TheNew Chautauqua

Project

The New Chautauqua Project provides small, independent, equity cooperative transitional shelter communities within the intersection of the

needs for both personal space and community belonging for the homeless, low and moderate-income families and young adults.

We create human design-centric cooperative intentional communities within a self-governing cooperative ownership financial structure, in a

sharing, local economy.

The New Chautauqua Project

Mission Statement

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Project Eco-Villages

The Tiny Home Eco-Villages become more sustainable as regulatory roadblocks are removed by interdisciplinary teams of city planners and utility providers who work expeditiously under health emergency mandates to implement appropriate health, safety and welfare standards appropriate to the need to reduce homelessness. Economies of scale will also improve as many Colorado based tiny home manufacturing plants scale up to meet the increased demand for the homes.

Although a synergy of support from existing homeless and community housing providers is necessary and encouraged, as the eco-villages become more internally self-governed the need for traditional social service provider support will be minimized as residents build their resiliency and self-supportive personal responsibility and ownership skills.

Several cities nationwide have declared states of emergencies to deal with the crisis of homelessness in anticipation of the need for new solutions for housing the homeless. We are engaging Boulder’s Human Rights Commission and City Council to follow suit in Boulder. Many successful tiny home communities are sprouting up nationwide. This solution complements existing affordable housing solutions.

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Project Eco-Villages

This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on the recently abandoned Boulder Community Hospital site near Mapleton and 9th Streets. It includes all the essential ingredients of an eco-village, including an active commons, public promenade, community center, and Agora information kiosk. It also features pop-up campers that may be used as temporary summer housing for tiny home owners/renters as housing while their homes are rented to Airbnb guests, providing an important source of income for village residents.

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Project Eco-Villages

This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on Pine Street between 13 th and 14th Street on a smail parcel owned by Boulder County, currently used for parking. Assuming that the City and County can cooperatively utilize nearby parking structures for the County vehicles to make room for this Eco-Village created to provide homes for the homeless community now living downtown. As with other villages, this community will include a commons, community center and public promenade. The particular character of this village might revolve around art and artists, providing gallery space and public art space as well as an interactive kiosk displaying works of art for sale and for rent.

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Project Eco-Villages

This is a conceptual rendering of an eco-village located on a parcel owned by a small Boulder faith community. Most of the essential physical ingredients of the Eco-Village are shown, including the commons, greenhouse community center, jobs and information kiosk, promenade and of course tiny homes, small dignified hermitages for individuals to live temporarily in prayer, reflection and safety.

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Balsam Eco-Village

This is an aerial perspective rendering of the Balsam Eco-Village, looking southeast. North Boulder Park and 9 th Street are in the lower-right foreground, Balsam Street in the lower-left foreground and the existing soon to be abandoned Boulder Community hospital buildings. There is a wonderful evergreen hedge located along the northern, Balsam Street boundary of the village that will provide a good separation from the adjacent neighborhood. Note that the village will have its own heliport.

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Project Balsam Eco-Village

This is a conceptual rendering of the Balsam eco-village located on a parcel owned by the City of Boulder, on the site of the former Boulder Community Hospital. The site is west of Broadway, adjacent to North Boulder Park. The colorful campers can be located on the site during the warm summer season, intended for the occupants of the village’s tiny homes to rent their homes via an Airbnb type platform, providing them some income to help get them through tough, high energy bill winters. This will also make room for summer New Chautauqua guests who come to Boulder to enjoy our mountain summers

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Project Eco-Villages

Named in response to the typical “Not In My Backyard” response to new development, Y!MBY stands for “YES! In My Backyard”. One of the primary barriers to the implementation of these Eco-Villages is the unfounded fear of the neighbors that will be residing in these intentional communities. Concerned citizens living near and adjacent to the projects are justifiably concerned about the presence of those who are homeless living in their neighborhoods. Considerable neighborhood education is required to allay these fears, including neighbors of other communities who now house homeless who understand their plight and are confident that the self-governing villages can actually be a wonderful addition to their neighborhood.

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Campaign

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Chautauqua Project

We are currently seeking impact investors to each purchase one Class A Membership Share for $5,000, which will provide them with membership in the cooperative and access to our members-only investment website. The initial funds will be used for start-up expenses, including up-front costs for our first event. Revenue from the events and projects will be retained for a savings account of all Class A Shares and expected operating expenses for the next year. If profit is generated from programs each year, it may be paid out equally to members.

Members will then have the opportunity to further invest in The NCP through the purchase of Class B Preferred Shares. The NCP will make investments in New Chautauqua projects. Repayment of loans, interest, and profit sharing will be consolidated. Some will be reinvested and some disbursed to members with each Class B share earning an equal amount. Members will be given the opportunity to sell their shares to other members including residents of the New Chautauqua Communities, which may sell for more than the original share price.

Besides the potential for yearly profit disbursements, members will be largely investing in New Chautauqua community held assets including well-constructed homes, while spreading their risk over multiple projects. Members will also be part of a statewide community, getting an inside look at how projects are progressing, and having the opportunity to partake in amazing educational programs.

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Chautauqua Project

The New Chautauqua Eco-Villages reignite the social DNA found in the original Colorado Chautauqua communities, founded with the largess of philanthropists and supported financially by Chautauqua programs and housing rent, which combined the arts and humanities in intentional communities. Likewise, New Chautauqua communities will celebrate the growth self-sustainability of the common person in a commons oriented eco-village, self-governed by its residents.

Using MIT’s Presencing Institute’s Theory U and its local ULab prototyping structure, the collective wisdom of community residents is being solicited to provide a cooperative financial system that better serves a generative sharing economy. Democratic Internet based platforms such as Airbnb, Loconomics, a shared ownership platform for freelancing professionals, Fairmondo, a cooperative owned alternative to eBay and Amazon and Stocksy, an artist owned cooperative are to be utilized. A Pattern Language for the design and implementation of these communities is currently being developed.

This project’s energy and influence is based on the convergence of a current real estate market fascination with tiny homes, the current crisis in homelessness, the availability of underutilized city-owned parking lots, and the spiritual underpinnings of a society yearning to be engaged in providing care for the less fortunate.

TheNew Chautauqua

ProjectCall To Action

It is the recommendation of The New Chautauqua Project that the City and County of Boulder declare a state of emergency, allowing for staff and financial resources to be made available immediately to allow the quick implementation of these important intentional communities.

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New Chautauqua Wellness &

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Guild

New Chautauqua Communities Public Benefit Cooperative (PBC)

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Arts & Culture• The arts and cultural

expression are an essential pattern of community life

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Pattern Language

Eco-Villages• Energetic community

is a source of individual health

• Aesthetics are a symbol and indication of community health

• Villages must be accessible to all those with disabilities

• Active common spaces are an essential pattern of community design

Wellness & Spiritual Life• Mindfulness,

meditation and prayer practiced personally and in community develops both.

• Welcoming all faith practices is essential in living a healthy, spiritual life.

• Spiritual life needs to be celebrated with liturgy and song.

Governance• Participatory

democracy is essential in creating and sustaining successful village life.

• Visionary Cooperativism is a primary source of community abundance and wellbeing

• Community wisdom should be elicited at every turn

Jobs, Exchange & Finance• Trade will be

accomplished within the ethos of sharing and abundance, not greed and scarcity.

DesignGuild

• Good design and design thinking are fundamental to the success of sustainable community

New Chautauqua Communities Public Benefit Cooperative (PBC)

Education & Programs• Life long learning and

community programs enrich lives and foster village evolution

• Face-to-face Learning in community is important

TheNew

Chautauqua Project Team

Our team is conducting a housing design charrette to thoughtfully solicit (and pay for) the advice from folks who are currently homeless. We are planning our first neighborhood gathering to solicit ideas from the Boulder community for our first prototype New Chautauqua Eco-Village community on a city owned parcel of land in Boulder at the request of a Boulder City Councilperson.

Ariane Burgess coaches and consults

with organizations and

individuals on

community based projects including cohousing initiatives. She teaches integrative design on Gaia Education’s Design for Sustainability and Eco-village Design Education. She currently lives in the Findhorn Eco-Village, Scotland. Ariane is NCP’s teacher, consultant, and advisor.

Alexis Neely is a new economy finance

expert and serial entrepreneur.

Alexis appears as a financial counselor on numerous top-rated television shows, and lives a new economy life in community with her former husband, kids and extended family. Alexis is NCP’s economic consultant and advisor.

Morey Bean, Serving as the

New Chautauqua Project Co-founder

and Director, honored as Colorado’s

Architect of the Year in 1999 for his service to community, has over 30 years of experience in community design and real estate development, including his role as real estate development partner in the $60 Million Lowell Neighborhood, a New Urbanism, Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) in a Downtown Colorado Springs Urban Renewal area. He has conducted several community design Charrettes and is developing NCP’s Eco-Village Pattern Language.

Jacki Saorsail is an Event Planner,

Community Organizer, and Cooperative

Consultant. She has been working with cooperatives

and community organizations for over a decade. She founded a non-profit that established three housing cooperatives and was the Vice President for Producers of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative.

Jason Weiner is an attorney

providing expertise to social

enterprises and mission-driven

business. Jason’s specialty

is in sharing economy law, social and regenerative enterprise, public benefit corporations, employee-ownership and cooperatives. Jason is NCP’s cooperative governance advisor.

Mekayla Ichneumon Beaver is a

design thinker and researcher for project teams,

helping coach organizations to build new processes and skills around human-centered innovation. Her focus is on bringing positive change to the world through the design of services, programs, spaces, and products.

Bret Noecker is a tech junkie who lived in a

Winnebago for most of the 90’s. “I love tiny

homes and tiny lifestyles and there is something special about cooking a lasagna at 65mph.” He is a serial entrepreneur deploying a unique wastewater treatment facility and designing vertical farming systems to support local food production.

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