Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Sharon's Comments About How to Start Reforming Our Condos

[James Kacki (jimkacki]

You have a very interesting idea there Marta! Some food for thought. 
What do others think?
James

Marta Vanegas, Concordia Organizer wrote:
> Sharon,
>
> Thanks for the helpful suggestions.  Actually, our condo complex currently have pretty strict rules about what is "allowed" to be done in terms of gardening and landscaping in the common areas.  But every rule may change.  Let me illustrate this: In order to enhance the feng shui of my townhouse I decided to put out two potted plants to the two sides of my brick-red door.  They were brick red flowering plants in brick-red pots.  Wow, it looked stunning, and it did a nice balancing act to the otherwise lopsided landscaping around my entry door.  Of course, one week after I installed the pots, we got our monthly newsletter from the management, stating that the rule is to put out not more than one pot.  Well, I didn't remove one of my pots, considering it civil resistance, and considering that two pots have way better balancing effect on my entryway than one pot.  The next month or so, we got the next newsletter stating that the policy is to put out not more than 2 pots!  Oh, 
th
>  e winds
>  of change.
>
> Another story: as we were discussing with my husband the question of how to 
> enhance our current condo community, we jhappened to arrive to our parking 
> garage - a shared garage of four.  Well, our neighbor was just getting out of 
> his car when he overheard me saying that we, as a community, should perhaps buy 
> one of the available three-bedroom condos  for ourselves and use it as a common 
> house.  And boy, did he like the idea.  He said we really needed a clubhouse 
> and more common facilities and perhaps a playground...  and I think that's 
> promising.
>
> As somebody said before, condos just make so much ecological sense, and a slow, 
> but steady conversion in existing condo communities is perhaps an idea worth 
> exploring.
>
> Yours in community, whether existing or in the making,
>
>
>
> Marta R. Vanegas
> Community Organizer
> Concordia Cohousing
> admin [at] concordiacohousing.org
> www.concordiacohousing.org
>
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