Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Access to common areas

[Kathy Tymoczko (kathy.tymoczko]

We have electronic RFID key fobs to get into the Common House.  The Common
House contains great space, kitchen, TV room, library, kids room, guest
rooms, yoga room, craft room (all on the main level), and storage spaces,
laundry room, exercise room, workshop (kept locked with a key outside the
door on a hook too high for kids and other short people to reach), bike
room, and hallway freezers (all in the basement).  All adult residents get
a fob, and people can request a fob for their kids (usually 8 years or so
and up).  We also have an outdoor garden closet which our apartment keys
open, and a garden shed with padlocks, the key to which is on a hook in the
garden closet.

Who has which fob is stored in the database for the access software
(Honeywell ProWatch), and fobs can be deactivated if lost.

So the Common House is locked all the time (we're in an urban environment)
and requires a fob to get in, except when there's an event going on inside
and then we can manually unlock it (and relock it when the event is done).

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Wim De Saegher <wim.de [at] saegher.be> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
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> how do you secure the access to the common areas?
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> Using a key?
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> Is there one key (with duplicates)? Who gets a key?
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> Is the key part of a "big key": big key opens house, small part opens
> common
> area?
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> Do all common areas (guestrooms, garden shed, bike shed) share the same
> key/lock?
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> Using a code? A lock with code, or an electronic door?
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> Biometrics? Badge?
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> We're designing the buildings now and would like to know how other groups
> tackle this issue.
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> Thanks a lot!
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> Kind regards
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> Wim De Saegher (Belgium)
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>  <mailto:wim.de [at] saegher.be> wim.de [at] saegher.be
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Kathy Tymoczko
Daybreak Cohousing <http://www.daybreakcohousing.org>
Portland, Oregon
765-307-1083