East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

April 20, 2010 6:00 PM - 1 attended

GreenTRIP:Neighborhoods with less parking, more walkability (Oakland downtown)

TransForm's Oakland Office (map)

How can we get developments built with less parking and more walkability, making it easier to realize the vision of cohousing neighborhoods? Join EBCOHO members in attending an event to learn about new standards that can help make that possible, and meet some green developers and local elected officials supporting efforts in these directions.

Note: This is not an EBCOHO event, and not about cohousing as such. However, we believe it is valuable for people creating and visualizing living in cohousing to connect with and support people working on similar initiatives that share values... plus, widespread adoption of standards like these will make it easier to create cohousing, and to make it more affordable, with less money wasted on required parking spaces that a group won't need.

Learn how on April 20, when TransForm (formerly the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition) will talk about these issues and 'GreenTRIP', TransForm's new certification program.

For too long, outdated parking codes, traffic policies, zoning, and misconceptions have held back the kind of development that improves communities and enhances mobility for everyone. Instead, we see oceans of concrete where there could be parks, sidewalks, shops, and services.

GreenTRIP certifies new residential and mixed-use developments that keep the number of new parking spaces as low as possible and offer incentives for new tenants to drive less (such as deep discounts on transit passes).

GreenTRIP is proving that new developments can be built with less parking and more walkability – and as a result, reduce traffic and emissions. Five developments have been certified as "GreenTRIP" in San Jose, San Leandro, San Mateo, Berkeley, and Hayward as part of the pilot phase of the program.

We will showcase two of our GreenTRIP certified projects on April 20: Parker Place in Berkeley and The Crossings in San Leandro.

Guest speakers will include Mark Rhoades (City Centric, developer of Parker Place) and Michael Gregory (Councilmember, City of San Leandro).

Ann Cheng, the GreenTRIP program manager, will lead a lively discussion of the program.

Want to learn about parking issues from the master? Read Don Shoup's book, The High Cost of Free Parking.

The TransForum is on Tuesday, April 20 from 6:00-7:30pm at our Oakland office and will include time at the end for networking.

TransForums are free for TransForm members and $5 for non-members.
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Raines Cohen
Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer

Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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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.