Cohousing-L Mailing List: Tonight's Web Chat on Retrofit Cohousing

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

O hey!

Just got off the Web Chat on retrofit cohousing led by Alan O’Hashi (spell?) 
and hosted by Karen Hoskin from CohoUS.

Excellent pitch for building a cohousing community using existing neighborhoods 
right where you are.  

If you are unfamiliar w/ retrofit cohousing, suggest starting w/ learning about 
N Street Cohousing in Davis, CA — lots of good resources on its website.

http://nstreetcohousing.org/about

Temescal Creek Cohousing is another successful example of assembling homes in 
an existing neighborhood.  I’ve visited there and saw how the lot boundaries 
for each home disappeared into an amazingly well thought out landscape design 
that knit the individual homes together.

And check out Alan’s Web Chat which I understand will be posted to Youtube 
along w/ all the other Web Chats.  I’m assuming the link will be provided to 
our list.

If you live in a high rent district … retrofit cohousing — assembling existing 
housing stock into an identifiable community — may be an answer to the dilemma 
of finding a single site on which to build.  

BTW — next Web Chat Grace Kim is going to talk about sound abatement in Common 
Houses …  how many of us deal w/ THAT issue?

Thank you to Alan and Karen and CohoUS for this Web Chat.

:-)


Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Member, Board of Directors
Mid Atlantic Cohousing
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.  Steven 
Wright