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

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

ha! oops. Finance committeee of the town of Berlin, MA.

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




On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Liz Brown <clzbrown [at] rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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