Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: so is it cohousing?

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

Clearly, developer driven cohousing CAN work.  Given the right  
circumstances.

Muir Commons was developer driven, as are all of Wonderland's projects.

Chris

On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Rob Sandelin wrote:

>  One of the interesting dynamics of developer driven community is  
> when the
> people actually get into their homes, will they have the commitment  
> and
> bonds to be a community?  Community is not made by a building, it is a
> deliberate relationship that you enter into willingly and with  
> purpose.
> Without that relationship, all the common elements in the world  
> will not
> make a community happen. There are not a lot of developer driven  
> communities
> yet, so it will be interesting to evaluate them in say 5 years  
> after people
> move in, and see what happened. Intention is really important, and  
> I have
> wondered how a developer would create intention if faced with a  
> conflict
> between intention and sales. If sales are lagging, would the  
> developer hold
> on to the intention, or would they bale.
>
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Sharingwood Cohousing
> Naturalist, Writer
> The Environmental Science School
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