{"id":89,"date":"2013-03-08T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2013-03-08T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:14:00","slug":"dragonfly-cohousing-project-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/dragonfly-cohousing-project-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly Cohousing Project Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/dfcupdate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I attended my first cohousing meeting October 8, 2009, about a year after this project was initiated. Amber and I became equity members on October 14, 2010. So much has happened since (land purchase, development permit), but in the last few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>building documents are being drafted with a building permit application going in in the next week or so<\/li>\n<li>33 of the 36 units are sold<\/li>\n<li>our group of equity members have put together just over $4 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nMy role in all of this has been in the membership\/marketing team. I led an online media campaign on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DragonflyCohousing\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFCohousing\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;for the month of February including remaking the <a href=\"http:\/\/dragonflycohousing.ca\/\">website on WordPress<\/a> and producing a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/dragonflycohousing\/dragonflycohousing01\">video<\/a> (and another that I just haven&#8217;t felt too pressured to finish). I got to see the relevance of online advertising and creating a content calendar. I also got to see that it is quite easy.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nWe hope to have a mighty machines on the ground in early May with a move-in date approximately 12 months later.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended my first cohousing meeting October 8, 2009, about a year after this project was initiated. Amber and I became equity members on October 14, 2010. So much has happened since (land purchase, development permit), but in the last few months: building documents are being drafted with a building permit application going in in &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/dragonfly-cohousing-project-update\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,13,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-89","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-calgary","9":"category-cohousing","10":"category-finance","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}