Tag: Zoning-regulations


Planning and Zoning Commission – Support for your Application

Submitted by Alice Alexander, Coho/US Executive Director on
I recently had the opportunity to speak before a City/County Planning Commission in support of Village Hearth Cohousing in Durham, North Carolina. Many of you will remember – or are gearing up for – addressing issues of parking, road access, home clustering and more, to obtain approval for building. If helpful, I am sharing my... Read More

Yarrow Ecovillage: Cohousing as a Building Block to the Ecovillage

Submitted by Charles Durrett, Katie McCamant on
Published in Communities Magazine #171: Ecovillages Around the World Following the first cohousing community in the United States, Muir Commons in Davis, California, cohousing has not only continued to expand throughout the US and Canada, it has also become a model for other housing types (seniors housing, nonprofit affordable housing), and a building block for... Read More

Intentional Communities: Informing the Next Generation of Land Use Law?

Submitted by Robert Boyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte on
[Editor’s Note: Reprinted from Communities Magazine by Robert Boyer, an Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte. Robert has researched cohousing and ecovillage initiatives around the world, and was an enthusiastic participant at the 2015 National Cohousing Conference.] Throughout the last century, multiple public and private institutions have distanced citizens f
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Moving to an Established Community Rather than Creating A New

Submitted by Tom Lofft, Liberty Village Cohousing, Maryland on
In response to an inquiry on the coho-l email discussion group, about recommendations on connecting with people who might be interested in starting a community, Tom Lofft with Liberty Village Cohousing in Maryland responded: Hi all wannabes and start-up cohousers: I recommend that any small group in particular, especially those who are thinking of breaking... Read More

Land Use Regulations, Urban Planners, and Intentional Communities

Submitted by Robert Boyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte on
[Editor’s Note: This article reprinted from Communities Magazine is authored by Robert Boyer, an Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte. Robert has researched cohousing and ecovillage initiatives around the world, and was an enthusiastic participant at the 2015 National Cohousing Conference.] We love our property rights in the United States. The... Read More