Let's recycle old houses | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Joaniblank (Joaniblankaol.com) | |
Date: Tue, 23 May 95 23:44 CDT |
The Oakland (CA) group may have the challenge of building on a downtown city block. At dinner tonight in Emeryville (Oakland's neighbor) I proposed the following to Katie: If this site works out, there will probably be commercial spaces on the ground floor with parking in the middle of the block under the common greenspace with the residences and maybe the common house too on the periperhery (second floor). My thought was that it would be neat to search out dilapidated and abandoned Victorians from all over Oakland, move them to the site and put them immediately adjacent to each other, with some even attached. The front porches would face in of course and since they would have to be totally new inside, the kitchens could be right in front in true cohousing spirit. Many of these small houses--there are literally hundreds of them around here--are already two units with the smaller, secondary unit on the ground floor. and the main door up 11 or 12 stairs. (Oaklanders, whadya think? Katie said it wouldn't necessarily be cheap even if we could get the land and the old houses for almost nothing from the city, but said she couldn't quickly think of a way to get the houses lifted up onto the second level--just a tad higher than yer typical foundation, right?
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Let's recycle old houses Joaniblank, May 23 1995
- Re: Let's recycle old houses Stuart Staniford-Chen, May 23 1995
- Re: Let's recycle old houses Mmariner, May 24 1995
- Re: Let's recycle old houses Tom Patton, May 24 1995
- Re: Let's recycle old houses Jeff Hobson, May 31 1995
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