Cohousing Bus Tour (San Francisco Bay Area)
Curious about Cohousing? A personal visit to a variety of cohousing
communities offers you an experience that no photo, website or book can
offer. To provide you with this opportunity, the Cohousing Association of
the United States (Coho/US) sponsors daylong tours of cohousing
communities in several areas around the nation. You are cordially invited
to join us on this bus tour and "traveling workshop" led by two local and
knowledgeable cohousing residents. This tour will focus on the wonderful
variety of Cohousing communities in San Francisco's East Bay. We are
planning to visit Swan's Market, Temescal Creek and Temescal Commons in
Oakland, then Pleasant Hill, Berkeley and Doyle Street in Emeryville. As
you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the tour leader(s) will
give participants a chance to introduce themselves, share general
information about cohousing, answer questions, provide fact sheets and
site plans, and prepare you for your 40-minute visit to each community. At
each stop, a community host (often a long-time resident) will guide your
group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions. Around
mid-day, we eat lunch, which we sometimes get to eat in one of the
communities' common houses with some of the residents. Optional gourmet
boxed lunch or bring your own. Cohousing communities offer nurturing
places where people of all ages grow and age well. Cohousing is a type of
collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the
design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are
consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design
encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain
all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to
extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground
and a common house. We look forward to having you join us for a day full
of learning, community building and fun.
About The Cohousing Association of the United States:
The Cohousing Association exists to promote the awareness and development
of cohousing and to provide sustenance to existing and forming cohousing
communities in the United States and beyond. Cohousing is a type of
collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the
design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Building a more
sustainable world, one neighborhood at a time.
When:
Saturday March 20, 2010
8:30 AM -
5:30 PM
Pacific
Where:
Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland,
Downtown Oakland,
Oakland, CA 94607
Organizer:
The Cohousing Association of the United States
Cost:
$95.
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