Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Developer-driven communities

[Ann Zabaldo (ann.zabaldo]

Hi all!

Sharon is correct.  There had been an active cohousing group in the DC
area in the early to mid 90's.  I met Don in '92.  He got control of
the Takoma Village site in '98 but by that time the group had quit
meeting.  Don hired me to organize a group around the TVC site.
Naturally ... I contacted as many members of the former group as
possible and two of the households joined and live here today. Don
used a standard development model of the developer assuming all
(almost all, that is) of the risk and maintaining the majority of the
control.

Now that the history lesson is out of the way ... Katie -- what's the
interest in the "Don Tucker" model?  Anything cookin' of interest to
this list?

-- 
Ann Zabaldo
Voice 202-291-7892
Fax 202-291-8594
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
McLean, VA

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Sharon Villines
<sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Katie Henry wrote:
>
>  > If I'm not mistaken, Don's first cohousing project, Takoma Village,
>  > wouldn't be considered truly developer-driven because an existing
>  > group (Ann Zabaldo et al) was recruiting him to do a cohousing project
>  > when he found the site. But I believe this was also a case of the main
>  > group being built around the site, instead of the other way around.
>
>  I'm not sure that is true. Ann is on the list but she is very busy now
>  and may not be reading.
>
>  Don had the site and approached Ann about whether it would work as
>  cohousing. She held the first meeting after she met him and he hired
>  her to do marketing and form the community. She had been working with
>  Liberty Village.
>
>  Don's idea was that half the site would be regular townhouses and the
>  rest cohousing. Ann got so many people interested, the whole thing
>  became cohousing.
>
>  Sharon
>  ----
>  Sharon Villines
>  Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
>  http://www.takomavillage.org
>
>
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