Upcoming Events

Date Time Location Agenda
March 28 10 to 6 Polk County Convention Complex 2009 Natural Living Expo
March 29 12 to 5 Polk County Convention Complex 2009 Natural Living Expo

Past Events

January - March 2009 - Ongoing development of LLC

November 19, 2008 - Meet with lawyer

November 16, 2008 - Review bylaws; plan meeting with lawyer

October 26, 2008 - Review bylaws; discuss consultants

October 5, 2008 - Continue drafting bylaws

September 14, 2008 - Start drafting bylaws

August 26, 2008 - Core team meeting

August 18, 2008 - Visited open house at Full Circle Farm

August 17, 2008 - Core team meeting

August 14, 2008 - Presented our concept to the Granger City Council

August 6, 2008 - Presented our concept to the Granger Planning and Zoning Board

July 23, 2008 - Met with Dale Sorensen, Granger city engineer

May 28, 2008 - Met with Bret Vandelune, Polk County Land Use Planning Manager

April 17, 2008 - Initial consultation with attorney, Amy Beattie

January 23, 2008 - Core team meeting

December 13, 2007 - Met with RDG Landscape architect, Doug Adamson, and potential developer, Fritz Trost

November 16, 2007 - Visit to IAMU (Iowa Association of Municiple Utilities). We visited this site because of their green building and land use for water handling, etc.

November 11, 2007 - Received initial estimate for master plan from Doug Adamson


Initial brainstorming meetings

October 14, 2007 - Presentation by RDG landscape architect, Doug Adamson (Details)

September 23, 2007 - Established name of group; drafted Vision Statement (Details)

July 21, 2007 - Meeting at Turtle Farm (Details)

Vision

To preserve Turtle Farm by creating a model of a diverse, sustainable, cohousing community.


Links

Cohousing.org

RDG Planning & Design

Turtle Farm CSA


Articles

Cohousing: what's so UU about it?


Contact Us

Angela Tedesco

Nancy Rambo