Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dishwasher and disabilities

[Cheryl DeWolfe (cheryl.dewolfe]

Hi all... I have been lurking here for a while as I am part of a small group
in the early stages of forming a work/live (eg: with some commercial space)
cohousing site in Victoria BC. We also want to design some units
specifically with wheelchair access and all of them with general
accessibility issues in mind. One potential member/neighbour has MS, two
have arthritis and one of those has also been unable to work due to a back
injury. (We hope to work with a local wheelchair advocacy group to design
those suites.)

I have found this thread very enlightening -- these details are far down the
road for us, but having read about the issue it will be important to keep in
mind. We had been so focused on envisioning the living units that we had
forgotten to envision how everyone could work together in the kitchen!

Anyway, I'll just go back to lurking now. :)

Cheryl DeWolfe
(we don't have a name yet for our group)
Victoria, BC



----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Stevenson" <tamgoddess [at] attbi.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Dishwasher


> Hallelujah. I thought I was the lone voice in the wilderness, Joyce. Your
> kitchen is exactly like ours. We also let the next cooks empty the
> dishwashers. Everyone who tours our kitchen loves it and it's
non-commercial
> feel. Other cohousers are often envious.
>
> And nobody even acknowledged the disability issue I brought up. I guess
> you're all going to be able-bodied forever. Good luck with that...
>
> --
> Liz Stevenson
> Southside Park Cohousing
> Sacramento, California
> tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
> > From: JoycePlath [at] aol.com
> > Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> > Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:37:04 EDT
> > To: floriferous [at] msn.com, cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_Dishwasher
> >
> > Marsh Commons dinners seat between twenty and thirty folks.  We started
out
> > with just one residential dishwasher.  Recently we added a second
dishwasher
> > and a second deep sink for washing pots.  The first sink on a different
> > counter has one deep side and a regular eight inch side.  Our kitchen
looks
> > residential in style (not rated as a commercial kitchen) and is open to
> > dining.  We picked quiet dishwashers and sometimes do not run them until
the
> > end of socializing.  The cooks for the next meal unload the clean dishes
and
> > part of their responsibilities.
> > The description of all this heavy lifting of wet dishes makes me think
that
> > we have a good solution for up to say forty diners
> > Joyce Plath
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