Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: ReZoning

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Dear Gilo:

You're right, I live in San Diego CA USA--different country and continent. I 
don't know how universal politics is or whether my experience will be of any 
use, so I will just say this:

Many years ago I sat on the San Diego Subdivision Advisory Committee (about 
9 or 10 years) and the "Urban Design Task Force." I was a park planner, and 
studied public administration, planning, and urban geography in addition to 
landscape architecture, but my strongest suit was ecology; I ran an 
ecosystem restoration and management consulting business for 21 years.

In general, when one is trying to get rezoning, at least in the USA, it 
takes a lot of work building allies inside before submitting, or a lot of 
power and money to pressure and bribe (though we never call it that). One 
has to think about what's in it for those in power, but a well-planned 
strategy of making your project attractive to the community and planning 
staff can't hurt. It can help a lot to get to know people and know the 
issues that push or don't push hot-buttons. And patience. Keeping cool.

But of course, you know all this already, and then some.

There are always issues with density, but sometimes one can get density by 
building up and preserving some open land, or otherwise trading off some 
other community benefit for the density. That was the idea behind the Urban 
Design Task Force (but it didn't go anywhere, as I recall--I resigned my job 
and went into the dog-eat-dog world of private enterprise about that time.

WT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gilo" <gilo.assif [at] gmail.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:40 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ ReZoning


> Dear CoHoz,
>
> My Name is Gilo Holtzman, living in Sydney Australia.
> in the past year I have been involved in establishing and promoting a
> cohousing community here.
> although we are miles apart I was hoping to learn from your experiences in
> rezoning sites to suit cohousing development, under what title? any issues
> with density? or size of dwelling allowed?
>
> Many Thanks
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> *gilo.holtzman | [+61] 0424 490 554*
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