Cohousing-L Mailing List: Underground Parking

[Maggie (mdutton]

Our winters in Northern Alberta can be brutally cold.  Have any other groups
felt that heated underground parking was important enough to include in
their project?  How would having underground parking affect a cohousing
community?  I can picture it as having potential for a multitude of uses,
like an exercise area for Rollerbladers, dogs, joggers.  Or other forms of
recreation or a place to hold large events.  I lived in a condo complex once
that had the parking underneath rows of townhouses facing each other with
pedestrian walkways and flower boxes etc between them, on top of the
parking.  When you drove into the parking, you drove to your spaces, which
were in front of a basement door into your unit. This complex was not
cohousing and no one knew his or her neighbours.  The kids did use it as a
way to get to each other's homes without going outside.  Would anyone have a
guesstimate as to the construction cost per parking spot for underground
parking?
Maggie Dutton,
Fort McMurray, Alberta. Canada.
www.fortmcmurray.com

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