Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Coho & Makin' Dough --> Sustainability?

[J . Massengale (J.Massengale]

>>Does anyone out there have any experience with community strategies for 
reducing transportation fuel consumption?

One of the of the answers is the same as the first three rules of real
estate: location, location and location.

Or if the mountain won't come to Mohammed...

75 years before anyone had ever heard of co-housing, groups of New Yorkers
were banding together and building apartment houses with common rooms and
dining. In other words, co-housing does not have to be low-density in
outlying areas. I'm new to this list, so pardon my ignorance, but isn't there
some urban co-housing in the Bay area?

Another obvious solution is to locate near mass transit.

Am I missing something?

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> Assumption:  Most folks interested in cohousing care about the environment
> and want their lifestyle to be as sustainable as possible.  Yet many coho
> sites are out in the suburbs where at least some of the residents have to
> commute.  Bad, bad -- not very sustainable, right?  I mean if you're
burning
> up a few swimming pools full of gasoline every year just to get to/from
work,
> isn't that more than a little grotesque? <said with a *grin*, not a
> holier-than-thou look!>

This is a real concern to many of us at Kinney Ridge. It seems that
car-pooling
would help a lot; beyond that we'd like to explore some kind of communally
owned electric vehicle (or super-efficient vehicle(s) ).

Does anyone out there have any experience with community strategies for 
reducing transportation fuel consumption?