Cohousing-L Mailing List: Thank you from a new community!

[G/P Looney-Burman (burloon]

Dear Cohousers,

 

I've been following the recent discussions with great interest (especially
the ones on common meals, children, why I live in cohousing, and more), and
I'm sure that others in our community are as well.  Thank you so much for
sharing your experience.  Our  Facilitation Committee is in the process of
creating policies for meals, pets, common house maintenance, and all the
rest that need to be put in place (at least as a starting point) to present
to our membership for review and consensus.  Fortunately, we're able to draw
upon the experience of other communities so that we're not having to
re-invent the wheel for each of these.

 

What has touched me most, however, has been the recent postings on why
people live in cohousing and what it means to them.  With each one, I'm
saying to myself, "Yes!" and "Yes!" and "Yes!"-these are the reasons I want
to be part of a cohousing community!

 

We'll start moving into Fresno Cohousing (La Querencia) in July, and, after
four years of planning, we can't wait!  We're a 28-household,
intergenerational community (McCamant and Durrett-designed!), which is the
first cohousing community in the Central Valley of California.  We are also
the first multi-family, residential community to qualify for the "Fresno
Green" sustainable building program!  

 

We still have several vacant residences which we hope to have sold by the
time we've all moved in, so if you're contemplating a move to central
California (keep in mind that we have no floods, no earthquakes and no fires
in our part of California) and want to live in cohousing, visit our website
at www.fresnocohousing.org.  Better than that, come be part of our
community!

 

Thank you again.  I'll keep reading and learning.

 

Pat Looney-Burman