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

[Liz Brown (clzbrown]

We’ve had to assure folks that we’ll be neither a commune nor a gated community


> On Apr 12, 2016, at 12:15 PM, castrohom--- via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
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> 
> 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>  
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>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Mary English <mary.english [at] hsc.utah.edu> 
>> wrote:
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>> 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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