Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: home occupations

[Tiffany Lee Brown (magdalen23]

it's exciting to read everyone's contributions to this discussion. the 
semi-rural community i hope to help instigate will be explicitly friendly to 
home-based businesses and creative entrepreneurs; the hope is that our 
community building would house not only community dinners, meetings, and yoga 
classes, but art studios and small offices for members to rent, and the 
occasional well-paying catered event, such as a wedding. i imagine that, or 
perhaps art/music/writing studios that could be used as offices dotted 
throughout the land. multiple revenue streams could be embedded from the 
outset, so that income from wellness, arts, small agriculture, artisan foods, 
and tourism is baked into the community. (so far, it seems this vision would be 
hard to mesh with the land-use laws in my home state, Oregon, so it may be this 
never actually happens or we head for Idaho.) 

anyway. thanks again for all the information, stories, and opinions.

-tiffany in oregon
 wannabe co-houser


On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Kathryn McCamant wrote:

> 
> I think having people working out of their homes can be a real benefit to
> the community, and likely to become increasingly popular as more and more
> people work independently.
> 
> I remember an early study that concluded about 30% of cohousers actually
> work full or part time from home.
> 
> Having more people working from home, and their clients coming and going,
> increases your security with more ³eyes on², reduces driving (and climate
> impact), and bring positive exposure to the community for future resales.
> For example, the lovely family that bought the house next door to me in
> Nevada City Cohousing, knew about the community because they brought their
> daughter to our common house for violin lessons. Having people working
> from home also means they are more likely to be around when the community
> needs someone to let in a repair person or other such things during the
> day. 
> 
> I would agree with Phillip, and suggest giving it a try, thinking about it
> optimistically, and if there are indeed problems that arise, then deal
> with them, or retract the option for people with more than a certain
> number of visitors for their business. But I¹d hate to see you not even
> give it a try before you know if there are really any issues. You might be
> surprized how little you even notice those other visitors.
> 
> Katie 
> -- 
> Kathryn McCamant, President
> CoHousing Solutions
> 241B Commercial Street
> Nevada City, CA 95959
> T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
> www.cohousing-solutions.com
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Tiffany Lee Brown
editor, plazm magazine
tiffany [at] plazm.com / magdalen23 [at] gmail.com