Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: [C-L]Traffic Studies

[Diane Simpson (coho]

This is from the Spring 2002 issue of Terrain Magazine:

"In a 1996 study, Australiain architect Dr. Graham Meltzer examined the 
social and environmental sustainability of 18 cohousing communities.  
meltzer found that, overall, cohousing residents owned fewer cars tan 
they did before living in cohousing, and were more actively involved in 
recycling and composting."

also:

"According to a UA EPA-funded study of the Nyland cohousing community 
in Colorado, residents made 25% fewer car trips per household than the 
residents of adjacent condominiums and single-family housholds."

Terrain Magazine is published by the Ecology Center,  2530 San Pablo 
Avenue, Berkely California, 94702.

--Diane
JP COHOUSING  617-524-6614
P.O. BOX 420 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
HTTP://WWW.JPCOHOUSING.ORG


On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 11:54 AM, Kim Shute wrote:

> Hello
> Are there any cohousing communities that have had traffic studies 
> done? We talk a lot about how there are less car trips per day and 
> people like to stay home more and people work from home more, but has 
> anyone actually studied it so we can prove it to, oh say a town board?
>
> Kim Shute, Mosaic Commons
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