Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [C-L] Retrofit - Do you know of cohousing that has evolved in existing neighborhoods?

[Kevin Wolf (kevinjwolf]

Sharon,

Good advice.  I suggest Retrofit be the first lead word (e.g. CL Retrofit -
Common Houses, CL Retrofit - Changes in Zoning). The problem with this is
that some people see the word Retrofit and think it means taking an
existing building, redesigning and retrofiting it, and moving in all at
once. That  is more like standard cohousing than the long process of often
slowly adding units to retrofit a block of homes in an existing
neighborhood into cohousing community.  Could we find another word for
cohousing that reuses old buildings like Doyle Street Cohousing did in
Emeryville?

Kevin

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 9:22 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Jul 20, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Valerie Harrington <valgalwilson [at] 
> > gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm also putting together a retrofit/neighborhood cohousing listserv
> > specifically dedicated to questions/ideas about creating cohousing from
> > existing housing and neighborhoods.
>
> Unsolicited advice: Stay on this list and adopt a unique subject line so
> people can easily find messages that relate to retrofit.
>
> My experience is that I want to set up special focus lists to encourage a
> focused discussion. I think it will allow everyone who is wild about the
> subject to finally have a place to go full steam. Sometimes that happens
> for a few weeks or even months, but mostly it is then over.
>
> Unless the focus is the actual planning of a specific project that has
> off-screen action, it takes a lot of people to keep a list alive. As in
> 200. People are looking for information on a list and it takes a wide
> variety of people to provide enough information to keep the conversation
> going. The list goes quiet and it’s hard to go back to the main list. It
> feels like a failure.
>
> Sharon
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