Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus, Majority Vote, "Blocks" [was Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

In other words, unilateral blocking cannot stand unless some additional 
fair-minded members can see the connection between the block and protecting 
community values — even if they themselves wouldn't prioritize for such a (high 
level of) protection.  That makes sense — and, from what I know of our 
membership, it could probably work for us.

R Philip Dowds AIA
Cornerstone Cohousing
175 Harvey Street, Unit 5
Cambridge, MA 02140
617.354.6094

On Oct 2, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Racheli Gai wrote:

> In our community a block has to be based on the kind of reasoning  
> Philip explains below, but a few other people need to see that the  
> connection between
> community mission; principles etc. exists (even if they disagree with  
> the actual blocking) for the block to stand.