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

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Joelyn, is "The Tunnel" used? Just during "bad" weather?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Joelyn Malone <JKMalone [at] comcast.net>
wrote:

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> 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
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