Cohousing-L Mailing List: Minimum number of units

[Sanna McKim (sanna]

I agree with Jerry. I've been to a cute one in Denmark with six units and they 
are friendly with each other but mostly just live as regular neighbors. 

Sanna McKim
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage
Midcoast Maine
207-505-1633

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Today's Topics:

  1. Minimum number of units (John Goldberg)
  2. Re: Minimum number of units (Sharon Villines)
  3. Re: Minimum number of units (Jerry McIntire)


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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:02:41 -0700
From: John Goldberg <johngoldberg [at] hotmail.com>
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I would like to know the number of units of the smallest Cohousing communities 
and people's opinions about the smallest number of units necessary for a viable 
Cohousing community. Thank you 

John Goldberg


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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:27:19 -0400
From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Minimum number of units
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> On Sep 11, 2014, at 3:02 PM, John Goldberg <johngoldberg [at] hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I would like to know the number of units of the smallest Cohousing 
> communities and people's opinions about the smallest number of units 
> necessary for a viable Cohousing community. Thank you 
> 
> John Goldberg
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:56:10 -0500
From: Jerry McIntire <jerry.mcintire [at] gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Minimum number of units
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Hello John,

> From our planning in a rural area of Wisconsin, and from my experience
studying small group communication in university, I'd say twelve is the
minimum. When there are fewer, it is too easy to divide into factions and
it is more difficult to spread the work to be done sufficiently. Looking at
it more positively, you can build a more diverse community that benefits
from the unique contributions of a number of different thinkers when you
have twelve or more.

Because of the small size of our market (the largest town in our county is
5,000 people) we have set our minimum at twelve. We hope to have 15 or 18
homes when we're finished. We have the space on our property which is
twelve acres.

Jerry

-- 
Jerry McIntire
Stone's Throw Ecovillage, in the heart of Wisconsin's beautiful Driftless
region
http://stonesthrowcommunity.wordpress.com/
1-608-637-8018


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM, John Goldberg <johngoldberg [at] hotmail.com>
wrote:

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> I would like to know the number of units of the smallest Cohousing
> communities and people's opinions about the smallest number of units
> necessary for a viable Cohousing community. Thank you
> 
> John Goldberg
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