Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Reaction to Adawehi webinar

[Deborah Nagle-Burks (deborahn2]

Thank you for voicing your opinion.  I too am disturbed and disappointed
that the haha “ecovillage” (misnamed for sure), thinks over 60 is too old
to be part of your faux community.

I hope many people will refuse to be involved in your ageist and elitist
community.

Beware the “divider” people.

Deborah Nagle-Burks

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM Thomas Chapel via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> The idea that cohousing must be multi generational i think is made up. I
> like the fact ours is but can imagine it working just as well as senior
> only or families only. To ME the big shift that defines cohousing is that
> people decide to live in community and share resources. You can convince me
> that this HAS to include age or any other kind of demog diversity but it
> will take some doing
>
> Tom Chapel
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 5:55 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> > > On Feb 27, 2026, at 5:13 PM, Linda Hobbet <coho [at] lindahobbet.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Most cohousing is multi-generational. I'm not sure why one would want
> to
> > prevent  children from being around elders by law.
> >
> > > We wanted to spend our limited finances on adult-oriented facilities,
> > but we are specifically 55+ because it made it possible for us to rezone
> to
> > build our homes closer. The city planners believe it results in less
> > traffic (I guess they didn't think about the parade of Amazon, UPS, and
> > other delivery trucks, LOL).
> >
> > One reason for the town planning board to limit open age housing is
> > schools. They don’t want to have to build more schools. They  like elders
> > because they put fewer stresses on the community. No gang activity. No
> bar
> > room brawls. No foster care & less social services— not sure this last
> one
> > is true but my office once shared a building with social service agencies
> > and the building was overrun with children.
> >
> > The restriction of 55+ means you are “not encouraging” the age group on
> > either side of 21 which commits the most crime.
> >
> > Sharon
> > ----
> > Sharon Villines
> > Riderwood Village, Silver Spring MD
> > Founding member for 25 years in Takoma Village, Washington DC
> >
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