Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Reducing parking spaces

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Another consideration is that your members may acquire room-mates or 
renters, some of whom at least will want a parking space. There are way 
more renters/flatmates living here than we expected during our planning 
phase. Almost all of them have a car, even if they choose to ride a bike 
for many of their trips, and those cars need a parking space.

We have sufficient parking for our residents because it was a requirement 
of our zoning permit (one car per bedroom IIRC), though many of our 
founding members were certain we wouldn't need all those spaces. The main 
parking problem I'm aware of is accommodating large-scale guest parking 
when someone throws a big party or event in the CH. Also, we could really 
use a handicapped parking space near the front of the CH, but this has been 
stymied by the terrain and site design.

   Muriel
   Shadowlake Village Cohousing
   Blacksburg, VA


At 02:13 PM 6/19/2013, you wrote:
> Our forming community would like to minimize the number of parking spaces
> per unit.  We've been thinking of ways to discourage on-site parking (we
> live in a bike-friendly town near a bus stop).
>
> Doug Hanvey
> Bloomington Cohousing
> Bloomington, Indiana