Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: being friendly without being a public street

[Robert Heinich (robert_heinich]

At Eno Commons, we have a wooden saw horse where the street and pedway
meet with signs like "No Motor Vehicles" and "No Parking".  It has had a
reasonable level of success but it is not perfect.  If the saw horse are
moved to accommodate a service van and not put back, then this opens the
possibility of some unwitting person in a car using the pedway as a
drive.

A number of off-site neighbors do walk onto our property as part of their
walking regiment which we do not mind.  Of course, the kid with the
mini-bike racing through the neighborhood found out very quickly that not
only our pedway is private but also our street.

I would like a more elegant than a saw horse but this is not a priority.

Robert Heinich
Eno Commons
Durham, NC


On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:45:41 -0700 "Kay Argyle" <argyle [at] mines.utah.edu>
writes:
> A neighbor asked me to post this for our community. -- Kay
> 
> Could other groups describe what kind of signs have been put up 
> around your
> property or other structures or plants to create a clear boundary 
> between
> your property and public property and discourage your central  
> pathway from
> becoming a public side-walk?
> 
> Wasatch Commons is getting new neighbors.  26 new homes are being 
> built
> across the street.  We were on a dead-end road with only one other 
> house.
> We will now have 26 new neighbors, and the dead-end road has been 
> opened to
> through traffic.  We are fairly urban and want to define our borders 
> without
> erecting a 10-foot fence around our place.  We have no fences around 
> our 5
> acres, which has not been a problem in  the past, but recently we 
> have had 2
> cars (one a pizza delivery person and another a police car) try to 
> drive
> down our central path!  We will probably construct a sign that says 
> Wasatch
> Commons.  Could other groups describe their signs and what makes 
> them
> attractive and yet effective.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vicky
> Wasatch Commons
> 
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