Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Very quick question

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Songaia Common House: 3,400 for 13 homes - but according to Meltzer's study
(as published in his book) we have an unusually high ratio. Our common house
was retro-fitted from an existing single-family home - I'm sure we wouldn't
have built that much if new, like 10/13 of our homes. I think the most
critical issue is how participatory your community will actually be. Perhaps
this is another question which would be good to include in a future
census...

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Tom Hammer <thammer302 [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> We have a very quick question with an answer needed urgently (by
> Sunday a.m.):
>
> we have a developer who is suggesting a 2500 sq ft common house for 34
> families.
>
> This seems small to me, and we could really use your quick estimate of
> the sq ft of your common house and how many households it serves.  We
> could then come up with  sq ft/household and see if our developer's
> figures make sense.   .
>
> Sorry about the urgency: we have a landowner who wants an offer by
> Monday, and a pro forma from the developer sent to us today that has
> us asking lots of questions.
>
> many thanks,
>
> Tom Hammer
> for Concord Ecovillage
> Chester County, PA
>
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