Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Lot sizes

[Peter Goldstein (peterhansgoldstein]

Jerry -

Until recently, the cohousing directory had columns for overall footprint
in acres and unit count. You can view it in backup at
https://web.archive.org/web/20140419203111/https://www.cohousing.org/directory

With some communities all in one building and others spread over dozens of
acres, lot size means something different in each.

This is just my opinion, but I wouldn't bend over too far backward trying
to fit into existing zoning laws. Where I've done detailed research (near
Boston), nothing even close to cohousing could be built without a variance.

- Peter

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 Jerry McIntire (jerry.mcintiregmail.com) wrote:
>
> >For lot development communities, is there a resource somewhere that lists
> >the lot sizes in different communities? I imagine it varies considerably.
> I
> >could contact a number of communities, but I wonder if someone has a
> >collection of data like this.
>
> I am not aware of such a list, we'll see if anyone else is.
> For starters, is there a list of cohousing communities that used the
> lot development model?
>
> A couple thoughts from the discussion here around Jan 17, 2015 with
> Subject: Lot development walkability [was: Getting started ...
> that evolved to a discussion of how zoning and bank loan requirements
> affect density. Do these specifically put a lower limit on lot size?
>
> Also if you end up collecting data, I'd urge watching for
> other measures of walkability.
>
> Fred
>
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