Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Construction Sequencing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Chuck Durret at The CoHousing Company
coho [at] cohousingco.com wrote in the message
http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/2001/msg01735.html :

> Some common houses are used as much as twenty times as much as others. 

This suggest some standard way of measuring common house useage.
Seems to me this would be an interesting statistic to use to compare
communities.  Chuck, how did you compare useage?

Also Chuck, your interesting article urging building the common house at
the same time as the individual units if at all possible (rather than
waiting) brings to mind the possibility of building the common house
before - maybe even well before - the individual units are built.  I have
in mind a non-residential based intentional community here who are
scattered over about a 6 by 10 mile area (western suburbs of Mpls).  Some
of them would like to evolve to cohousing tho no serious discussion of it
has happened.  They have nothing resembling a common house now, they meet
at each others homes, public places and online.  But it occurs to me if
they had a site that could eventually accomodate a cohousing community and
built a common house on the site for near term use it might be a way to
evolve toward cohousing.  Some existing use of the site that made it
affordable would be very helpful..

Has any group built their common house significantly in advance of
building the individual units?

Fred

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