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

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

On Nov 22, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:

> 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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