Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing & traditional neighborhood movements.

[Jeffrey O. Hobson (johobson]

Mike Mariner wrote:
>Why can't we renovate existing neighborhoods?  I know, I know --
>obviously it's a long struggle to get enough people in a single city block to
>want community enough to turn it into anything resembling cohousing.  Zoning
>laws and lots of other institutions resist it.  

N Street has not had any problems with zoning laws or with city planning
staff.  Everything we've done has been transparent to them.  The one
interaction we've had was when one person turned a garage into a two-story
granny-flat.  They ok-ed it when the five (at that time) adjacent landowners
signed a mutual access agreement.

I think anyone who visited would say that N Street very closely resembles
cohousing ;-)

Tear down those fences!

Jeffrey Hobson
johobson [at] wheel.ucdavis.edu
N Street Cohousing, Davis Energy Group