Rocky Hill Cohousing

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Town/Small City

What we do

We have created a neighborhood that recaptures the essence of community, a human environment that fosters interconnectedness, safety, growth, and meaningful life. The physical environment serves the needs and enhances the well-being of the individuals and the community. We wish to live in harmonious relationship to our place on the earth.

Our cohousing neighborhood includes 28 homes (mostly duplexes) clustered around a common house. There are also five “associate member” (privately owned) houses built along the road leading into Rocky Hill Cohousing.
We own 28 acres and occupy nine; the remainder is forested.

Links:

  • http://rockyhillcohousing.org/
  • http://www.rockyhillcohousing.org/
  • Our Vision

    r r r Mission and Values r r r
    The Mission of Rocky Hill Co-Housing is to be a thriving community
    of neighbors, whose life together fosters connectedness,
    learning from each other and living lightly on the earth.
    We value and strive toward:
    1. Supporting and nurturing each community member, from infant to elder,
    and treating each other with kindness, compassion and respect.
    2. Welcoming people of diverse identities, including race, ethnicity, spirituality, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family composition and
    socio-economic status.
    3. Building relationships and connections through daily interactions, community meals, activities, celebrations, rituals, work and helping one another.
    4. Raising children together in community.
    5. A decision-making process that builds consensus by soliciting and valuing input from all, ensuring that everyone is heard and resulting in decisions
    that everyone can agree to live by.
    6. Resolving conflicts through honest, direct and respectful communication.
    7. Giving our care, time and work to ourselves, our families and homes,
    our community at Rocky Hill, the wider community and the world.
    8. Improving our collective and individual stewardship of the earth
    and minimizing our impact on the planet.
    9. Creating and maintaining an emotional and physical environment
    that encourages and supports mutual concern and well-being.
    approved january 9, 2010

    Our Mission

    r r r Mission and Values r r r
    The Mission of Rocky Hill Co-Housing is to be a thriving community
    of neighbors, whose life together fosters connectedness,
    learning from each other and living lightly on the earth.
    We value and strive toward:
    1. Supporting and nurturing each community member, from infant to elder,
    and treating each other with kindness, compassion and respect.
    2. Welcoming people of diverse identities, including race, ethnicity, spirituality, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family composition and
    socio-economic status.
    3. Building relationships and connections through daily interactions, community meals, activities, celebrations, rituals, work and helping one another.
    4. Raising children together in community.
    5. A decision-making process that builds consensus by soliciting and valuing input from all, ensuring that everyone is heard and resulting in decisions
    that everyone can agree to live by.
    6. Resolving conflicts through honest, direct and respectful communication.
    7. Giving our care, time and work to ourselves, our families and homes,
    our community at Rocky Hill, the wider community and the world.
    8. Improving our collective and individual stewardship of the earth
    and minimizing our impact on the planet.
    9. Creating and maintaining an emotional and physical environment
    that encourages and supports mutual concern and well-being.
    approved january 9, 2010

    • Community type
    • Cohousing
    • 66 Total members
    • Open to new members
    • Open to visitors
    • Open to volunteers
    Total
    66

    How to join

    Meet community via meeting and common meals and then purchase a unit that is for sale

    Basic expectations or agreements for members

    Primary decision-making authority

    • All Community Members Together

    The whole membership decides collectively.

    Governance structure

    • Collaborative/Horizontal

    Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

    Economic model

    • Independent Finances

    Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

    Economic scenarios for this community

    • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
    • There is a labor obligation
    • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

    Additional economic information

    Monthly fees/dues: Yes (amount not specified)
    Labor required: 2 hours/week
    Members with pre-existing debt: Yes
    guideline is 6 – 10 hours per month per adult

    monthly community fee

    Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

    Common House, Garden(s), Vehicle Share, Hot tub or hot springs, Large Scale Kitchen, Swingsets & play areas, sledding hill; woods with trails

    Frequency of communal meals

    • About once a week

    Substance use culture

    • Substance use appears in public spaces but no pressure
    • Religions
    • Christian
    • Buddhist
    • Jewish
    • Quaker
    • Unitarian Universalist

    Property status

    • Privately owned

    Setting

    • Town/Small City

    Smaller municipalities with local services but rural character.

    Self-produced energy

    • Up to 33%

    Energy sources used

    • Photovoltaic Solar

    Self-produced food

    • Up to 33%
    • Land area size
      28 acres

    Reviews

    Location

    • Massachusetts, United States

    Rocky Hill Cohousing

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