Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Mixed Commercial/Cohousing

[Jeff Gold (jgold]

Quayside Cohousing in North Vancouver, BC, has a commercial 
component.  Contact Stacy Pigg at <pigg [at] sfu.ca> for more information.
Jeff Gold
Whole Village
www.wholevillage.org


At 01:34 AM 4/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Our group has an option has an option on a 4.7 acre parcel, 3/4 of a city
>block adjacent to a bicycle path,  in the middle of an old (100 years)
>established residential area, with some nearby commercial use.   We will
>need to apply for a zoning change to Planned Urban Development, and the
>City planning office, which has been very cooperative and supportive of
>cohousing, has encouraged "mixed uses [commercial] if small in scale."  The
>site will have plenty of room for the 30 to 35 units we intend to build as 
>well
>as for some commercial use in one corner of the site [which we would limit
>to professional offices--some to be used by our members-- and maybe a
>coffee shop].  We could sell the land, or build the units ourselves and then
>sell or lease them.
>
>Have any other cohousing communities had experience with doing anything
>like this?
>------------------------------------
>Dick Kohlhaas <chan [at] usa.net>
>Colorado Springs (Colorado) Cohousing Community
>(Currently 17 intending owner families; we have an option on a 4.7 acre 
>property 1.5 miles from downtown,
>where we plan to build 25-35 units; now doing due diligence on the 
>property and
>feasibility studies.)
>