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

[Mac Thomson (macthomson]

These responses have been very helpful.

Thank you!

-- 
Mac Thomson

Heartwood Cohousing
Southwest Colorado
http://www.heartwoodcohousing.com


"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn 
bushes have roses."
        - Abraham Lincoln
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> On May 22, 2026, at 11:02 AM, Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant [at] 
> cohousing-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
> 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>
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