Cohousing-L Mailing List: request to post the following about fire elements in cohousing developments

[JOAN OLECK (joanoleck]

Dear Cohousers:

I'm part of a cohousing community, Village Hill, being developed in

Northampton, MA. We're doing some research on fire elements, as one of 
our

community members, is seriously allergic to wood particulates. So I'm 
hoping

you might post this on your blog for us to gather input from other

communities. Our questions include:

Do other communities allow wood stoves? In both individual units AND the

common house or just one or the other?

If so, have individuals in these communities suffered any ill effects?

If woodstoves are not allowed, are stoves with eco friendly fuels 
(pellets)

allowed as an alternate?

What about back-up heat in general (should the electricity go out/the 
solar

panels fail, etc.)? Are communities putting in generators with propane, 
or

backing off from that too, as a fossil fuel?

Please email me privately, at: joanoleck [at] optimum.net

We'll be very, very grateful from any guidance other communities offer.

Thanks so much! -- Joan Oleck, (based in Brooklyn, NY, for now)
my email: joanoleck [at] optimum.net