Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urban Infill

[Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand]

I'm playing tag team with Carey :-), we are both part
of the Arbco plannning team.

Arbco was fortunate to have the opportunity to acquire
existing houses and land from a hospital that wished
to expand the "other direction".  These have been rentals
for some time, many of the tenants are university students.

In looking at which of the existing houses to
preserve, Arbco took into consideration:
* building condition
* desire to create green housing
* site placement of new housing
* overall costs

Early on in our planning process, we determined which
homes were worth keeping.  We do have a desire both
economically and environmentally to keep as many existing
homes as we can.  We also early on decided to NOT renovate
existing single family homes, letting the new owner put in
their sweat equity if they so desired.

We have ended up with a plan that calls for 40 units
all together, 8 of which are in existing houses.
You can see in our site plan at http://arboretumcohousing.org
that the existing homes are interspersed with the new units.

--Dirk

On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:31 PM, create2gro [at] aol.com wrote:

>  We would also like to preserve existing housing.
> Can you say how you accomplished that?
>
> HOLISTIC NEIGHBORS
> create2gro [at] aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arbcoho [at] yahoo.com
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Sent: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Urban Infill
>
>
> In Madison, Wisconsin, both Village Cohousing and soon-to-fly  
> Arboretum
> Cohousing are urban infill, built on small parcels (both purchased  
> from
> hospitals) in an older (~1930's) residential neighborhood about 12  
> blocks from
> the State Capitol building. Both also mix new construction and  
> preservation of
> existing housing. When Arboretum is finished, they will be located  
> just 5 blocks
> apart -- tripling the Potluck Power of the neighborhood!
>
>   Carey Dachik
>   www.arboretumcohousing.org
>
>
> www.arboretumcohousing.org
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--
Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Member of Arboretum Cohousing
Madison, WI
http://arboretumcohousing.org