Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: RE: Don't be quiet out there.

[Maggi Rohde (maggi]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Ellen Orleans wrote:
> Sharon Villines from Takoma Village encouraged us to talk about our
> communities, so here's a little about mine.

Thanks for the prompting, Shaon (and Ellen).  I'll follow suit.

Our community is between names, so I hesitate to name it, but we are
temporarily using the name Honey Creek.  We are the third cohousing
community in Michigan (all three of which are within 20 acres of one
another in Ann Arbor).  Our site is a lovely six-acre prairie
surrounded by fields, trees and a nature preserve, but is less than
10 driving minutes from downtown Ann Arbor, a midwest mecca of food,
arts, culture, the University of Michigan and excellent public
schools (of course, I teach in the system, so I'm biased!).

We are currently revising our site plan with our architects from the
Cohousing Company (yay, Chuck and Katie!) and our common house
programming is coming up in November.  Depending on how fast we
grow, the tentative plan is to break ground in spring of 2003.  Our
developer is the Cohousing Development Company (CDC).

We currently have 11 member households out of a projected total of
between 42 and 46 units, many of which are singles.  We also have
one- and two-parent families with children (4 kids so far) and older
singles with grown children.

One of our primary foci has been to include small one-bedroom units
for under $100k, but we also plan to include larger units (our rough
estimate is a 4-bedroom for $400k).  We will have one-car garages,
some adjacent to the units and some detached, as well as uncovered
parking.

As I mentioned, we are in a fairly unique situation in that we are
directly adjacent to two other cohousing communities: the
member-developed Sunward, in place for five years, and CDC-developed
Great Oak, just breaking ground this month.  This means we will
essentially have an extended community of 120 households.  Our north
side butts up against the Great Oak site, so we plan to share
amenities such as a workshop and a garden, not to mention fields,
streams and lots of love.

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to be part of such a fantastic
group of people, and I would love to hear from anyone on cohousing-l
who would like to know more about the cohousing group formerly known
as Honey Creek.  =)  Email me at maggi [at] intranet.org, or talk
directly to Nick Meima at nick [at] sunward.org.

You can see our web page here: http://www.ic.org/honeycreek/

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Maggi Rohde, Library/Media Specialist
Allen Elementary School, Ann Arbor, MI
        maggi [at] intranet.org
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"So much to find out about; so much
 to look forward to! I'm quite
 dizzy with anticipation! ... Or
 is it the wind?"
        - the whale, "Restaurant at
          the End of the Universe"
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