Re: retrofitting an existing neighborhood | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: sandra wolf (sandywolfhotmail.com) | |
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:30:12 -0800 (PST) |
Dear Tricia, Maybe you have not heard of N Street Cohousing in Davis, California. This was one of the first retrofitted cohousing neighborhoods. Check out www.nstreetcousing.org I saw their neighborhood on a tour several years ago, and it is still my favorite. They started in 1986 and bought one house at a time as they became available. Now they have 19 houses, 50 adults, and 14 kids. They took out the backyard fences separating the houses from each other, and made gardens, raise chickens, have a compost, and the kids all run around together in safety in the back. They turned one of the houses into a common house. Good luck, Sandra Wolf> From: mrbouchez06 [at] aol.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:57:16 -0500> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Subject: [C-L]_ retrofitting an existing neighborhood> > Hi> I'm not yet in a co housing situation but considering a semi-retrofit of > quasi co housing for a neighborhood in southwest florida. My thought is to > encourage sharing of various resources from both an economic and > socially-sustainable community approach. I'm not sure that my somewhat-aloof neighborhood is > ready for such drastic change but it's worth a try. I'll tell them that > socialization will prolong their lives and that might gain me some recruits. > > Several areas have crossed my mind as projects to consider. I already > converted my front yard from the traditional cookie cutter, "stay off of my st > augustine grass" florida yard to a beautiful butterfly garden that invites > people to stop and chat. My next thought is to work on a common doggie play > area, possibly in my own side yard as this is a very doggie neighborhood. > > Another idea has sprung from a present disaster I am dealing with (the > death of my irrigation well). It has come to mind that drilling a common well for > multiple homes to irrigate from makes more sense than everyone dealing with > this catastrophe when it occurs (i just replaced my pump to the tune of 1200. > and have no idea how expensive digging deeper for water will run). Before > anyone gets offended at using precious water resources for lawn watering, let > me hasten to add that I live in southwest Florida where not keeping one's > yard up will land you in HOA purgatory (been there/done that) and the state of > Florida will not come to your rescue. We have to water the lawn so the > approach is to find a way to be more resourceful, more financially savvy, and > again, build a sense of community and joint ownership of our unintentional > community. > > Has anyone out there done a "retrofitting" to some extent like the concept > of "superbia"?> Has anyone done a common well for watering in a community? Not necessarily > one large well for the whole neighborhood but several neighbors hooking up > off one common drilling.> Any input would be appreciated.> In the meantime, living in the land of Sunshine where it never rains though > we wish fervently that it would. In fact, I'm just dreaming of a wet > Christmas even if it were snow! And i wish that raindrops would keep falling on my > head.> Tricia> > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)> _________________________________________________________________> Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/> > _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.Download today it's FREE! http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_sharelife_112007
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retrofitting an existing neighborhood mrbouchez06, December 10 2007
- Re: retrofitting an existing neighborhood sandra wolf, December 10 2007
- Re: retrofitting an existing neighborhood Fred H Olson, December 12 2007
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