Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: design review

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I am surprised that you were allowed to build only 15 garages for the whole
community.  I guess you have parking for everyone else, regardless of
whether it's covered.

I think there's a good lesson here. So many of us get caught up in the ideal
that we read about, and don't really think about the reality. I think this
goes along with the other thread about cohousing not being magic. It's so
hard to keep your feet on the ground when your dreams take flight!
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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

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From: PattyMara [at] aol.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
Subject: Re: design review
Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999, 8:17 PM

 Here, we designed 15 garages in for a community of 27 homes.  Now
there are 3 households who very very much want a garage and cannot have one
because they bought in after all garages were reserved.

At Tierra Nueva there was and still is a stigma attached to wanting a garage
for a *car* and *storage of stuff* probably based on some nebulous ideal of
voluntary simplicity.   So we didn't build a garage for every house.  I wish
we would have built more garages though, that were designed and engineered
better.

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 regardless of whether it's covered. <BR>
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I think there's a good lesson here. So many of us get caught up in the idea=
l that we read about, and don't really think about the reality. I think this=
 goes along with the other thread about cohousing not being magic. It's so h=
ard to keep your feet on the ground when your dreams take flight!<BR>
-- <BR>
Liz Stevenson<BR>
Southside Park Cohousing<BR>
Sacramento, California<BR>
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From: PattyMara [at] aol.com<BR>
To: Multiple recipients of list &lt;cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org&gt;<BR>
Subject: Re: design review<BR>
Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999, 8:17 PM<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>&nbsp;Here, we designed 15 garages in for a community of 27=
 homes. &nbsp;Now <BR>
there are 3 households who very very much want a garage and cannot have one=
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because they bought in after all garages were reserved. <BR>
<BR>
At Tierra Nueva there was and still is a stigma attached to wanting a garag=
e <BR>
for a *car* and *storage of stuff* probably based on some nebulous ideal of=
 <BR>
voluntary simplicity. &nbsp;&nbsp;So we didn't build a garage for every hou=
se. &nbsp;I wish <BR>
we would have built more garages though, that were designed and engineered =
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better.<BR>
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Re: design review	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Bitner/Stevenson (lilbertearthlink.net)
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:53:55 -0700 (MST)