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The town center is removed from its customary highway orientation and placed on a gentle forest hillside. Clustered townhouses, shops and production companies grow with the terrain and group themselves among public greens and plazas, big trees and stream. Wholesale commerce is served by an underground conveyor transport connecting the town center with a loading dock on the highway. A broad-based primary economy includes relocated small assembly and light production companies; a growth center and experimental college; writers, artists and craftsmen; and the rural production of crops and livestock. For each of these positions, several more niches are created in services within the town: shop keeper, baker, teacher, carpenter, doctor and so on. The honesty inherent in a face-to-face community replaces the rampant mutual exploitation found in large cities. Town incorporation facilitates self-government by town meeting, and makes all community services directly responsible to the townspeople. The public school becomes a child-centered free school- supported by the state instead of tuition. The school opens up to the town to provide child care and involve townspeople in the school's operation; and the town opens up its homes, businesses and surrounding forest to the children. The entire town becomes a learning community as children and adolescents can learn at first hand, and adults can exchange roles and apprentice part-time at one another's jobs. Other community activities include brining in music, films and speakers: a volunteer fire department; and community holidays and festivals. Most importantly, we seek more meaningful and fulfilling ways of living. We want a slower tempo that allows a deeper appreciation of people and nature. We want both the solitude of the forest and the warm life sense of the village. We're searching for ways to increase interpersonal contact and experimentation. We want the mutual concern and respect of real friendships; and we want to feel free to try new ways of relating, such as having secondary parents and homes for our children. Our ethic is one of freedom, cooperation, change and growth. We Need Your Participation We're building a new innovative community. Join us. We need your ideas and inputs, We've prepared a complete Town Prospectus describing the town plans, ideas and issues as they have been developed to date. Some phases are developed in great details-with photos, drawings and discussion at length. Other phases have only been identified or still need to be identified. Read through the Prospectus and let us hear your thoughts and reactions. We'll publish them-along with other new inputs from discussions and interviews-in a continuing wide-open forum that will chronicle the emerging ideas and actualities of the new town. Join us. Maybe we'll end up neighbors. Pahana Town Forum P.O. Box 4312 Santa Barbara, California 93103 Annual Membership: $5 Donation tax-deductible. Includes Town Prospectus and all subsequent Forum publications for one year Town Prospectus only: $1 Donation Name Address City, State, Zip Pahama is a non-profit organization. Memberships are offered in our Town Forum project. Donations will defer printing and mailing expenses.
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The town center is removed from its customary highway orientation and placed on a gentle forest hillside. Clustered townhouses, shops and production companies grow with the terrain and group themselves among public greens and plazas, big trees and stream. Wholesale commerce is served by an underground conveyor transport connecting the town center with a loading dock on the highway. A broad-based primary economy includes relocated small assembly and light production companies; a growth center and experimental college; writers, artists and craftsmen; and the rural production of crops and livestock. For each of these positions, several more niches are created in services within the town: shop keeper, baker, teacher, carpenter, doctor and so on. The honesty inherent in a face-to-face community replaces the rampant mutual exploitation found in large cities. Town incorporation facilitates self-government by town meeting, and makes all community services directly responsible to the townspeople. The public school becomes a child-centered free school- supported by the state instead of tuition. The school opens up to the town to provide child care and involve townspeople in the school's operation; and the town opens up its homes, businesses and surrounding forest to the children. The entire town becomes a learning community as children and adolescents can learn at first hand, and adults can exchange roles and apprentice part-time at one another's jobs. Other community activities include brining in music, films and speakers: a volunteer fire department; and community holidays and festivals. Most importantly, we seek more meaningful and fulfilling ways of living. We want a slower tempo that allows a deeper appreciation of people and nature. We want both the solitude of the forest and the warm life sense of the village. We're searching for ways to increase interpersonal contact and experimentation. We want the mutual concern and respect of real friendships; and we want to feel free to try new ways of relating, such as having secondary parents and homes for our children. Our ethic is one of freedom, cooperation, change and growth. We Need Your Participation We're building a new innovative community. Join us. We need your ideas and inputs, We've prepared a complete Town Prospectus describing the town plans, ideas and issues as they have been developed to date. Some phases are developed in great details-with photos, drawings and discussion at length. Other phases have only been identified or still need to be identified. Read through the Prospectus and let us hear your thoughts and reactions. We'll publish them-along with other new inputs from discussions and interviews-in a continuing wide-open forum that will chronicle the emerging ideas and actualities of the new town. Join us. Maybe we'll end up neighbors. Pahana Town Forum P.O. Box 4312 Santa Barbara, California 93103 Annual Membership: $5 Donation tax-deductible. Includes Town Prospectus and all subsequent Forum publications for one year Town Prospectus only: $1 Donation Name Address City, State, Zip Pahama is a non-profit organization. Memberships are offered in our Town Forum project. Donations will defer printing and mailing expenses.
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