Cohousing-L Mailing List: snow ski-cohousing

[mark a demaio (mdemaio]

I'd like to hear some debate on who has the best snow skiing friendly
cohousing group. items to brag about would be distance to slopes, ability
to get to the slopes, preferably with other community minded folks,
number of active skiers and ability levels. 
I've heard rumors that Aspen failed cause most of the folks really bought
in for cheap units. Was this the only reason? I am the County Engineer
for Alpine County in CA (near Lake Tahoe), location of Kirkwood, a
quickly developing, soon to be destination resort, and Bear Valley, a
relatively mature small resort. One of the developers with whom i'm
working with is familiar with cohousing, and new urbanism even more so.
Coincidentally, i've put a deposit on an employee unit in a new building
under construction 150 feet from Kirkwood's main lift. 
Any thoughts as to whether resort or second home cohousing would work for
1)a group of employee housing, 2)emloyee housing mixed with market rate
units, or 3)market rate only units? 
Any ideas on whether this type of thing could lead to development of an
umbrella group of multiplace based community?
Is there anyone out there that has an interest in taking the lead on
putting a group together in the tahoe area (preferably south shore for
me)? or at some other ski resort?(whoa- there is an open ended question!)
I have some leads from when i was pursuing a similar thing for Iron
Mountain ( a defunct ski area near kirkwood).

In Sustainable Community, Mark DeMaio, Concord (CA) Oasis Ecohousing
Where we are building a straw bale multi- household capable home
green building site tours with hands on opportunities are being held on
weekends
925-687-2560(site/ message), 530-694-9501(weekday eves, markleeville)

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