East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Downtown Oakland Cohousing

Are you a future resident of a new-built cohousing community in downtown Oakland? You wouldn't even be receiving this meeting notice if you weren't interested in, and at least somewhat knowledgeable about, cohousing. So you probably also realize that it takes time, energy and money contributed by the future-resident group to get a cohousing community built. You probably also know that finding suitable sites at a reasonable cost in the bay area has been very difficult. So when a site like the one described here becomes available, we're inclined to jump at the chance to see if a future resident group (plus some outside investors) can be assembled.

It has come to our attention that a downtown Oakland development site already entitled with planning approvals for 40 market rate residential condos is for sale at a very reasonable cost. The site is on 14th Street, between MLK and Jefferson Streets, just five blocks away from Swan's Market Cohousing with which many readers of this notice will be familiar. The approved plans are available for your viewing at: http://www.632fourtee....

When looking at the floor plans, right away we started to think about how, with some relatively minor design changes, the square footage currently planned for 2 or 3 units on either Level 1 or Level 7 could be converted to a common house including 715 square feet of outdoor space on either level.

We sent Cohousing Partners (the development arm of the former Cohousing Company) this info, and Katie McCamant responded "......I'd love to work with a group that is ready to take advantage of this opportunity. . . but need someone else to initiate the community." That means "a community ready to jump in and put up some money to tie up the site."

So we decided to call a meeting to bring together those who would like to explore starting a future-resident group for this site. That meeting was held in the common house at Swan's Market Cohousing (just two blocks from 12th Str. BART) on Friday, July 10. Persons not interested in living in cohousing, but who might wish to invest in such a project were also most welcome.

FOLLOWUP The initial core group that came together decided not to pursue this particular site but is now meeting and considering other possibilities in the area.

Joani Blank
Cohousing Enthusiast at Swans Market Cohousing

Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris
Cohousing Coaches, EBCOHO

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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.