[Ponte Alto] URGENT Pennsic Encampment News

[ArtsofPalm at aol.com]

75 feet of space for common area that would include the space between the 
tents would not be enough no matter what people said or didn't say.  Besides, you 
can't apply the 75 feet to the perimeter of a tent, because people have all 
different sized tents and the allocation would be unfair.  Also, this type of 
allocation mostly only benefits the people near the tent and not the whole 
group, somewhat killing the concept of common area.

Last year, we taxed 100 feet.  This seemed to give us a good (but not 
excessive) amount of space for common area.  Remember that we also shared common area 
space with Stierbach last year, which helped us out.  Although we can hope to 
do this again this year, we cannot count on it.

It does seem to add up.  I know that I will probably need two ghosts to cover 
for my space.  But, for my vote, it is well worthwhile.  The common area last 
year got used extensively.  Being a Baronial encampment, we need extra space 
for Baronial activities and events.

In a message dated 5/25/2004 11:33:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ladymarsaili at yahoo.com writes:
OK -- I'm looking at the square footage calculator and do not understand why 
it's adding space when we've been told repeatedly that the three feet of space 
between the tents is supposed to come from the 75 feet of space being 'given 
back' for common area.  If that's not part of the common area, then what is 
it?  
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