Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Do you love your pathways?

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

I was the developer (and my firm was the architects) for Pleasant Hill 
Cohousing. Lessons learned the hard way:

Never use decomposed granite (DG) for your main pathways
People actually really don’t like gravel driveways/parking lot aisles even if 
they are more environmentally friendly. In another project, we were successful 
at using gravel in the parking spaces with asphalt for the drive lanes.

Concrete and asphalt have their place… and good concrete central pathways will 
get lots of use, especially by the kids.  Research has shown hard surfaces get 
much more play time than grassing areas.

Katie
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions
www.cohousing-solutions.com<http://www.cohousing-solutions.com>