Alex, I think we see the City more involved because of it. There has been discussion about how to get more staff to have it as an option. At one of our other sites having the interaction changed city requirements to allow people to run home based businesses. Most cities have ordinances that prevent the typical startup in your garage. The City of Chandler based on interaction with participants at Gangplank have created a way to get a zoning clearance to accommodate this.
http://www.chandleraz.gov/content/HomeBusinessApplication.pdf It still isn't flexible enough, but it is a start. -- Derek Neighbors Gangplank On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com>wrote: > Any interesting outcomes of that working arrangement worth sharing? > > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Derek Neighbors wrote: > > Alex, > > One of our Gangplank locations has City Staff (Economic Development) that > works out of the space once per week. > > -- > Derek > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Alex Hillman < > dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There have been threads about coworking spaces working with local > governments, and (I think) examples of city officials joining coworking > spaces…but I'm pretty excited about the fact that one of our members has > just been recruited as Philadelphia's first Chief Data Officer as part of > the city's push towards open data for citizens. > > > http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/08/13/mark-headd-first-ever-city-of-philadelphia-chief-digital-officer > > We've played an active role in that initiative, and a very vocal supporter > of some leaders in City Hall who have attempted to interact with the > community in a way that's a bit more coworking-like. Mark's made it a point > to say that he feels that in order for him to do this job effectively he > wants to maintain strong ties to the community that supported him up > through his appointment. > > Related, but separately, we're working on a program to invite city > officials/workers to work from Indy Hall once a month as an opportunity to > embed themselves in our community better as well > > This post is partially to share my personal excitement for this milestone > in OUR community, and wondering if anyone else has similar success stories. > > I know that Gangplank has a very tight relationship with their local gov't > and a number of other spaces have casual/functional relationships (a lot > like we've had up until this point), but I'm wondering mostly about > examples about embedding city officials in coworking spaces and vice/versa. > > -Alex > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
