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When community projects reveal incompatible visions of purpose

Our community garden has become divided between people who want it to be a food source for the neighborhood and people who want it to be a beautiful gathering space and we keep having meetings where everyone's polite but nothing gets resolved. I think we're all afraid that choosing sides means someone has to lose completely.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fear of exclusion can prevent communities from making necessary choices about priorities, leaving everyone partially unsatisfied.

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