Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Floor Plans

[Linda Gryczan (lindagryczan]

Absolutely. When we built a straw bale house some years ago, we saw how a ramp 
made it easier to bring in firewood, and lever door handles meant children 
could open a door, as well as someone carrying am armload of groceries. With 
that said, we don’t have the room for all units to be on ground level, and 
don’t have the number of units to make an elevator practical. 

Linda Gryczan

> On Apr 28, 2025, at 12:17 PM, Bonnie Fergusson via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> Encourage you to remember that we are all only temporarily abled since we 
> will eventually need many of those accessible features as we age and 
> sometimes earlier in case of accident or surgery.  Make all units accessible 
> would be my recommendation.Bonnie FergussonSwans Market CohousingOakland, CA
> 
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> On Monday, April 28, 2025, 10:11 AM, Linda Gryczan <lindagryczan [at] 
> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The plans I most like are from Frog Song https://www.cotaticohousing.org/ and 
> Fair Oaks Ecohousing https://www.fairoaksecohousing.org/ who appeared to use 
> the same architect. Others I looked at will not be for sale. To ensure age 
> diversity in a small development, I would like to have an accessible unit on 
> the bottom floor and an identical unit on the 2nd. We’re at the stage where I 
> need to draw some rectangles on our survey for a visit to the building 
> department. Erik Bonnett, the architect for cohousing in Bozeman, MT is going 
> to send me the floor plan for a 4 plex he designed and lives in. 
> 
> Linda Gryczan
> Helena, MT
> 
>> On Apr 27, 2025, at 8:24 AM, Patricia Bik <p.louisebik [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Congratulations Linda!  You are moving forward!  Have to contacted Fred 
>> Easy, by chance?  He has recently dropped loads of bricks on his property, 
>> but I would be very surprised if he actually did something with them. .
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2025, at 1:16 AM, Linda Gryczan <lindagryczan [at] gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am working on building a 4-6 unit pocket neighborhood and looking for two 
>>> story floor plans. 
>>> 
>>> I envision an accessible unit on the first floor with an identical unit on 
>>> the second. 
>>> 
>>> Regular house plans tend to have the garage as a prominent feature. Urban 
>>> cohousing designs are too big. Townhouses are multi story single units. 
>>> 
>>> Can any of you direct me towards existing floor plans that combine 
>>> accessibility with compact design, and follow Cohousing design features 
>>> such as common space and parking cars elsewhere?
>>> 
>>> Linda Gryczan
>>> Helena, MT
>>>> 
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