Re: Informal and Planned Use of Common House | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Jim Snyder-Grant (jimsgnewview.org) | |
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 06:43:04 -0600 (MDT) |
Becky from Sonora cohousing asked: "How much does your common house get used for infomal events?..." -A few times a week for ping pong (all ages) or Foosball (mostly preteens). -Once a week or so, the after-dinner hang-out goes on so long I'd call it a separate event. That's a combination of adults and some teens hanging out talking & kids in various places inside & outside the commonhouse playing. -During the school year, there have been clusters of times (a few times a month?) when small collections of teens get together to do homework projects in the CH. -Occaisonally I go down to the CH for a cup of tea and some reading when my wife is napping in the late afternooon, on the weekends. Perhaps others do something similar - it's a pretty invisible activity. -There's a woodshop in the basement that gets used by the authorized users for projects at various times. Jim Snyder-Grant jimsg [at] newview.org 18 Half Moon Hill Acton MA 01720 New View Cohousing http://www.newview.org -Where we are starting to conspire to have the Jamaica Plain (Boston) cohousing group have its common house programming session here in July, with Chris ScottHanson. -Where a neighbor recently had laser eye surgery, and groups of us sat around at various meals, hearing all the cool & gross details. -Where we recently discovered yet another way of making the smoke alarms go off in the CH, which automatically summons the fire department - have a couple of smoky grills outside the kitchen, on the porch, with the doors open & the wind in the right direction. -Where we are discussing a proposal to color-code the parking spaces: red = reserved for particular households. Yellow = reserved for residents. Green = vistor parking. Parking is a big deal here - it limits what we can use the CH for (or makes it tricky), and it limits how many extra residents-with-cars we could have. Resident households are guaranteed two parking spots, but there's not a lot of slack beyond that. Our permits, our topography, and our preferences all prevent us from paving much more than we have _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Thanks and Informal and Planned Use of Common House Becky Schaller, June 12 2001
- Re: Informal and Planned Use of Common House Jim Snyder-Grant, June 13 2001
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