Cohousing-L Mailing List: North Calif Tours of Cohousing and Coop Comm.

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

From: Ken Norwood <slrcnorwood [at] earthlink.net>:

Here is an update regarding the tour series, there are still some spaces
open on the tour bus. But they usually go fast by the last week. November
10 Tour reservations are already coming in.

 Wake-Up Call  2001
 It is Time for Community in America
 Next Tour: Saturday, November 10, 2001, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The Shared Living Resource Center (SLRC) Tours of Cohousing and
Cooperative Communities is for families, couples, & singles seeking
Cohousing, AND, city officials, planners, architects, lenders, and for
profit and non-profit housing developers.

These tours, by Ken Norwood AICP, Architect-Planner, address the need
for Family-Friendly Livable Communities, Sustainable Development, and
protection of Farmland & Open Space while creating private living places
and common places in ecological  villages.  These communities are ideal
places for cooperation and resource sharing and living ecologically.
This is a critically important message for Americans to send to each
other and the peoples of the world.

Should you not be able to make this tour, the 2002 Tour Schedule is
February 16,
and May 11.  Be sure to sign-up at least a month in advance.
<www.sharedliving.org>

Tour  Arrangements
Tour Cost is $75, bring your lunch;  Reservations, call 510-548-6608;
Pay by check to SLRC Tour, address below, or by charge card on phone or
email <slrcnorwood [at] earthlink.net>.
Cancellation Policy:  $50 refund before Nov. 1. and  $35 refund for
later cancellations  only if all bus seats are taken by someone else
before November 9th.
Lunch:    Important!  Bring your lunch to eat in the “N” Street
Cohousing’s totally redesigned backyards— a must see.  There is no room
on the schedule for stops at a store.
Meeting Place & Time:  Meet at 2337 #9 Parker Street @ 8:00 a.m. on
September 15th.
Take I-80 to Ashby Ave. or University Ave. off ramps to Shattuck to
Parker, or  BART to dntn. Berkeley, & a 5 min. bike, AC Bus #40L to
Parker Street, or 10-15 min., walk South.
The SLRC Book and other books on community will be available.  The tour
price of  “Rebuilding Community in America:....”  will be $22.00
including tax  (reg'ly $24.50+ tax)

Livable Community Models for the 21st Century
• Doyle Street Cohousing, Emeryville, Calif. (45 min. visit) This was a
factory building redesigned for in-town housing of 12 varied size units,
with a common kitchen, dining, and social area, laundry, workshop,
playroom, decks, and a hot tub.  It was the first in the Bay area..

•  Swans Marketplace Cohousing, Oakland, Calif..  NEW in 2000! (45 min.
visit)   These 20 units and a common house, with kitchen, dining, and
other amenities, are part of the historic preservation of the old Swans
Market in a mixed use downtown transit-neighborhood.

•    Pleasant Hill Cohousing, Pleasant Hill, Calif.  NEW in 2001! (30 to
45 min. visit)
Another urban infill Cohousing, 32 units and common house on 2.2 acres.
Mixed ages and family types, next to the Iron Horse Trail with easy
access to BART.

•   N Street Cohousing, Davis, Calif.:  (Lunch Stop, 1-1/4 hr. visit) 14
adjacent existing 2-4 bedrm. houses and back yards  joined as one
community, with amenities: a sauna, hot tub, chickens, play areas, etc.
The first fence was removed in 1989, and in 1992 the common house was
remodeled from an existing house. (We may do a drive-by of Muir Commons
Cohousing)

•   Temescal Cohousing, Oakland, Calif.:  NEW in 2000! (45 min. visit)
This 9 unit community cluster shows how Cohousing can upgrade existing
older neighborhoods with a mix. of new infill development, reuse, and
the rehab. of a historic farm house.  It is ecologically designed with
many green building features and the roofs are made of solar panels.

•  Berkeley Cohousing, Berkeley, Calif.:  (Drive-by & photo stop only)
This 14 unit mixed use new residential infill, reuse, and rehab cluster
on 3/4 acre began with the farm house many  years ago, which now is the
common house.  It is near the North Berkeley BART station.  .

•  Parker Street Co-operative, Berkeley, Calif. (45 min. visit) This
Limited Equity Housing Cooperative (LEHC) is 24 one bedroom units in two
three story 54 year old buildings, with new common amenities created by
members who co-own/co-manage this  below market rate Co-op.

 It is Time for Creating Sustainable Cities, Reversing Global Warming,
and Coping With Global Economics. See Why Cohousing Communities Are
Gaining Popularity.  Are You Ready for the 21st. Century and Cohousing
Community for your family and friends?



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