Lora's th land_use_presentation

Nice areas: Entry drive Terraced side of cob garden Beds around 100 unit Shrub bed at east end of main building Beds along main building walkway Shade garden at community house Red maple tree

Overgrown, dense areas, and/or lacking understory vegetation: Front of main house Back slope of main house Along berm walkway Front terrace of main building North side of Unit 100

Optimizing level areas for human activity, stacking functions, flexible spaces

Providing covered areas to give protection from sun or rain to expand year round use

Optimizing sunny areas for growing food and flowering plants

Improving access to make paths easier and more accessible

Creating walking loops

Defining paths to reduce impacts to natural areas, and providing access to maintain and restore them

Vegetation management through pruning to rejuvenate, transplanting or replacement to open up space and light.

Restore understory layers of vegetation.

Establish areas that are OK for kids to play in nature

Item Green Yellow Kid Green Kid Yellow Total Notes

Fire pit/circle/place for gathering12 3 1 16

Create small, intimate gathering places for 2 or 3 people

(covered) 11 1 12

Kids access to nature play 5 2 2 3 12

Improve seating around cob bench 3 9 12

Create place to gather and cook or grill and dine outside

9 2 11

Grassy areas for play and hanging out; more open green

space 3 6 2 11

Accomodations for raising chickens 1 9 2 2

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Some community members strongly

opposed.

Kids wants: frog pond, tree house, tree swing, zip line1 2 4 5 12

Kids placed dots on individual items: tree

house (4); frog pond (1); zip line (3)

Better use of clothesline area 6 4 10

Named silent meditation/quiet spot 3 5 8

Comfortable accessable place on deck 5 3 8

More places to stop, sit and appreciate in quite 3 2 1 6

Create individual garden plots (i.e. community garden-

style) 2 3 5

One kid had a strong interest in this but

could not vote for it over other 2 choices.

More plants in courtyard to soften architecture; vertical

gardens 4 4

Provide place for community garden structures

(greenhouse, tool shed, compost, etc.) 4 4

More places to grow food (raised beds, portable

containers) 3 1 4

Improve quality of natural areas 3 3

Covered garbage/recycle area 3 3

Better accomodation for drying clothing outside 1 1

Trails away from erosion zones 1 1

Perhaps a cob oven 1 1

DOT VOTING- PRIORITIZATION OF COMMUNITY DESIRES - OCTOBER 5, 2013

…. And a quite spot to sit alone