Re: cars as filters
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
Pedestrian orientation is a part of the great cohousing experiment, and for
those who don't mind the tradeoffs, the benefits are worth it. At
Sharingwood we have a mixed design, with one part of the community being
pedestrian, the other with cars right up to the homes. It is a mixed thing
for us with a few of the pedestrian home owners disliking and complaining
about that aspect of their home, while others like it a lot, and some of the
non-pedestrian home owners wishing their scene was different.

Like many aspects of cohousing, your site design will be part of a filter
which determines who will move there. There are folks who would never
consider living in a cohousing community because its too far to where their
car is. This is not a bad thing but it may limit certain groups like the
elderly or people with young children from buy a home for sale as they have
no experience and become convinced its not what they would want to do.
There are many such filters in place and when you market a home you will
become aware of them. And some of them might surprise you or even offend
you. We had a family choose not to live here because during a tour it became
clear that our group is very tolerant of gays and lesbians and we have these
folks living among us. I was glad it came up and kept this family from
moving here, it would have been an unpleasant relationship with them.  

 


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
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