Puyallup Cohousing

Description:

BACKGROUND:
We started to create our forming group in January 2020, only to have covid throw a wrench in our plans. Now, as of September 2024, we’re almost ready to rock and roll. Along the way we adopted sociocracy as our governance model after several of us took a class from Diana Leafe Christian and have started to use the techniques in our weekly meetings.

LAND:
We are fortunate that one of our members owns a 10 acre farm that is zoned for residential development, removing one huge hurdle for forming groups. We spent the last 2 years working with a civil engineer doing engineering studies to verify that a cohousing community could be built on the land. We’ve shared the results of the studies with Pierce County, WA and see no red flags.

LOCATION
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The farm is two miles east of downtown Puyallup, which is 35 miles south of Seattle and 15 miles east of Tacoma. The property has a gorgeous view of Mt. Rainier, easy access to the Sounder commuter rail north to Seattle and south to Tacoma and Lakewood. We’re less than 1/2 mile from a 20+ mile walking/biking trail called the Foothills trail. Local plans are to extend this trial to the boundary of our site which would allow off-highway walking access to both Puyallup and Sumner downtowns!

CURRENT STATUS:
We expect to have more concrete development plans, including site and unit layouts by the end of 2024 and expect to become more focused on membership, marketing and finance/legal then. Our hope is to develop in phases with the first community targeted to be ~45-50 people on 4 acres of land.

GET INVOLVED:
If you are interested in influencing the start of a new cohousing community in Puyallup, Washington then go to the website at PuyallupCohousing.org for more information and fill out the contact form – we would love to talk to you!