Cohousing-L Mailing List: The "Burden on Local Schools" Argument against Development

[Kai von Fintel (lists]

Does the cohousing community as an exponent of smart housing have any 
collective expertise in countering various arguments that are routinely 
brought up against new developments? We at Mosaic Commons are currently 
hard at work managing the poltical situation in a town where we have 
found a parcel that would work beautifully (with some challenges) for 
our group. And again and again, we hear that our children will 
overburden the local schools, that our development is too dense, etc. 
It is the "schools" argument in particular that we would appreciate 
some help with.

What responses have worked for you? What language did you use towards 
the kind of "Cohousing seems great, but not in my neighborhood, not in 
my town" attitude?

Kai von Fintel, Mosaic Commons, West of Boston, MA
<http://www.mosaic-commons.org>
Where we just had a fantastic preliminary site design workshop with 
KrausFitch Architects (our third on yet another property).

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