Cohousing-L Mailing List: language or experience help needed to persuade Planning Board that 6 unit max per building

....is not the most environmental way to build homes.

Our cooperative cohousing and hospitality business project is making  

good progress.  Right now we would like to persuade the Lyme (NH)  

Planning Board that the existing zoning language, which limits multi- 

unit buildings to no more than 6 units, is unnecessarily restrictive.

Can anyone point us to experience and/or language that will help us.   

We are building in a rural area, in a town of 1800 people, near a  

village center. Almost all homes in town are single family.  We know  

that we have a better chance to build less expensive homes if they  

don't have to be stand alones. We also know in our cold climate that  

it is less expensive to heat shared-walled spaces and that we are  

much more likely to use the common house as a real living room,  

library, etc, if we don't have to put on boots, etc just to get there.

Does anyone on this list have data and/or experience that can help?   

thanks!  liz

Liz Ryan Cole
Pinnacle Project
Lyme, NH
lizryancole [at] mac.com
www.PinnacleProject.info
Home 802.785.4124
Work 802.831.1240

language or experience help needed to persuade Planning Board that 6 unit max per building	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancolemac.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:16:18 -0800 (PST)