Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: seeking suggestions on maintaining long-term hot tub use

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Joey Kimdon <jkimdon [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Our community is working on getting a shared hot tub. While many households
>> have enthusiasm for the hot tub now, we want to make it likely that it
>> continues to get used as the years go by. So -- we were wondering if any of
>> you who have experience with hot tubs in community had any tips or
>> suggestions on design, policy, norms, etc. that might facilitate use of the
>> hot tub as a long-term community-building feature.

Do look up your regulations. In DC, hot tubs are classified as public pools. I 
suspect they are elsewhere too.

People are usually more familiar with those regulations so you can pretty much 
predict what they will be -- trained supervision, certain chemical balances, 
certain signage, security.

Not impossible but not easy to fulfill.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org