[Scpg] "It's (hi)Time for Community in America"

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hiya cohousers et al -
here's the haps from ken norwood of shared living resources...
peace
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Here is an update regarding the tour series, there are still some spaces

open on the tour bus. But they usually go fast by the last week.

November 10 Tour  reservations are already coming in.

Wake-Up Call  2001

"It is Time for Community in America"

 Next Tour: Saturday, November 10, 2001, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.


The Shared Living Resource Center (SLRC) Tours of Cohousing and

Cooperative Communities is for families, couples, & singles seeking

Cohousing, AND, city officials, planners, architects, lenders, and for

profit and non-profit housing developers. see www.SharedLiving.org


These tours, by Ken Norwood AICP, Architect-Planner, address the need

for Family-Friendly Livable Communities, Sustainable Development, and

protection of Farmland & Open Space while creating private living places

and common places in ecological  villages.


Should you not be able to make this tour, the 2002 Tour Schedule is

February 16, and May 11.  Be sure to sign-up at least a month in

advance.

<www.sharedliving.org>


Tour  Arrangements

Tour Cost is $75, bring your lunch;  Reservations, call 510-548-6608;

Pay by check to SLRC Tour, address below, or by charge card on phone or

email <slrcnorwood at earthlink.net>.

Cancellation Policy:  $50 refund before Nov. 1. and  $35 refund for

later cancellations  only if all bus seats are taken by someone else

before November 9th.

Lunch:    Important!  Bring your lunch to eat in the "N" Street

Cohousing's totally redesigned backyards” a must see.  There is no room

on the schedule for stops at a store.

Meeting Place & Time:  Meet at 2337 #9 Parker Street @ 8:00 a.m. on

September 15th.

Take I-80 to Ashby Ave. or University Ave. off ramps to Shattuck to

Parker, or  BART to dntn. Berkeley, & a 5 min. bike, AC Bus #40L to

Parker Street, or 10-15 min., walk South.

The SLRC Book and other books on community will be available.  The tour

price of  "Rebuilding Community in America:...."  will be $22.00

including tax  (reg'ly $24.50+ tax)


Livable Community Models for the 21st Century


- Doyle Street Cohousing, Emeryville, Calif. (45 min. visit) This was a

factory building redesigned for in-town housing of 12 varied size units,


with a common kitchen, dining, and social area, laundry, workshop,

playroom, decks, and a hot tub.  It was the first in the Bay area..


- Swans Marketplace Cohousing, Oakland, Calif..  NEW in 2000! (45 min.

visit)   These 20 units and a common house, with kitchen, dining, and

other amenities, are part of the historic preservation of the old Swans

Market in a mixed use downtown transit-neighborhood.


-  Pleasant Hill Cohousing, Pleasant Hill, Calif.  NEW in 2001! (30 to

45 min. visit) Another urban infill Cohousing, 32 units and common house

on 2.2 acres.

Mixed ages and family types, next to the Iron Horse Trail with easy

access to BART.


-  N Street Cohousing, Davis, Calif.:  (Lunch Stop, 1-1/4 hr. visit) 14

adjacent existing 2-4 bedrm. houses and back yards  joined as one

community, with amenities: a sauna, hot tub, chickens, play areas, etc.

The first fence was removed in 1989, and in 1992 the common house was

remodeled from an existing house. (We may do a drive-by of Muir Commons

Cohousing)


- Temescal Cohousing, Oakland, Calif.:  NEW in 2000! (45 min. visit)

This 9 unit community cluster shows how Cohousing can upgrade existing

older neighborhoods with a mix. of new infill development, reuse, and

the rehab. of a historic farm house.  It is ecologically designed with

many green building features and the roofs are made of solar panels.


- Berkeley Cohousing, Berkeley, Calif.:  (Drive-by & photo stop only)

This 14 unit mixed use new residential infill, reuse, and rehab cluster

on 3/4 acre began with the farm house many  years ago, which now is the

common house.  It is near the North Berkeley BART station.  .


- Parker Street Co-operative, Berkeley, Calif. (45 min. visit) This

Limited Equity Housing Cooperative (LEHC) is 24 one bedroom units in two


three story 54 year old buildings, with new common amenities created by

members who co-own/co-manage this  below market rate Co-op.


 IT IS TIME FOR CREATING SUSTAINABLE CITIES, REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING,

AND LIVING SMART GROWTH.  SEE WHY A COHOUSING COMMUNITY IS THE KIND OF

FAMILY-HOME-PLACE YOU WILL WANT FOR YOUR 21ST. CENTURY LIVING.