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

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

Doesn't "the" cohousing book have a picture of a covered walkway in one 
of the Danish
communities, or am I dreaming ? :)

Racheli, Sonora Cohousing, Tucson.



On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Joelyn Malone wrote:

> 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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