The world's weirdest definition of cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L![]() |
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:05:05 -0700 (PDT) |
Somebody on a spam website just posted a what-is-cohousing article through some kind of odd translation, and I find the result (pasted below) strangely meaningful and revelatory; does anybody else? I'm personally looking forward to our new "full armored kitchen and dining shack module", where we've expressed our "brawny opinion[s]" about "surface[s] shapely for sharing" that are "commonly condemned by consensus" (we are in the process of redesigning the kitchen in our Common House to better meet our needs) Warning: do not read if you enjoy logic and expect things to make sense. Perhaps we should hold an impromptu session on this at the conference next week? Look for me there at the Cohousing California table, and conference-goers, keep an eye on your inboxes for some special deals and showings that we, along with other vendors and community groups exhibiting there, are putting together to make sure you'll want to stop by. Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach, Planning for Sustainable Communities (at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing) http://www.CohousingCoach.com/ After the conference, planning to visit cohousing neighborhoods in Madison (WI) and lower Michigan The world's weirdest definition of cohousing: The conventional Lepot originated in Denmark, but the dynamical significance of accord and ethnic interaction has daylong been constituted and hit proven by most homeowners everywhere. Roughly defined, Cohousing is a identify of willful community, participated in by residents direct at the first of the organisation impact and relic astir in daylong after it every in. Cohousing communities around the concern exhibit digit essential functions involve: advise brawny opinion the Community and the cooperation of their inhabitants, supplemented by the proximity of surfaces and structures shapely for sharing. As already mentioned, forthcoming residents already its deal in the thinking impact Cohousing communities. This effectuation most of the features of the accord emit their needs and preferences, with lowercase signaling from the developer. Since most grouping wait a daylong instance spent experience in this identify of community, it makes significance for their opinions and views be noted and module be followed if some should wait individualist to hit every his expectations to the fullest extent be met. Therefore, it is essential for the forthcoming residents of the communities Cohousing ordinary exteroception and orientation in traffic to the identify of accord they poverty to springy in. Cohousing communities are also physically distributed from every another forms of communities, settled in those from the accord deal by a beatific significance to boost community. This effectuation less houses could listing 10-70 are typically classified unitedly covering apiece another with the ordinary scheme and within analyse of apiece residential property. Parking is ofttimes on the periphery, patch large, unstoppered spaces for ordinary ingest and state of the residents instead. The ordinary scheme or antiquity containing facilities that everyone crapper ingest in the community. Normally, this scheme has its possess full armored kitchen and dining shack module be armored as members of the accord is due to verify meals unitedly individual nowadays a week, digit another momentous state in exclusive cohousing communities. Other ordinary areas of the concern was a movement area, a games room, laundry, library, workshop, shape room, workroom, modify a shack or digit to be. Cohousing communities has also referred to areas much as playgrounds and accord gardens. Participation in this identify of act is also required by the position of apiece resident, the tasks to manifest the position is ever done. This could be from the activity to the nutrition to the manufacture of ordinary policies and rules of the garden area. However, there are no authorised body in a accord constituted Cohousing decisions are commonly condemned by consensus. Although it is as tightly material a accord as doable haw seem, Cohousing communities are not shapely to wage a churchlike accord or ideology. Full domain for some residential organisation is enjoyed by azygos grouping and there is no azygos EU frugalness or a azygos maker of income for the residents. Apart from existence conception of near cooperation and community, cohousing residents savor the additional goodness of security, as apiece member would be for every and some intruder or newborn grappling is known, sure to be questioned or guarded. Because of this, Cohousing communities commonly alter abidance in a flourishing obligation in the actual realty mart and ofttimes hit a daylong distinction of inactivity grouping at a time.
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