Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Workshop Maintenance and Bike Parking

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

At Mosaic Commons in Berlin MA, a community of triplex and duplex Town
homes, each home has an attached shed big enough for 2 bikes, or other
stuff, but mostly not both. Also, most households are bigger than 2.

We also have a basement in the common house with a really cool ramp
for bicycles to be walked down into the basement.

Then accessibility requirements put a hand rail on that ramp, making
it less perfect. And it's steep.

So in the common house basement we have storage for bikes that are
never or rarely used, and in our sheds we have individual storage for
some bikes. We've added some bike racks in common bike parking areas,
many folk just put their bike along the rack, blocking the entire
rack. Smaller bikes are often just dropped.

I  don't have advice as to what you *do* want to do, but I can hold
ours up as an example of something we thought about, did something
about, and it accomplished...not as much as we hoped.

Liz
www.mosaic-commons.org


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Kathy Tymoczko
<kathy.tymoczko [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "maintain the workshop".  Nearly all
> of the tools and other items (nuts, bolts, screws, WD-40, paint, etc.) were
> donated by members of the community or purchased by someone or by a Team
> for a project.  The Facilities Team is nominally responsible for
> "maintaining" (and possibly) organizing the workshop, but in actuality,
> it's really one person who's on Facilities who does that.  We have a
> sign-out sheet for use when people want to borrow things (electric drills,
> ladders, whatever) from the workshop.  The workshop has no budget.
>
> The Bike Team is responsible for the organization and upkeep of the bike
> storage room.  They have a small annual budget.
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> sharonvillines.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just saw a picture of Daybreak’s workshop and bike storage. But there is
>> no way to contact a person in the community — only the webmaster about
>> problems with the site.
>>
>> I would like to know how Daybreak and other communities maintain their
>> workshop.
>>
>> Sharon
>> ----
>> Sharon Villines
>> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
>> http://www.takomavillage.org
>>
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> Portland, Oregon
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-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
www.mosaic-commons.org
508-450-0431