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Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years

Seems like everyone is talking abut Damanhur lately. Sounds like a pretty amazing place.

Honored by the United Nations in 2005 as a model for a new sustainable society, this extraordinary community in northern Italy was founded in 1975 as a center of art and spirituality; and an experimental model of environmental and socioeconomic sustainability.

Today over 1,000 people live and work in Damanhur's 40 villages, many in "group" homes where 12 or more people - related or not - divvy up chores and share meals at enormous tables. This sort of togetherness would make many Americans downright surly! But every one of the Damanhurians I met was disarmingly happy and quick to laugh.

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According to an article in the Auburn Journa;, the city council of Auburn, CA is proposing to set aside some property for cohousing.

This is likely the work of Auburn Cohousing but the article never mentions them.

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Neighbors are suing the city of Boulder, CO for changing zoning to allow a cohousing development called Washington Village. The cohousing community is being planned by Wonderland Hill Development Company

Jim Leach, president of Wonderland Hill, said the timing of the lawsuit couldn't be worse. He said he's been working with nearby property owners to try and address their concerns, and has even offered to redesign a portion of the project to better accommodate residents in the Red Arrow Townhomes, which sit north of the site.

He also said he's been trying to work with neighbors to find ways of raising money to convert one or two parcels that are currently slated to be single-family homes into a small park site, but hasn’t received any response.

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From the comments on this article things sound like they are getting nasty.

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Fox News local affiliate in St.Louis, MO had this spot on their evening news this week.

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I thought it was a very positive portrayal and for the most part accurate (of course I am biased since I live at DR).

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