Re: home occupations
From: Kathy Icenogle (kathy.icenoglegmail.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 06:28:33 -0800 (PST)
Tiffany,

Sounds like your community has a great plan.

If you ever get to Boulder, you should check out an area in North Boulder
between Easy Rider Ln, 16th St. and Zamia called Studio Muse. It is a super
example of Live-Work housing where residences are on the second floor and
workspaces on first level open onto a walk-way... The workspaces have glass
garage doors that can be opened during good weather.  Even if you are in a
semi-rural location, there is something to be said for keeping the
buildings relatively dense, which would allow more open space and room for
small agriculture ...

Kathy
Washington Village, Boulder

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Tiffany Lee Brown <magdalen23 [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> it's exciting to read everyone's contributions to this discussion. the
> semi-rural community i hope to help instigate will be explicitly friendly
> to home-based businesses and creative entrepreneurs; the hope is that our
> community building would house not only community dinners, meetings, and
> yoga classes, but art studios and small offices for members to rent, and
> the occasional well-paying catered event, such as a wedding. i imagine
> that, or perhaps art/music/writing studios that could be used as offices
> dotted throughout the land. multiple revenue streams could be embedded from
> the outset, so that income from wellness, arts, small agriculture, artisan
> foods, and tourism is baked into the community. (so far, it seems this
> vision would be hard to mesh with the land-use laws in my home state,
> Oregon, so it may be this never actually happens or we head for Idaho.)
>
> anyway. thanks again for all the information, stories, and opinions.
>
> -tiffany in oregon
>  wannabe co-houser
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Kathryn McCamant wrote:
>
> >
> > I think having people working out of their homes can be a real benefit to
> > the community, and likely to become increasingly popular as more and more
> > people work independently.
> >
> > I remember an early study that concluded about 30% of cohousers actually
> > work full or part time from home.
> >
> > Having more people working from home, and their clients coming and going,
> > increases your security with more ³eyes on², reduces driving (and climate
> > impact), and bring positive exposure to the community for future resales.
> > For example, the lovely family that bought the house next door to me in
> > Nevada City Cohousing, knew about the community because they brought
> their
> > daughter to our common house for violin lessons. Having people working
> > from home also means they are more likely to be around when the community
> > needs someone to let in a repair person or other such things during the
> > day.
> >
> > I would agree with Phillip, and suggest giving it a try, thinking about
> it
> > optimistically, and if there are indeed problems that arise, then deal
> > with them, or retract the option for people with more than a certain
> > number of visitors for their business. But I¹d hate to see you not even
> > give it a try before you know if there are really any issues. You might
> be
> > surprized how little you even notice those other visitors.
> >
> > Katie
> > --
> > Kathryn McCamant, President
> > CoHousing Solutions
> > 241B Commercial Street
> > Nevada City, CA 95959
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> >
> >
> >
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> Tiffany Lee Brown
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