American conference coming our way this 
July.

EBCOHO has been meeting regularly for 2.5 years as a group-in-formation, 
searching for a site in the urban East Bay (centered around 
Berkeley/Oakland, CA; stretching as far as Richmond and San Leandro). 
It's been taking a break this Spring, letting the region's overheated 
real estate market cool a bit and members sort out their priorities, and 
is in the process of figuring out its next steps, based largely on who 
steps forward willing to do the work of organizing, site searching, and 
community building. This could be YOU!

Cohousing is a form of intentional community characterized by private 
ownership of individual (typically condo) units, member participation in 
the design process, a shared Common House, regular common meals, and 
consensus decision-making. There are more than five built cohousing 
communities in the Berkeley-Oakland-Emeryville area, and 55 in North 
America, with twenty more under construction and at least a hundred more 
in the planning or development process. As a member of The Cohousing 
Network, EBCOHO members are looking forward to participating in the North 
American Cohousing Conference, to be held at UC Berkeley this July 20-22, 
and Karen Hester's Retrofit Cohousing seminar coming up Saturday, May 12.

Time: Thursday, May 3, 7 PM

Location: Mafflely Room (in the basement)
          Herrick Campus, Alta Bates Hospital
          2001 Dwight Way @ Shattuck
          Berkeley, CA 94704

          Walking distance from Berkeley BART; map (see "Herrick Campus") 
at:
          http://www.altabates.com/information/directions/abmap.gif

Sorry, childcare is not provided at this meeting. The room is wheelchair 
accessible.

Contact: LeMoore (510) 528-2141
         ebcoho-info [at] ebcoho.org
         http://www.ebcoho.org/

General info on Cohousing: http://www.cohousing.org/



Raines Cohen <coho-L [at] raines.com> <http://www.swansway.com/>
Happy to host a Pleasant Hill coho meeting last night.

  Vice President, Swan's Market Cohousing [Old Oakland, CA]
Where we're preparing to make pavers for the garden.

  Member, East Bay Cohousing [no site yet] <http://www.ebcoho.org/>
Looking forward to seeing you tonight!.

  Boardmember, The Cohousing Network <http://www.cohousing.org/>
Which just added a full-day consensus seminar to the North American 
Cohousing Conference, July 20-22, Berkeley, CA.


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