Cohousing-L Mailing List: Rural cohousing with multi-use- Loch Lyme Lodge (a great vacation spot for cohousers!!! WAS Any urban co-housing communities with multi-use? (Alan Friedlob)

[Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancole]

Alan’s original question was about urban co-housing, but don’t forget that 
rural cohousing can be mixed use as well.  In our case, our now 100-year-old 
cabin-based hospitality business (check us out at LochLymeLodge.com) predates 
our cohousing neighborhood.  (Still trying to get zoning permission for the 
cohousing).  

But the 120 acres we bought included an existing cabin community and we love 
both.

We are a membership organization and members get benefits, like coming to our 
lovely gardens and clay tennis courts, swimming in our lake and discounts on 
what they spend.  Some of our members even live in cohousing elsewhere but for 
one reason or another want to spend a week or a summer here in Lyme, NH. 
Membership is required before you can consider buying a cabin or (in future) a 
home.

Mention this Cohousing-L posting and we’ll give you a 15% discount on your 
first cabin rental. 

We also offer a profit share for cabin owners - we share the profit your cabin 
generates with you (there is an assessment you have to meet before we calculate 
profit) 

And yes, we still plan to build cohousing on the 98 acres that are zoned for 
residential use - including, if we can pull it off, memory care and assisted 
living. 

So come check us out and yes, mixed use is a great option in the country as 
well as in town. 

:) liz

Liz Ryan Cole. she/her(s)
lizryancole [at] me.com

Pinnacle Project Cohousing
CohoUS, Board Member
Vermont Law School Professor Emerita
Loch Lyme Lodge and Cabins, Lyme, NH
LochLymeLodge.com

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> On Sep 27, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2024, at 10:03 AM, Fiona Frank <fionafrank [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Lancaster Cohousing in the UK owns Halton Mill, which has managed offices
>> and studios, a coworking space, and event space.  It runs as a separate
>> coop and pays rent to the cohousing project which is set to cover costs
>> rather than make a profit.
> 
> A wonderful idea. I’ve been thinking lately about what cohousing could do to 
> spread what it has learned about cooperative living to more areas of the 
> neighborhoods than just more cohousing communities. More cohousing 
> communities is wonderful and the numbers are increasing dramatically. Every 
> day I hear of communities that have never heard of that have been moved in 
> for 2-3 years. Not that I’m  a cohousing professional who is linked in but I 
> read cohousing L everyday and pay attention to cohousing in the news. 
> 
> Just a few years ago I attended a neighborhood committee meeting and was 
> shocked—shocked!—when a discussion ended and they took a vote! Voting? Fewer 
> than 10 people and you vote! Governance, organization, how to share are 
> skills and expectations that could be transferred by experienced cohousers.
> 
> (I do hope you have a reserve fund to pay for ongoing repair and replacement.)
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
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