Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Very quick question

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

According to our website, our CH (at Sonora Cohousing, Tucson, AZ) is
3500 sf.  This includes: dining room with a kitchen and a lounge;
one guest room; a crafts room; teen/multi-purpose room (which has a TV
as well as exercising equipment); a laundry room and a kids room.
At a different location on site we have a workshop, which was built 
later.
I'm not sure how large it is - perhaps around 400 sf, which brings our
common indoor space to about 4000 sf.

I think many in the community would agree that having an additional
guest room would have been highly beneficial.

Our community consists of 36 units.

Racheli.


On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:19 AM, R.P. Aditya wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:06:44PM -0400, Tom Hammer wrote:
> > We have a very quick question with an answer needed urgently (by
> > Sunday a.m.):
> >
> > we have a developer who is suggesting a 2500 sq ft common house for 34
> > families.
> >
> > This seems small to me, and we could really use your quick estimate of
> > the sq ft of your common house and how many households it serves.  We
> > could then come up with  sq ft/household and see if our developer's
> > figures make sense.   .
>
> We (Great Oak Cohousing in Ann Arbor, MI) have 5400 sq. ft. for 37 
> households.
>
> We have a large dining room -- a 100 diners is about the limit, and 
> we've
> filled it on multiple special occasions!
>
> We don't have a basement, but wish we did, and due to the California 
> architect
> not figuring that we needed space for 3 furnaces, have some rooms that 
> are
> smaller than anticipated -- we wish we had a bigger exercise room at 
> the very
> least. We do have 3 offices that are rented by people in the 
> community, plus a
> guest room, which all have been appreciated. You can see pictures and 
> judge
> approximate sizes at:
>
>   http://www.gocoho.org/campus/common_house/
>
> Thanks,
> Adi
> Great Oak Cohousing
> http://www.gocoho.org
> Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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