A momentous decision

After more than two years working to establish Raccoon Creek Community
with my fellow members, it has become clear to me that the community,
as we have envisioned it these past years, cannot become a reality on
the site in Owen County, Indiana, at least not within a reasonable
time frame, one much longer than I can accept, nor without further
compromises on waste treatment and perhaps other areas.

Over the next few weeks I will explain some of the reasoning used to
arrive at this difficult decision on a new blog.

We have put our hearts and souls into the project. Much work has been
done on and off the site, many meetings have been held there and
elsewhere, and much of the property was walked many times and marked
for various purposes. Walking away from the beautiful site at Raccoon
Creek is not easy.

The property will revert to Marion, our member who owned it to begin
with. Disposition of other assets, especially the large barn-to-be
will be decided over the next few weeks.

I hope Marion will still build on the site. It is currently zoned
"agricultural" which allows at least a single home to be built on it
with no further permissions needed.

I invite you to read about what we are doing now at
http://greeneviewsprings.blogspot.com. Your comments are welcome, but please send them to me at mailto:ed.paynter@gmail.com. This is my last post on this blog.