East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

April 11, 2010 1:00 PM. 21 attended.

Temescal Creek Cohousing is growing; nextdoor duplex 4 sale Sunday open house

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Temescal Creek cohousing, the East Bay's first "retrofit cohousing neighborhood," is growing -- and you could be a part of it; details below. The 12-home (last we checked) community, in North Oakland's Temescal neighborhood, not too far from Rockridge and MacArthur BART, Piedmont Avenue's restaurant row, and 51st & Broadway shopping, was featured in an article in Cohousing magazine (January, 2005):
Retrofit cohousing: A different kind of fixer-upper.

The community was founded in 1999, in escrow after just three months of meetings. Members bought three adjacent 1920s duplexes, and later two more houses nextdoor, with gradual expansion since then.
Later, it created a common house with a unit above; selling the unit helped pay for the Common House, which was financed using individual home-equity lines of credit.

See our photo album and community info page for more on this unique dog-free neighborhood.

Neighboring duplex for sale -- Open Houses (April, 2010)

A duplex on 49th Street near Broadway in North Oakland's Temescal neighborhood, adjacent to Temescal Creek Cohousing, is for sale. The building has been occupied by an associate member (plus a daycare program), and the community hopes to find someone interested in community participation at a deeper level, more formally connecting.

Here's the text from the seller's flyer:
321 / 323 49th Street in Oakland California is a unique living opportunity.
These Two 2-bedroom / 1-bathroom homes with social kitchens, back decks and a ‘magical’ backyard are a dream come true for anyone. Over 1000 square feet each, both homes include a comfortable living room, formal dining room and a shared, full height basement with two separate garages and ample storage. Located in Temescal, one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the Bay Area, adjacent to the Temescal Creek Cohousing this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for individuals, couples or families.

1926 Craftsman Duplex
Two - 2 bed/1 bath Flats
Over 1000 s.f. each
Hardwood Floors
Living Room
Formal Dining Room
Working Fireplace
Deck off of Kitchen
Level, landscaped Garden
Some Retrofitting
Mostly Copper Pipes
Off Street Parking
Two - Separate Garages
Ample Storage
Walkscore of 91

$950,000 (Upper home $485,000; Lower Home $465,000)

There will be two open houses, in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday April 10th and 11th.
Both run from 1-4 PM, with orientations at 2 and 3 PM.

If you decide that you are interested in the duplex, please be sure to attend one of the orientations offered by the cohousing community. Orientations in the community's common house will share information about community norms and expectations as well as the process for considering the community prior to joining.
If you plan to attend an open house, please RSVP either on this page for Sunday or on the other MeetUp for Saturday.

Raines Cohen
Karen asked me to make sure it was clear that Temescal Creek Cohousing is a dog-free community.

Posted April 8, 2010 at 5:59 AM
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Betsy Morris
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Audra Lehman

Very interesting possibility there. Great community.
Karen
Jen Siegel
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 2/26/2011
ken
Karen Hester
Temescal Creek cohouser and retrofit coho guru

+10 guests
John S. Rodriguez
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 6/8/2010
Judith Gussmann
Community Housing group leader
carol zabin
Anne Bader
Leah Rothstein

Berkeley, CA

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.

East Bay Cohousing is a labor of love organized by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris, and a project of Planning for Sustainable Communities.