The document provides information on landscaping priorities and projects for an eco-village community. It lists areas that are nice and well-maintained, as well as overgrown areas needing attention. It then outlines priorities from community members for improving outdoor spaces, as indicated by dot voting, including creating a fire pit gathering area, more open green spaces, and kids' nature play areas. The notes section provides additional context around some of the priorities.

9. Nice areas:
Entry drive
Terraced side of cob garden
Beds around 100 unit
Shrub bed at east end of main building
Beds along main building walkway
Shade garden at community house
Red maple tree

10. Overgrown, dense areas, and/or
lacking understory vegetation:
Front of main house
Back slope of main house
Along berm walkway
Front terrace of main building
North side of Unit 100

12.  Optimizing level areas for human activity, stacking
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functions, flexible spaces
Providing covered areas to give protection from sun or rain
to expand year round use
Optimizing sunny areas for growing food and flowering
plants
Improving access to make paths easier and more accessible
Creating walking loops
Defining paths to reduce impacts to natural areas, and
providing access to maintain and restore them
Vegetation management through pruning to rejuvenate,
transplanting or replacement to open up space and light.
Restore understory layers of vegetation.
Establish areas that are OK for kids to play in nature

13. DOT VOTING- PRIORITIZATION OF COMMUNITY DESIRES - OCTOBER 5, 2013
Item
Fire pit/circle/place for gathering
Green
Yellow
Kid Green
Grassy areas for play and hanging out; more open green
space
Accomodations for raising chickens
3
11
5
3
1
2
9
9
Create small, intimate gathering places for 2 or 3 people
(covered)
Kids access to nature play
Improve seating around cob bench
Create place to gather and cook or grill and dine outside
12
6
9
1
6
3
5
3
2
4
5
3
2
Total
2
3
1
Kid Yellow
1
16
2
12
12
12
3
11
2
2
2
4
5
Kids wants: frog pond, tree house, tree swing, zip line
Better use of clothesline area
Named silent meditation/quiet spot
Comfortable accessable place on deck
More places to stop, sit and appreciate in quite
Create individual garden plots (i.e. community gardenstyle)
More plants in courtyard to soften architecture; vertical
gardens
Provide place for community garden structures
(greenhouse, tool shed, compost, etc.)
More places to grow food (raised beds, portable
containers)
Improve quality of natural areas
Covered garbage/recycle area
Better accomodation for drying clothing outside
Trails away from erosion zones
Perhaps a cob oven
Notes
1
11
Some community members strongly
14 opposed.
Kids placed dots on individual items: tree
12 house (4); frog pond (1); zip line (3)
10
8
8
6
3
4
2
One kid had a strong interest in this but
5 could not vote for it over other 2 choices.
4
4
3
4
1
3
3
1
1
1
4
3
3
1
1
1

35. …. And a
quite spot
to sit alone