Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cars per unit

[Gary Kent (garykent]

The Roberts Creek Cohousing Project (south western B.C. Canada) is in the
first stages of zoning amendment application.  We are asking to have our
parking area reduced to 1.5 parking stalls per unit.  We have been advised
by the planning department that:
"unless supported by a detailed investigation of potential vehicle use, the
number and size of parking stalls should be allocated in accordance with
existing provisions of the zoning"  (two parking stalls per unit).

As we will are planning on 30 units this seems ridiculous for us to dedicate
so much land to 60 parking stalls.  We have the space (20 acres), however we
are trying very hard to limit our footprint.

Our present 13 equity members have a total of 12 cars (average per unit of
.9).

My sense is that this low ratio of cars to unit is fairly typical of
Cohousing communities.
We are gathering information to support our application to reduce the
parking.

We would really appreciate it If you have the time to gather information for
a very basic car : unit ratio in your community and send it to me off line.
I will post the results after I have compiled them.

Thank you.
Stacia Leech - e-mail address: garykent [at] uniserve.com


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