Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Possible Cohousing/Permaculture based farm project near Ann Arbor, MI

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hello,

	That 2 acre separate lot zoning law suggests an interesting 
architectural and/or mathematical problem.  You have, for example, 20 
households who want to build houses as close to each other as possible. 
However, all houses must be on separate lots of at least two acres.  How 
would you draw out the lot lines?  Any counterintuitive ideas?  Would 
fractals come in handy? :-)

Regards,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing


Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 17:24:04 -0500
From: Vasi Toneva <hollowreed3 [at] yahoo.com>
To: Tom Smyth <tom [at] sassafras.coop>
Cc: "cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Possible Cohousing/Permaculture based farm project
        near    Ann Arbor, MI
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We actually don't have a site plan yet but we do have pretty strict zoning 
restrictions in the area where the land is located, so that limits what we 
can do.  The land is about 30 acres.  My father in law owns 43 acres, they 
would want to keep around ten acres and sell us the rest.  If it does seem 
feasible to move forward with this project, we would definitely want 
people to participate in the planning and decision making of what the 
community looks like, but we do have to work with the restrictions already 
in place.  One of those restrictions is the fact that the houses have to 
be on separate lots of at least 2 acres.

How is your project going, Jerry?  What does your community entail and how 
far along in the stages of planning?

Best of luck,

Vasi