Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Coho impact on neighborhood ?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We have coho members on the historical commission, the library board, and on 
the finance committee. One person is active in the local lions club. The town 
loves those things.

We preserved many acres of land as conservatino land between two other pieces 
of land. That is better than the alternative which had planned to put houses up 
into that sliver, splitting the two conservation plots from each other. The 
town loves that.

We added a group of eight (??) year olds enough that the school had to add a 
second class, which then has moved up through the system--a staffing nightmare 
of needing two teachers for one, different grade each year. That after "we 
promised them that all our kids will be in private school and home schooled". 
(We believe we actually said "most kids" and that is probably true, but still.) 
They don't like that as much.

We come out to town meetings and listen to the issues and support important 
town things (accesibility and police cars and develpment projects and the 
like). The town loves that.

We come out and vote in regular elections, making our town an odd blue dot in a 
sea of red towns. Not sure folk actually love that!!

When politicians come round we invite them to our next social so they can meet 
lots of folk at once. Politicians love that.

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
www.mosaic-commons.org
508-450-0431




On Apr 11, 2016, at 3:47 PM, michael barrett <mbarrett [at] toast.net> wrote:

> 
> One possibility:
> Bunch of hippies is moving in, starting a commune, will be dancing naked 
> around a fire, smoking pot , etc, etc. Objecting neighbors will grumble about 
> decreasing  property values when really they are just envious because they 
> never got to do all that stuff.
> 
> From one of Muriel's neighbors whohas heard tell that before I moved in 8 
> years ago nude community hot-tubbing had occurred! I'm sure it's just a 
> story, after all we are totally responsible and respectable . . . . now.
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/11/2016 2:58 PM, Muriel Kranowski wrote:
>> What did/do the neighbors complain about or express concern about?
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Gerald Manata via Cohousing-L <
>> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> The new Cohousing going in Eugene also experienced negativity from their
>>> neighbors.
>>> 
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