Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: washrooms - 2 required in commonhouse?

[S. Kashdan (skashdan]

Hi Leslie,

Here at Jackson Place Cohousing our common house isn't the biggest. It was
made smaller by the need to add some units. We put some apartments in the
upper floors to make the whole project more affordable. But we still had to
build in two adult accessible bathrooms. We also have a children's bathroom
in the kids' room. We have 44 adult residents and 12 children. And we
frequently have guests for dinner and parties. No one has to wait very long
to use a bathroom, although there is a line during the meeting breaks.

Hope this helps.

Coheartedly,

Sylvie Kashdan
Jackson Place Cohousing
800 Hiawatha Place South
Seattle, WA 98144
www.seattlecohousing.org


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Subject: [C-L]_washrooms - 2 required in commonhouse?


Leslie Myers <frackow [at] istar.ca> / prairiesky [at] prairiesky.ab.ca
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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
prairiesky [at] prairiesky.ab.ca






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