Getting It Built

One Day Workshop: Wed 8:30 – 5:00
Price: $95

This workshop will give participants an overview of organizing, planning, and designing a cohousing community with emphasis on the steps necessary for site acquisition and learning from the lessons of other cohousing groups. It is most powerful when several people from the same group take the workshop together so that several participants have an understanding of the process ahead. The GIB Workshop covers:
- Group Formation
- Group Process
- Project Financing
- Design Issues
- Government Approval Process
- Finding and Purchasing Land
- Recruiting New Members


PRESENTER: A licensed architect and co-author of the book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, Kathryn McCamant founded McCamant & Durrett Architects and The CoHousing Company with her husband, Charles Durrett in 1987. The firm, with offices in Berkeley and Nevada City, California, specializes in sustainable design, cohousing, affordable housing, urban planning, and childcare facilities. In 2006, she founded CoHousing Partners with Jim Leach, a cohousing development company, of which she is now president. CP is currently working on projects in Fresno and Grass Valley, CA. She sat on the CohoUS Board for six years from its initial founding. Kathryn lives with her husband and teenage daughter in the Nevada City Cohousing Community. They previously lived at Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, California for 12 years.