Re: Car share club | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: C.C. Barron (ccbarron![]() |
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:58:01 -0700 (MST) |
There's a lot of great information on car sharing at http://www.carsharing.net/ Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), this idea hasn't caught on in Texas yet :-( Maybe our future cohousing neighborhood will host the first in Texas, who knows? As a suburban cohousing project, we can't rely on public transportation, but we would very much like to reduce the number of cars we have, and carsharing sounds like the right mechanism to do so. Here's a quote from a recent article (the first one on the website above, actually), that made me think (again) how synergistic this idea is for cohousing: "...shared-use vehicle organizations and automakers have collaborated with housing developers in recent years to implement carsharing in planned communities and multifamily housing complexes. Through such partnerships, stakeholders have discovered mutual benefits: 1) developers receive parking variances that allow them to construct more housing with fewer dedicated parking spaces, optimizing their returns, and 2) vehicle providers realize increased market share from residential communities. Several examples of this already exist. City CarShare has partnered with developers to locate cars within tenant garages. In spring 2002, Zipcar launched carsharing services at an elderly home in Greenburg, Maryland. In addition, General Electric Motors (GEM), a DaimlerChrysler company, is working with planned communities to incorporate shared neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) into their designs in California." ... from "Shared-Use Vehicle Services" by Susan Shaheen, PhD, Cal Berkeley sashaheen [at] path.berkeley.edu I know the parking spaces and sharing stuff are common threads that have been discussed in the cohousing community. Have any cohousing groups actually explored a carsharing partnership like this? Please let me know if you have. In addition to my work on cohousing, I serve on the city council commission in Austin that governs such things as energy conservation and renewable energy, so I'm looking into ways the city government can encourage car sharing here. A couple of instances of local government providing grants to carshare start-ups are mentioned (but not named) in that same article -- I haven't located who or where those were yet. If you have tried to do carsharing and needed help from your city government, let me know what it was you needed -- maybe we could put it in place in Austin. Blessings, Cat Barron Oak Village Commons -- Sustainable Living in Community Austin, TX http://www.oakhillcohousing.org Raines Cohen wrote: > On 11/11/02 9:37 AM, Jeanne Goodman <GoodmanJ [at] jpcohousing.org> wrote: > > >We are considering a car share club for our community. Does anyone have > >experience with car share clubs with some advice of things we should or > >shouldn't do? > > Jeanne - > > First, build and move into your community. THEN worry about things like > carsharing, meal sharing, shopping for each other, lending things, doing > social things together, supporting your neighbors... build it gradually > and naturally, don't try to do it all at once. Do reach out to FlexCar or > your local car share operator about siting a car in your area or at least > briefing the group and assessing the interest. > > My neighbor Joani and I (as profiled in the latest Cohousing Journal) > share an electric car; there has been some additional informal > sharing/borrowing occasionally, and one other neighbor has gotten rid of > her car (and occasionally rents out the space to neighbors or has it > available for visiting family or friends). > > CityCarShare now has a station wagon right outside our front gate, so > that's available when we need it, for the several members here. > > http://www.citycarshare.org/ > > Raines > (catching up on an old thread that recently revived) > > Raines Cohen <my initials,2,dash,coho,dash,L at my first name .com> > > Member, Swan's Market Coho [Oakland, CA] <http://www.swansway.com/> > Where I'm co-cooking a "clean-out-the-freezer" common dinner tonight. > > Facilitator, East Bay Cohousing [on hiatus] <http://www.ebcoho.org/> > Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. > > Boardmember, The Cohousing Network <http://www.cohousing.org/> > Poring over many applications for the design and pubs jobs. > > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list > Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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