Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Small business and shared resources questions

[PattyMara Gourley (pattymara]

Adding to Sylie's comments, Tierra Nueva has several artists working in
home studios plus an antique restoration craftsman working in his garage
workshop.  None of the work involves much traffic coming on site, except
for an annual Open Studio Tour sponsored by the county arts folk.    Look
for Tierra Nueva artists on the Communitymade website within the next few
months, www.communitymade.com

We are still designing/building our common workshop/studio space (another
story) and there may be further involvement of residents doing commercial
work in that space whenever it gets built (sigh) which of course will
lead to many more community discussions on private enterprise in common
space.  

We do have a common chicken coop, no odor coming from it.  The coop has
been a 
source of fun for all, except for the occasional coyote visit for a
midnight snack (which I find delightful, but the hens do not).  Only
recently have we acquired a rooster, who wandered in from parts unknown. 
We compost much of our food scraps in the chicken yard, and add that to
our garden soil....and have a line item in our yearly HOA budget for
supplemental feed and coop repair.

no sheep, goats or cattle here, but there is a pet rabbit coop in one
back yard.  
Patty
Tierra Nueva, central CA coast



On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:20:20 -0800 "S. Kashdan" <skashdan [at] scn.org>
writes:
> 
> At Jackson Place Cohousing
> 800 Hiawatha Place South
> Seattle, WA 98144
> www.seattlecohousing.org
> 
> We have a number of people who work at home, with rooms set aside in 
> their
> own homes for their offices or work areas. One person is an artist, 
> and has
> set aside one room in her home for an art studio. If anyone wants to 
> do
> their own personal work in the common house or in our common 
> workshop, there
> is no problem with that, except they can't leave things set up for a 
> long
> time and expect them not to be disturbed. I think that if someone 
> wanted to
> use the common house kitchen to make food to sell on a regular basis 
> or to
> use the dining room or living room as a place to sell things on a 
> regular
> basis, we would have to discuss that. And, most community members 
> would
> probably oppose that because it would interfere with community 
> activities in
> the common house. But, that hasn't come up yet.
> 
> I can't comment about raising animals because we don't have enough 
> land for
> individuals to raise animals. We do have enough land and adjacent 
> city land
> to have a large vegetable garden for the community and individuals 
> who want
> to use it. The things that people grow in their individual gardens 
> are
> theirs to do with what they please; most have chosen to donate 
> surplus to
> neighbors and the community kitchen, but they could sell vegetables 
> and
> fruits if they wished to.  We also have some fruit trees. We are 
> also
> thinking about  getting some chickens, which would belong to the 
> entire
> community, but only cared for by a few people. There has been some 
> concern
> about bad odors from the chicken coop. We don't have any room for 
> other
> animals.
> 
> However, if a rural cohousing community had plots that were large 
> enough for
> homes and grasing animals, I don't think there would necessarily be 
> any
> problems about raising animals on your individual land plot--unless 
> some of
> the other members didn't like it for some reason. That would be an
> individual question, not inherent in the nature of cohousing.
> 
> I hope this helps a little.
> 
> Sylvie Kashdan
> skashdan [at] scn.org
> Jackson Place Cohousing
> 800 Hiawatha Place South
> Seattle, WA 98144
> www.seattlecohousing.org
> 
> 
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