Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Privately sponsored renovations to building envelope

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

>From how I read the original message, I thought the building was already
built, and the question was about changes in semi-private space, rather than
change-orders during construction.

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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
> From: Casey Morrigan <cjmorr [at] pacbell.net>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:31:59 -0700
> To: "'cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org'" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: RE: [C-L]_Privately sponsored renovations to building envelope
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>>> We have been approached by one of our members for permission to make an
> adjustment to the building envelope - specifically turning their extant
> open-air porch into a sunroom. I would welcome suggestions about the
> processes used by other cohousing communities to adjudicate these sorts
> of requests.  Everyone is quite clear that the building envelope is
> "common", and thus renovations are issues for the group... so at least
> that distinction is clear.>>
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> Our experience during building was that changes to the plans that the group
> handled and became responsible for, were expensive for the group in terms
> of money... and in terms of the contractor, project manager and architect
> losing track of who was doing what, and in terms of managing the resulting
> hot discussions.   Also, we had some owner changes implemented during
> construction, and they are causing some condensation problems in a couple
> of houses...now, whose job is it now to handle any resulting water damage?
> Questions like this arise every once in a while, and I find them
> bedevilling.  It is so tempting in the development process to try to
> accomodate members "just for this one thing."  But as I am sure many others
> will respond, a very disciplined building process is necessary to bring
> your project in at budget and run a clean development process.
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> So IMHO it's a good idea to allow people to make their changes at their own
> expense after the project is built, and not to change either the drawings
> or submit change orders after things are well on their way.
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> Casey Morrigan
> Two Acre Wood
> Sebastopol, CA
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