Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Re: Garages

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

We have carports, not garages.  We had originally planned on garages, but 
cut them to come in at budget during construction. Since it's northern 
california the worst we face is heavy rain in the winter so the weather 
protection is adequate.

They are perfectly fine; they are clustered in one quadrant of the 
property, which seems an ideal placement for us.  One carport is the 
community workspace, but it isn't completely enclosed. Their location in 
the one quadrant means that it is a walk, on stairs, for 5 of our 14 
households. So far that's ok but it might not be ok later--"aging in place" 
will be hard if mobility is impaired for any of those residents.

Something I didn't anticipate is that some community members store many 
many items besides their cars in the car ports.    This is source of 
conflict in the community. If we had garages, we could close the doors on 
some members' tendencies to accumulate.  Also, it surprises me how this 
issue, small in comparison to issues of world peace, and hunger and 
poverty, gets under my skin. Who knew?

Casey M.
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol, CA

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