Cohousing-L Mailing List: Boundaries

[Stacia Leech and Gary kent (garykent]

Hi:

Roberts Creek Cohousing (www.cohousing.ca/robertscreek ) in British
Columbia, Canada is nearing completion.  Our thirty one homes are all
occupied and the common house will be complete in about a month.  We are
a single family home development on approx 8 out of 20 acres.  The
entrance to the community is tucked away at the end of a cul de sac
close to the small village of Roberts Creek.  We are very close to an
elementary school where teens hang out at night.  The village also
attracts lots of teens on Friday and Saturday night.  Our site is long
and skinny, at the south (entrance) is the village, to the west a
unoccupied property with a trail through to our property and the
elementary school.  To the North is bush, to the east a public hiking
trail that comes quite close to the back of some of our lots.

We have begun to attract the attention of some of these local youths,
youths who have a reputation in the community and have already at a
tender age developed too close a relationship with the police.  

I'm looking for advice from other cohousing communities on boundaries.
Do other communities have signs if so what do the sign says? Are the
signs just posted at the entrance or also at other significant places
where the site interfaces with the greater community.

Have other communities experienced 'youth' on site who are not there for
a purpose and if so how do you deal with them?

I hope we don't sound like a paranoid bunch of Canucks - however we have
28 children here and we would like them (and their parents) to feel
comfortable roaming about their community.

Thanks,

Stacia Leech


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