Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Very quick question

[Tom Hammer (thammer302]

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for all the wonderful and timely help regarding the  
question below.  We now have data from 25 communities about the sizes  
of their common houses which we'd be glad to share.  It's in Excel  
format.  Do we have a Google docs section where additions and  
corrections could easily be made?

Summary:  depending on whether or not we exclude outliers, the average  
sq feet per residence is 159 or 140, without and with outliers,  
respectively.
The regression analysis, forcing a y-intercept of zero, gives 146 sq  
ft of common house space per residence.

There are some details and qualifiers which you might be interested.

Tom Hammer
Concord Ecovillage
southern Chester County
--hoping to have an acceptance from a landowner today...
On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Tom Hammer 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...

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> Tom Hammer
> for Concord Ecovillage
> Chester County, PA