Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Eliminate the 4 bedrooms

[Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand]

We are also in the unit planning stage in Arboretum Cohousing  
(Madison, WI).  Our thinking now is to have 40 units with a mix of

8 1BR
24 2BR
6 3BR
1 4BR
1 5BR

The 4/5 BR are from existing houses (10 units).
We did eliminate 4BR from the new units, knowing we had 2 4/5 BR  
units already.

In the process of looking at this issue, I did a small survey of what
other Cohousing has done.  Since an attachment won't work on this list,
go to http://coco.doit.wisc.edu/~hoymand/cohousing/Arbco%20Unit% 
20Mix.pdf
to see the report done for our members on 5-Nov.
I took the data from 2 sources, Graham Meltzer's "Sustainable  
Communities"
and cohousing.org/community web sites.  10 communities from Meltzer  
and 5 from
cohousing.org.  There isn't a lot of data here, so one has to be  
cautious
about making projections on trend, but from this much I'd say you'd
want 2 4BR units.  In part, it depends on what you see the mix of  
adult/child being.

It would be nice if there were more data like this being collected,  
say by
cohousing.org.

--Dirk

On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Tim Clark wrote:

> We have planned two 4 bedroom units into our 36 unit urban community.
>
> In an effort to standardize and have as few designs as possible we  
> are toying with the idea of dropping the 4 bedrooms.  The only  
> thing slightly different in our configuration is that we are  
> planning to have 4 small offices in the common house.
>
> The mix would be:
> 4 1BR
> 14 2BR
> 18 3 BR
>
> Your thoughts Please
>
> Tim
>
>
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