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

[castrohom [at] aol.com (castrohom]

Love this discussion
We created an introductory PowerPoint for talks we give - also for our engineer 
to show at various city meetings for our planning process (Development Review 
Board and City Commissioners etc.)
There’s one slide entitled “What Cohousing is Not …” 
Residents do not have a shared economy
Residents do not have a common set of beliefs or a religion.
Cohousing communities are not cults or communes.
There is no ‘leader’ … residents agree to share responsibilities.
No ownership by a management company.

People laugh but it’s a nervous laughter tinged with relief - I think people 
are grateful that we addressed their unspoken fears

Happy to share the PowerPoint 
Miranda

Miranda Castro | Chair, Building Committee
Gainesville Cohousing | http://www.gainesvillecohousing.org 
<http://www.gainesvillecohousing.org/> 
Phone 352-505-8545 | Email mirandacastro [at] aol.com <mailto:mirandacastro 
[at] aol.com>  

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Mary English <mary.english [at] hsc.utah.edu> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> At the planning of Wasatch Commons the neighborhood was convinced we would be 
> a polygamy clan, but then only in Utah would that ever be raised.  When I 
> voted only a few years after moving in, one of the election judges tartly 
> remarked that none of us were attending church, meaning the LDS church, and I 
> had to assure him that many attended church other than his.
> 
> One of our members helped the neighborhood council reform and reach out more 
> to the community.  Other than that, I don't know that we have much impacted 
> the neighborhood.
> 
> Mary English
> 
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