Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: housing enmasse

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Why can't the community be 6-8 co-housing communities all linked in some 
manner.  Each co-housing group could have its own common house etc, but 
the community overall might have a office building, childcare facility, 
food buying club office etc.  Think of co-housing as building blocks and 
basic units of a community.

Kevin Wolf 
N Street Co-housing

On Thu, 2 Feb 1995 areinert [at] linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us wrote:

> 
> 
> On W



d, 1 Feb 1995, Blake F. Cullimore wrote:
> > 
> > I am a College student that has been studying the concepts that cohousing 
> > is based on and have seen two groups in action.  One that is looking for 
> > a location and one that moved in a year ago.  In our design class we have 
> > focused on the values that make this system work and how it relates to 
> > the design of the community.  In the last week we have decided on a site 
> > and have been given the requirements of developing a community that is a 
> > 170 units on a 25 acres.  The site is a dune scrub community within a 
> > small town with single family homes around the site.  The site also has a 
> > major runoff system and perrenial flood zone running through it. I am of 
> > the opinion that the design of such a community would do injustice to the 
> > values that create a well founded and functioning community.  
> > 
> > Can a housing development have 170 units even if clustered?  Is this a 
> > mass subdivision in a politically correct disguise? Can a sense of 
> > community be developed in such circumstances?
> > 
> > blake cullimore
> > 
> Hmm.  I don't think that something that large could be "cohousing" 
> community in the sense of a small group of households defining and 
> operating it cooperatively.  It could be a real nice small town to live 
> in though, the sort of natural neighborly small town (bigger than a 
> village) that we hope cohousing is a deliberate recreation of.  But it 
> couldn't be cohousing in the details of, oh, 100's to dinner and forums 
> and meetings.  And the grounds meeting over trying deal with and 
> ameliorate the terrible site would probably tear it up anyway.
> 
> Gee.  I guess that means No.
> 
> 

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Kevin Wolf
724 N St
Davis, CA 95616
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