Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Very quick question

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorliz]

Ours started at 5000 sf for 34 households and I believe in the end  
will be 4500sf.
We can really seat everyone for a common dinner, but it will be very  
tight, 75% will be quite comfortable.

Of course it just got drywall recently, no paint, but it'll be ready  
October 1, we hear!
It seems large, but felt like the most important thing to for us to  
spend money on. Personally I'm quite pleased with that decision.

An important criteria for us was to have several rooms of different  
sizes (huge, big, medium, small, and cozy) so that we can change our  
minds and use the rooms differently, but we'll have a variety of  
sizes to choose from for a given purpose.

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
PastorLiz [at] verizon.net
Mosaic commons, Berlin MA
Where I'm dreaming of the sewing machine stored in the crafts closet  
in the rec room.
Moving in this fall, units still available, come join us.
www.sawyerhill.org


On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Craig Ragland wrote:

> 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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