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

[Liz Brown (clzbrown]

tx!
( finance committee of … library board?)

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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