Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urban infill

[Richard Somerville (wolfwebmaster]

Re urban infill:
In Grass Valley, CA, the Wolf Creek Commons multigenerational community and 
Wolf Creek Lodge adult community, both in the planning process, are a classic 
example of urban infill projects. Their wooded 8-acre site is surrounded by 
commercial development and single-family housing, but it slopes away toward a 
creek, offering  a surprising level of privacy and quiet even in an urban 
setting.

Rich Somerville
www.wolfcreekcommons.org


cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:21:07 -0700
From: "Casey Morrigan" 
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cooperative neighbors and neighbornets, Definition
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I would call Two Acre Wood, in Sebastopol, California, an infill project.
However, it is in a small (7800 pop.) town, not in an urban setting. Same is
true of FrogSong in Cotati - a "small-town infill." Hey - it's a new
category!

Sounded like Jackson Place in Seattle is urban infill. Anyone from there
want to chime in on that? 

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol  

-----Original Message-----
From: create2gro [at] aol.com [mailto:create2gro [at] aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:55 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cooperative neighbors and neighbornets,Definition of
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Dear cohousing-l,
 
Can anyone refer us to another example of an Urban "Infill" Neighborhood
other than the Nomad Cohousing Community?
 
Thanks!
 
HOLISTIC NEIGHBORS
create2gro [at] aol.com 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: fholson [at] cohousing.org
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cooperative neighbors and neighbornets, Definition of
Terms

Hannah  wrote:

> I just received Zev & Neshama's ELDER COHOUSING UPDATE.  There they 
> speak of Nomad Cohousing Community, an Urban "Infill" Neighborhood.
>
> Can anyone Compare and Contrast these terms, please:
> 1) Cooperative Neighborhood
> 2) "Infill" Neighborhood
> 3) Neighbornet
> 4) Retrofit Cohousing

These terms (1,2,4) do not have widely accepted definitions in my experience
and they do overlap. Various writers use these or other variations of thse
terms. Here's my ad hoc attempt to define them.

I tried to promote the use of the term  Retrofit Cohousing to mean a
cohousing like community developed in existing housing with little or no
reconstruction of the physical facitlies.  It involves a turnover of the
population - typically as current residents move out of their own volition.
It has also been called "organic cohousing".  The premier example is N
street cohousing.  See link via my page:
http://mn.cohousing.org/retrofit/
(note that this page needs updating - suggestions encouraged - email me.
Unfortunately both terms conjure other interpretations and have been used
differently on occasion.  The cohousing-L archives contain this term often (
http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/  (with search form)

 "Infill" Neighborhood  "Infill" is often used to refer to development on a
relatively small parcel of land surounded by already developed land that is
not changing.  Usually proposals for such parcels are compatible with
existing uses which limits how they can be developed (as well as the size
and shape etc of the parcel.

Cooperative Neighborhood.  I dont recall a/the specific use of this term

 ( possibly in the 1995 book: _Rebuilding Community in America_, by Ken
  Norwood, AICP and Kathleen Smith.)  I presume it refers to a neighborhood
with some intentional effort to build or facilitate community building.
 I am unaware of any size limits implied.

Neighbornets is a term used by some folks in Seattle who are trying to build
residential intentional community amongst (mostly - this is the opposite of
cohousing) existing residents of city communities but they are not as
compact as cohousing.  From their web site (link via retrofit pg above).

 Neighbornets are a way that people organize themselves within
neighborhoods based on shared values, shared needs, and shared interests.
 "Sharing" is a key word in neighbornets. Participants in neighbornets
share resources, time, and friendship with one another.

 Another important characteristic of neighbornets is "proximity" or
"place." Members of any given neighbornet always live, work, or spend  time
in the same general area. They may live next door, several blocks  away,
work at the corner store, or ride their bike from a mile away.

Fred

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:45:38 -0700
From: "David L. Mandel" 
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We're one of the originals in the infill category: 25 homes, 1.3 acres, old 
neighborhood in downtown Sacramento, straddling an alley and oddly shaped to 
fit in part of the block alongside other houses.

Also Emeryville and Oakland communities, though the difference there is that 
they rehabbed old industrial buildings in areas that were just starting to 
see residential development.

David Mandel, Southside Park

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Casey Morrigan" 
To: "'Cohousing-L'" 
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:21 PM
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>
> Sounded like Jackson Place in Seattle is urban infill. Anyone from there
> want to chime in on that?
>
> Casey Morrigan
> Two Acre Wood
> Sebastopol
>