Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community hot tub?

[Kevin Wolf (kevin]

At N Street, the hot tub is owned by one family who then lets their 
friends use it. Their friends who use  it make an annual contribution 
to cover heating and maintenance costs. It is not a "community" hot 
tub.
Kevin

> Hi all --
>
> We've recently had a painful experience of designing a great hot tub
> enclosure and researching the hot tub we wanted for our community --
> only to be told by the building department (contradicting their
> earlier assurances) that our hot tub would be classified as a public
> swimming pool and thus have to meet much more stringent (and
> expensive -- like $15K extra) codes.
>
> If your community has figured out creative ways to install a community
> hot tub, I'd love to hear about it.  Call it private?  Negotiate with
> the inspectors? Other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
> Frog Song (Cotati, CA)
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