Cohousing-L Mailing List: Mixed use cohousing / site selection

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

PATRICK_BENNETT [at] STORTEK.COM Patrick Bennett is the author 
of the message below but due to a listserv problem it was 
posted (with changed subject line) by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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Actually, you bring up a question which would be good to poll the
general community about.  How many co-housing projects consider/provide
this type of commercial/service/residential mix?  Someone mentioned,
in response to a question about workshops, that most coho places are
just residential.  Is this generally true?  And does proximity to these
services come into consideration when selecting a site?  I know cohousing
is not intended as an answer to the car culture, but it seems counter-
productive to create this great community out in the middle of nowhere,
where you have to drive a long way to get to work or the grocery store.

Maybe the real question is, what are the criteria for selecting a site?

Now that I think about it, is there a cohousing FAQ? (So I can stop
answering questions which have probably already been asked :-)

Patrick

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