Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Underground Parking

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 12/27/2002 10:48 AM, "Maggie" <mdutton [at] shaw.ca> wrote:

> 
> 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.

It might also work well with those systems where heat is delivered from a
central source and the hot water pipes run under the sidewalks to melt the
snow. "Melt" is probably more than you want but a semi-heated space could do
a multitude of things.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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