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The Yarrow Ecovillage is an intentional community in Yarrow, British Columbia, Canada. Yarrow is a settlement of 3,000 population within the municipal boundaries of Chilliwack, British Columbia. Chilliwack City Council approved the plans, granting "Ecovillage zoning" in 2006. In January 2012, the Ecovillage had 50 residents (seventeen of whom were children) in the half-built multigenerational cohousing community ("Groundswell Cohousing").〔Fineberg, Jennifer (January 20, 2012). (Location changed for Friday night lecture by co-housing expert Chuck Durrett ). ''Chilliwack Progress''. Retrieved on: 2012-03-04.〕 The organic farm has been in operation since 2003. In January 2014, Groundswell Cohousing at the Yarrow Ecovillage was awarded the “Sustainability Leadership Award” by the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce at the 19th Annual Business Excellence Awards.〔Slingerland, G. (January 25, 2014). ("... and the award goes to..." ). Fabmar Communications: myhilliwacknews.com〕 ==History== Interest in sustainable settlements increased in the 1990s. In 1991, Robert Gilman and Diane Gilman co-authored a study called "Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities" for Gaia Trust. That led to a conference with the same title in Findhorn, Scotland, in 1995. According to Ross Jackson, co-founder of Gaia Trust, "somehow they had struck a chord that resonated far and wide. The word 'ecovillage', which was barely four years old at the time, thus became part of the language of the Cultural Creatives."〔Jackson, Ross (Summer, 2004). ("The Ecovillage Movement." ) ''Permaculture Magazine'' 40. Retrieved on: 2011-08-11.〕 In the late 1990s a group formed to consider the idea of building an ecovillage in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. That led to the purchase of a former dairy farm in Yarrow in 2002.〔Hale, Michael (May, 2008). (How Yarrow Ecovillage Got "Ecovillage Zoning." ) ''Ecovillages Newsletter'', Diana Leafe Christian, ed. Retrieved on: 2012-03-04.〕 The farm was originally owned by the Heinrichs family, who purchased it from Chauncey Eckert soon after the village of Yarrow was founded. The Yarrow group grew rapidly from six founding members. The Yarrow Ecovillage Society (YES) Cooperative was formed in August, 2002 and the members engaged in a series of activities to conceptualize and design the ecovillage. Their "co-design" process, initiated that October, consisted of three steps: 1) brainstorming workshops within the group, 2) consultation with City officials, and 3) public meetings with the local community. They repeated these three steps several times. This served to build support with the City planning staff and in the neighbouring community.〔 Following the consultation process, the ecovillage submitted its request for rezoning. The rezoning process occurred in two stages. The first, approved in August, 2004, was a commercial-residential zone on a small parcel of the property on Yarrow Central road. This allowed for a mix of retail businesses and residences above them. The second stage, approved in July, 2006, rezoned the remaining five acres formerly zoned “rural residential” to an “ecovillage zone.” This increased the land’s maximum density from 5 to 40, or more, residences. Chilliwack Mayor Clint Hames called this “the first ecovillage zone in Canada.”〔 The ecovillage purchased its first commercial entity, the Yarrow Deli, located on a neighbouring property, in October 2006.〔 With the achievement of Ecovillage zoning in 2006, work began on roads and infrastructure. Two timber frame duplexes were started in 2008, but construction was halted when the worldwide financial crisis tightened up credit and delayed a major construction loan. Construction on the duplexes resumed in early 2009 and the first was completed in August, 2009. In January 2010, a new site plan was completed.〔 The plan included two cohousing communities, the first of which, Groundswell Cohousing was to be a total 31 (later expanded to 33) units to be completed in 2014.〔Konevski, A. (Jul 18, 2013) (Housing capacity to double at Ecovillage ). ''Chilliwack Progress.''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yarrow Ecovillage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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