Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: HOAs in Cohousing

[Charles R. Durrett (charles.durrett]

Dear Marta-

I want to debate this over dinner.

Thanks,
Chuck


> From: "Marta Vanegas, Concordia Organizer" <admin [at] concordiacohousing.org>
> Reply-To: <admin [at] concordiacohousing.org>, Cohousing-L
> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:57:12 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_ HOAs in Cohousing
> 
> In many ways, the idea is that cohousing is just a minimal deviation from the
> conventional condominium.  The more "minimal" you can put the deviation in
> terms of our PR, the better off we all are.  If we realize that cohousing is a
> sub-category of condominium development, we can totally bring the concept into
> the mainstream.  And the mainstream likes the idea of, say, recycling, healthy
> building materials, reducing individual consumption while not reducing the
> standard of living.  Oh, but you start to put out these big words like
> Permaculture, or Sustainability, and people start to assume that we are
> tree-huggers and weirdos forming a commune.  (Not that that would be a bad
> idea, I'd be open for it, especially if I were ten years younger, uhm, and
> single, LOL!)
>  
> Anyways, I now live in a condo community (more non-community, coz people are
> quite private here), which is superbly managed by a resident Manager (paid by
> the HOA dues) and of course there are lots of conflicts -- because people
> disobey the rules.  Sound familiar?  Different standards, pet issues, parking,
> pool privileges, storage at premium, etcetera.  Of course, if we had MORE
> common facilities, a little friendlier set-up and the cars would be parked on
> the side somewhere, to keep our children safe... it would be darn close to
> cohousing.  (My husband indeed insist that I go ahead and propose some changes
> to this effect at our next HOA meeting, usually attended by a few retired
> residents.  Hah!)
>  
> Yours, mrv
>  
>  
> 
> 
> Marta R. Vanegas
> Community Organizer
> Concordia Cohousing
> admin [at] concordiacohousing.org
> www.concordiacohousing.org
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