Cohousing-L Mailing List: Architecture review and building maintenance (fwd)

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Sybil Aldridge MILAGRO COHOUSING  Saldridg [at] aol.com
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Hi all,

We Milagro cohousers are seeing our buildings go up and realize that soon
our dream will be realized.  Phase One of our building is scheduled to be
completed in November, the other phases (2-4) and Common House by next
spring.

With move-in starting to be a reality, we're looking at questions of how
to handle requests for changes in structures, colors, remodeling,
ancillary buildings, etc.  Typically, we've been told that these requests
are dealt with by an Architecture Review Committee, something also
required by Arizona state law for townhomes.

What we're wondering is:

1.  How does YOUR community deal with Architecture review type requests?  
    How do you process these requests?  Does a committee 
       decide?  
       advise the homeowner on how to do it? 
       advise the larger community who decides?
       advise a management committee who decides?

2.  How do you deal with the issue of maintenance?  Is this function one of 
inspecting and then finding a way to do repairs, either with community 
members or contracted out to the proper repair people?  Does your community 
have a committee who actually does the maintenance?

3.  Is the maintenance function folded in to an architectural review 
committee?

Thanks for your help.

     Sybil Aldridge


     
MILAGRO COHOUSING  --  A Community in Balance with Nature 
Tucson   AZ  USA                   www.milagrocohousing.org 


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