Cohousing-L Mailing List: Vote against cohousing?

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I have participated in a few such things before. Often its not COHOUSING,
its multiple-family housing that is the issue. Multiple family housing is
often seen as less  desirable and is often equated in peoples minds and
emotions with rental apartments. It is also associated with urbanization.
The fears are often lowering of property values, increase of crime. There is
sometimes nothing you can do about this.

Rob Sandelin
Sky Valley Environments  <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
Floriferous [at] msn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Kai von Fintel
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:42 AM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Call for Support



Becky (and everyone else):

Thanks for your responses. We at Mosaic Commons were taken by surprise
by this development. We thought that we had a legal maneuver up our
sleeves that would have circumvented the town meeting. It didn't work,
so we found ourselves in front of the town meeting with a day's notice.
We lost the vote last night and will very likely have to find another
property to build our community on.

Just to be clear. Our group has had a group membership in The Cohousing
Network for years. A lot of us subscribe and contribute to this list.
What we tried to do yesterday was flush out every last person in Stow
who supports cohousing. There were indeed many such who showed up, but
we still lost the vote by a huge majority.

--
Kai von Fintel
Mosaic Commons, Massachusetts
http://www.mosaic-commons.org

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:31 AM, Becky Schaller wrote:

> Kim, while it is not a local group, Raines reminds me that The
> Cohousing Network may be the support system in place that you are
> looking for.  The information they're gathering for the directory may
> be helpful in the future to communities like yours in the future.
> Also, they put out the cohousing magazine.  I know of at least one
> other community that  has had a similar
> experience.  For this situation, you really didn't give us much lead
> time. But if you keep asking, these communities might be very helpful
> resources. I consider this listserv a VERY important support system
> for many aspects of cohousing.
>
> Do let us know how things went.
>
> Becky
>
>> [snip] We are trying to drum up support any way we know how. If you
>> know anyone who supports cohousing and can vote (a Stow resident) to
>> support us tonight please ask them to do so.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kim Shute, Mosaic Commons
>>
>> PS Is there a support system like this in place that I do not know
>> about?

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