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

[Liz Brown (clzbrown]

Ok glad I checked

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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:10 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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> 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
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>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Liz Brown <clzbrown [at] rochester.rr.com> 
>> wrote:
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>> 
>> 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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