Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing communities within larger condo associations

[Joelyn Malone (JKMalone]

Has anyone out there had experience with creating a cohousing community 
within a larger condo or apartment building? Farmers market Flats 
Cohousing, St Paul MN will be one floor of a 5-story building . An 
indoor farmer's market will be on the first floor, and the rest will be 
condos. One of the residential floors is reserved for the cohousing 
community.
My question is, how do your legal documents fit in with the legal 
documents for the rest of your development?  Swan's Market is the only 
possible example that I can think of. I'm aware that their cohousing 
community is pretty self-contained; but I believe there are other 
housing units also as part of the actual building/structure.
Can someone from Swan's Market, or other communities that have this 
situation, tell me how your legal structure works, vis-a-vis the rest of 
the development there? Are your residents also part of a larger 
community association (e.g., a condo association-within a condo 
association)? Have you had problems with this? Can you give me advice on 
what pitfalls to avoid? Thanks!
From Joelyn at Monterey Cohousing, Minneapolis,
where we're madly raking leaves and hoping to beat the first snowfall.