Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: co-hou-du-sac?

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

My one suggestion on this idea is to option a block of homes back to back 
on two parallel streets, not in a culdesac where a street runs down the 
middle and the fire dept. will have conniption fits with anything that 
changes that street.  Ideally have the streets run east west.

Kevin Wolf
N Street Cohousing where 5 houses on Lessley Place back up against 9 houses 
on N Street and the streets run north south.

At 10:01 PM 7/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Warning: this is a long entry)
>I occasionally check out the Cohousing Networks website to see what's
>new, invariably stopping in at Fred's "retro" section to remind myself
>that cohousing is a state of mind not just new bricks and sticks built
>on huge construction loans and sold with the risky promise of something
>better.
>Put on your brainstorming caps for a moment while I pop up an
>alternative development model.
>Perhaps a standard suburban developer could be persuaded to accept an
>option from a group in which the group would have the right to buy up a
>cul-du-sac of say 24 lots.  The option would last for maybe 6 months to
>a year and during that time would be marketed in the realm of cohousing.