Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: washrooms (smoke and guns)

[S Brian Burke (sbrianburke]

What province are you in, Leslie?  Quayside Village in Vancouver, B.C. has 
one W/C ( British English, not American English--for water closet, i.e. 
washroom)in the Common House.  Cohousing, not being a restaurant or hotel 
with lots of visitors, is more like "a large house".  Second washrooms can 
be accessed on the same floor, in one of the friendly residents' units, if 
need be!  Our C/H W/C also has a wheel chair accessible shower.

I'm relieved we don't have the guns issue "in our face" in Canada!  (not a 
right in the Constitution--uncommon for common people to own guns--)

As for smoking, we're in fairly close quarters (urban cohousing) and found 
we had to deal with the issue upon move-in, when workers' smoke drifted into 
a nursing mother's window.  Our concensus at the time determined that 
smoking in any outdoor common area that bothered another person was not 
allowed.  Of course, that means that the one who is bothered needs to speak 
to the person smoking. (Smoking indoors in public places is against the law 
in Vancouver, so it's not an issue in the Commmon House.)   As members have 
left and new ones arrived, I notice some people have been ignoring our clean 
air policy (smoke drifts from the courtyard up to the fourth floor on 
occasion).  That has prompted me to get going on our Guide for newcomers!

We have units for sale, here in temperate coastal B.C.
See canadian cohousing website:  www.cohousing.ca

Keep breathing!

Linda
Quayside Village
North Vancouver, B.C.
Canada



> From: Chris ScottHanson <chris [at] cohousingresources.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> To: Cohousing-l <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_washrooms - 2 required in commonhouse?
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:53:28 -0800
>
> on 10/28/02 8:33 AM, Leslie Myers wrote:
>
> > Hello from Canada,
> >
> > This is quite a bit lighter as a topic than guns or burnt-out committee
> > members, but our development permit is requiring that we have male and
> > female washrooms in our common house, meaning we must have two 
> accessible
> > washrooms rather than the one we planned and think adequate.  This will
> > cut into the space in a children's room that doesn't seem very large
> > already.  Our project is in the early stages of being built and we are
> > appealing this decision.  Just thought it might help to find out if this
> > has come up in other projects.  If we can say, "no other cohousing 
> common
> > houses have gendered washrooms", it may strengthen our appeal.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Leslie Myers



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