East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

March 28, 2010 12:30 PM - 6 attended

SF Backyard Neighborhood & Learning Center Meeting: Goals/Sharing Planning

Observers will be welcome at this meeting, but only the members may take part in decision making. Members will be available to answer questions and listen to comments during the first and last 15 minutes (12:30 to 12:45 and 2:45 to 3:00), and at least one member can stay after 3:00.

This meeting will be mostly of interest to families who unschool their children and would like to live close to other such families in San Francisco, but it may also be of interest to other people who support self-directed learning and would like to live in cohousing where there are many children playing/learning in the common area every day.

At the February meeting, we drafted a vision statement:

"Our vision is to create a cohousing community in the heart of San Francisco where children are self-directed learners. We value diversity, social and ecological responsibility, mutual learning, and joy."

At the March meeting, we plan to draft specific goals to supplement that statement, and we may begin answering "20 Questions to Ask When You Share" from The Sharing Solution, co-authored by local cohouser/attorney Janelle Orsi. In the coming months, we hope to hire a lawyer who specializes in SF TICs and begin searching for property with good potential for shared backyards.

Children will be welcome at the meeting as long as they are not very loud. (We recently learned that there is an operating room above our meeting room.) If the children get too loud or restless, parents could take them to the park across the street.

The suggested donation at the door will be $2 per person for the meeting space.

For more information, see sfbackyard.wordpress.com.

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Kelly Simpson
SF backyard-neighborhood community organizer

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Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

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