Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Smoking in the Co-housing Complex

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

Interesting...

Reminds me of one cohousing community I lived in where we had this  
very conversation, but the smoking material was not tobacco, and  
exposure to children came into the picture as well.

Chris


On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:50 AM, Dahako [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hi -
>
> If the balconies are limited common elements and the courtyard is a  
> common
> element, as is true here in Eastern Village, then you can ban  
> smoking in all
> LCEs and CEs and the banks won't mind.
>
> Then you just have to plan the HVAC in the individual units so it is
> properly separated and smoke cannot cross from one unit to  
> another.  And  get an
> expectation in place that folks who smoke will do so outside away  
> from  the units,
> or in their own units with the doors and windows closed and a fan  on.
>
> -Jessie Handforth Kome
> Eastern Village Cohousing
> Silver Spring, MD
> "Where we are starting to plan a DIY tile countertop for the buffet- 
> to-be  in
> the dining room, which is really two extra cabinets scavenged from
> construction."
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