Re: Rules
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
On 12 May 2011, at 11:37 AM, bonnie Fergusson wrote:

> Many of our neighbors had been meeting for years even before that during the 
> planning and design phase so there were many agreements which had been hashed 
> out already and not all of them had been written down. 

This is our problem right now. Not only are the understandings not written down 
but after 10+ years many people who were here then don't remember them. If the 
understanding was about children and they didn't have children then, they 
didn't focus on it. Now they have children and we have to start all over. 

Write it down and keep it up to date. New people feel embarrassed when they 
trip over an unwritten rule — even if everyone understands that they couldn't 
have known about it.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org





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