Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: parking lots and predominantly female cohousing communities

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Peter Starr STARTRAK [at] REDWOOD.NORTHCOAST.COM 
is the author of the message below but due
to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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In response to Wynne's parking questions.

>How have other groups dealt with parking?  
>Specifically, do other communities have assigned parking spaces which 
>"belong" to each unit or not?

Hi Wynne,

Here at Marsh Commons, we have a small piece of land that isn't big enough 
for a single, central lot. The city won't allow us to park on the street.  
So are being forced to put parking spaces on the street-side of our houses. 
To compensate for the loss of "funneling" commuters through the common house 
on their way home, we have gone out of our way to design a pedestrian walk 
or esplanade that tightly connects each of the houses and the common house.

>We were wondering what 
>the makeup of other similar communities is?

We have 3 single women, 3 single men, one with a newborn and one who just 
turned 80 and three married couples, two with children.

We too, have several openings.  Two houses and one half of a duplex.

We're going to have a web page soon.  I'll be posting the address.

Peter
           Starr Track
We Track the Natural Products industry
  Peter Starr___________Sara Starr



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