Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: meals

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Sep 10, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Eris Weaver wrote:
> The biggest reason we decided NOT to open it up was purely physical: 
> our
> meals are very well attended and our dining room is full! We have no 
> ROOM
> to add more people!

Wanting to open meals is very altruistic and people here wanted to do 
the same thing. Our lawyers were afraid it would raise all sorts of 
liability and tax issues (this does not fall under the condominium law 
so what would it be -- a restaurant?). Before we got a legal decision 
we saw that it was impossible and unnecessary. We have a number of 
regular guests and we have no more room for more people.

We are a large community 43 units and 82 residents. Meals quickly 
become impossibly large. We don't even have that many chairs!

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org