Cohousing-L Mailing List: Formation meeting in Amherst, MA

[alex . m . kent (alex.m.kent]

A formation meeting for a small cohousing community in the Amherst, 
Massachusetts area is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2009, 10:00-12:00 at 
the Jones Library in downtown Amherst. 


While there are several thriving cohousing communities in the 
Amherst/Northampton area, we are proposing a smaller-scale community with 
around 8 units connected by covered walkways to a common house. In contrast to 
other communities, individual units would be smaller than the common house 
would serve a more clearly defined function as a common living room for all 
members. We believe that one of the defects of cohousing