Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousin_L Enclosed "street" between homes

[Joelyn Malone (JKMalone]

Someone may have mentioned this earlier: Monterey Cohousing Community in 
Minneapolis MN has an "underground covered walkway" that connects all of 
our new-construction townhouses to eachother and the townhouses to our 
1924 main house "Mansion". The mansion is built on a hillside so has a 
lower level with no windows on the high side of the hill but lots of 
windows on the lower side - where our kitchen and dining room are 
located. Okay, we do call it "the tunnel" - no other name has ever 
stuck. It didn't cost anything extra to build (well, hardly any) because 
it runs along the basement-level of the courtyard side of the 
townhouses, directly under them. There was no need to dig anything 
extra, except a short connecting tunnel between the townhouses and the 
main house, which is covered by a sidewalk above it. We do have one  
window, as  the townhouses are also built on a slope  so part of the 
tunnel is above-ground. And the exit at the end  opens at ground level. 
There's also a short  spur that leads to one of our parking areas (again 
with a door opening to ground level.)
Joelyn