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Comment by Christina Jordan

Author: Christina Jordan (158)
Date posted: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:35:25 PDT
Edited: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:35:54 PDT
Comment on: Village - Urban Planning (0)
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yes, Linda, a lot of the land we are currently mostly self-financing the clearing of is intended to be turned over to the school village. But the school village is not the only thing that will be developing on the Opok Farm landmass, which is HUGE. There really is enough land for everyone - on the land that's allocated to the school village they can do whatever they want, from scratch, as I thought it was supposed to be.

But there will also be other land within the Opok Farm landmass that's allocated to the family, the university, to WE Center Gulu, possibly to some commercial organic demonstration partners. All of those partners and more might be working on different kinds of organic and/or community learning philosophies. The school village is a more intentional long-term community within it's own space on the larger farm landmass, that will hopefully attract participants from the people involved in other activities at the farm.

The land we are looking at for the school village planning is next to (at the edge of) a large block of fields. The ridge area where we are planning the main farm office etc is in the middle of a lot of fields, so there is no room for a large amount of housing/processing unless we use the land that's already being used for agriculture for urban purposes.

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