PDF Land Search Announcement!

Short attention spans: Exciting news! We are looking for a new place to
host PDF, and want your feedback and help. Where do you live and how far
will you go? Read the complete announcement on the PONY forum or on
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/playa-del-fuego/new-land-search-is-on/190...
or just take this short survey: (
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfzDVstc7UAIFNvC2GM3z92YUPlLhh...)
to let us know what you think. We welcome suggestions for properties to
rent or purchase! Thanks.

Full announcement:

With the addition of some new people to the PDF Board of Directors last
Summer, we have been able to start addressing some of the backlog of tasks
the Board has on its plate.

In particular, the Board has reconvened the Land Search Committee, and
resumed the search for a piece of property on which to hold Playa Del Fuego
in the future. While the long-term goal is to purchase a piece of
property, we are also looking for property to rent in the short term. The
PDF community has expressed a growing desire to hold at least one of our
two annual events at a new location, so the Board has expanded the scope of
our search to include finding a rental venue to host PDF in Fall, 2017.

Selecting and securing a new venue in time for our Fall event this year is
ambitious, but certainly not impossible. To maximize the potential for
success, we'd like to lay out the plan, and invite your feedback and
participation.

The first round of tickets for Fall PDF normally goes on sale in mid July.
Wherever we’re going to hold the event, we need to have the venue secured
in time for participants to take the location into account and before
ticket sales start, so any rental agreement should ideally be in place no
later than, say, the first week of July. Negotiating an agreement and
acquiring any needed paperwork (insurance, permits, etc.) can take several
weeks. Working backward, we came up with a schedule of tasks and
deadlines, which is viewable here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
1zVxcSfurNn3XjhqTZj2J-k1qzRQFRTZMADnhkLE9VoU/edit?usp=sharing

If you just want to keep abreast of developments and contribute to the
public discussion, keep an eye on this forum. If you are interested in
participating with us in the Land Search project, read on.

So what’s next?

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We invite you to fill out this short survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfzDVstc7UAIFNvC2GM3z9
2YUPlLhhQPHAVJ-kGi3DhnerMw/viewform
.
Let us know a little about your travel to PDF, where you stand on the issue
of moving PDF to a new venue, and how active a role you'd like to play in
the process. The survey has fewer than 10 questions, and should only take
a minute or two to fill out.

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Visit the Search Criteria document https://docs.google.com/a/
playadelfuego.org/document/d/1-z2auJLQcundUaN_
hdIom6yTdAdfgdT95KNxz6MuXeM/edit?usp=sharing

and Site Report Form https://docs.google.com/forms/
d/e/1FAIpQLSel53kTTAvIo-YZdQ5NzbeOccBrO9yIv5Qtx5QryIilBTAgFA/viewform

to give us your take on what we’re looking for and the relative priorities
of the characteristics we're looking at, along with any feedback you think
will help improve the search. You can post your comments here, or better
yet email land@playadelfuego.org.

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We also welcome the community to suggest (or recommend) locations.
Remember that this search isn’t just for rental property for this Fall;
we’re also looking for a land to buy, so do let us know about any property
you think PDF might want to own.

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Depending on the candidate pool we are able to collect, we may seek help
from a real estate professional. In any case, we need to have narrowed the
search by the end of April to a shortlist of candidate locations. At that
point, we'll reach out to the community to help us make site visits and
file assessment reports.

If all goes according to plan (and why wouldn't it?), this brings us to the
end of May, and Spring PDF, when we'll review what we’ve accomplished,
revise the plan if necessary, and report on our progress.

If you have any questions or comments about the PDF Land Search, any
thoughts, suggestions, criticisms or warnings that you'd like to put
directly to the Board, please email land@playadelfuego.org.

PDF Board of Directors, Land Search Committee

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Ghandi

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