Katie and I gave a slide show in Nevada City, California in 1989. Between 1989 and 2002, inspired by the presentation, six different cohousing groups came and went. Finally, impatient with the progress and wanting to move to Nevada City ourselves, we went to Nevada City and, in a week, secured a site (optioned an eleven acre site with the right to sign it over to a group). A couple months later, 25 households were deep into the site plan, common house plan, and so on. Today, 57 adults (21 seniors) and 37 children live in 34 different houses in a bucolic cohousing setting. That project probably never would have happened if we hadn’t stepped up, because the previous six group had become too discouraged.
This is a new service that we will provide starting August 2009. We will come to town, help evaluate sites and the possibility of a group locally, and, if we believe in the site, we will help secure it with the intent of signing it over to the local group. We will be paid with a small fee to sign it over, and we will do this with the participation of the others currently involved locally.
Let us know if you’re interested.
Thanks,
Charles Durrett, Architect
916-716-6721