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

[Liz Brown (clzbrown]

well Thomas, I’ll say Thanks!

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Thomas Lofft <tlofft [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Excerpted from Cohousing-L:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:34:11 -0400, Liz Brown <clzbrown [at] 
> rochester.rr.com> asked:
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> Does anyone have research or stories on how cohousers help improve their 
> neighborhoods, especially urban?
> Liz Brown
> Flower City
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:54:06 -0700, Tiffany Lee Brown <magdalen23 [at] 
> gmail.com> asked about Corollary 1: i would also be curious to hear about 
> negative impacts?
> I offer Corollary 2: Did anyone ever say 'thanks'?
> As an example, The Frederick Cohousing Partnership  spent five years planning 
> for our future community in Maryland to be a pedestrian scale cohousing 
> community in a convenient location with community sewer and water systems to 
> avoid community health risks and also avoid any ecological contamination. Our 
> final site selection in 1995 was a 27 acre farm on the edge of a rural 
> community, Libertytown, coincidentally next door to a 105 acre Regional Park, 
> planned for County ownership and operation for active recreation. Neither had 
> public sewer or water. However the 35 home subdivision across the road did 
> have a limited use community water system based on three local wells and a 
> small chlorinated package water treatment plant with inadequate pressure to 
> meet the peak demand of the existing subdivision.  The County also had a 
> local sewerage treatment plant which had sewer lines located too high in 
> elevation to serve either the low lying park or our site of choice. The Parks 
> & Recreation Dep
> artment had capital funds to develop recreation facilities, access road and 
> parking but none for sewer or water and planned to operate indefinitely on 
> port-a-johns. How can I fit a 3 year story into two paragraphs? We planned a 
> water system extension to serve Liberty Village from the existing subdivision 
> wells by designing, funding and building a 22,000 gallon pressurized standing 
> water tank to be established in the existing subdivision which optimized the 
> available water supply by providing reserves to meet peak demands for both 
> the subdivision and our newly planned community. We also planned, designed 
> and funded a sewerage system with a lift station and force main and located 
> it adjacent to the park property line with an easement so the Park Department 
> could connect a gravity sewer into our system extension. The park completed a 
> new concession and restroom facility with the funds that otherwise would have 
> only funded restrooms and a sewer treatment lift package of its own. The bea
> uty of working out a resolution of mutual problems with a neighbor is that 
> both parties may become better off at less expense than working on two 
> parallel less satisfactory alternatives. To the best of my knowledge, no one 
> in the older subdivision, the Parks Department, or county government ever 
> said, "Thanks." 
> Tom LofftLiberty Village, MD
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