| Cohousing Community | Location | Planned or Built? | Contact | Site area | Number of units | Building types/units | Zoning/planning | Notes | ||
| Central Austin Cohousing | Austin TX | Planned | Robert P. Arjet rarjet@leamlink.emory.edu | 1-1.5 acres | 25-30 | attached units (townhouses and flats) | Want high density to increase affordability on urban site | |||
| Southside Park Cohousing | Sacramento CA | Built | Liz Stevenson tamgoddess@home.com | 1.25 acres | 25 units | http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing | ||||
| Cascadia Commons | Portland OR | Built | George Steon cccoho@easystreet.com | 2.87 acres (half is restricted wetlands) | 26 homes | 10 buildings+CH | ||||
| Wasatch Commons | Salt Lake City UT | Built | Kay Argyle argyle@mines.utah.edu | 4.5 acres | 26 units | 2-2flats; 5-2 story townhouse duplexes; 1- townhouse triplex; 1-townhouse fourplex; 1- detached house;1-fourplex w/3 single storey and 1townhouse = 10 total res. Blgs + CH and workshop | ||||
| Westwood Cohousing | Asheville NC | Built | Jean Reese jeanreese@juno.com | 4 acres | 25 units | 7 buildings + CH | ||||
| Solterra | Durham NC | partly built | Don Weil dweil20688@aol.com | 7 acres for homesites;13 acres common property | 40 homesites | individual homes + CH | Common property includes community garden, children's play ground, paths, parking, roads, CH | |||
| Heartwood Cohousing | Durango CO | built, with 10 more future homesites | Mac Thomson ganesh@rmi.net | 361 acres, homes clustered on a few acres | 24 homes, 10 future homesites | part of land is a forest preserve | 60 acres of irrigated pasture land, rest a forest preserve | |||
| Cornerstone Cohousing | North Cambridge MA | planned | Mabel Liang mabel@twomeeps.com | 1.25 acres | 32 units | 4 buildings--1building with 10 apts and 5 attached townhouses; 2 bldgs with 2 townhouses each; 1 bldg with 13 apartments and CH | Initial zoning would have allowed over 40 units, got a density bonus as part of building affordable housing, didn’t incorporate increased density into already designed project | Subsurface transit easement runs underneath linear park (bike path) so were restricted from buildign any permanent structures over that portion; struggle to keep that configuratio and provide green space; www.cscoho.org | ||
| Pleasant Hill Cohousing | Pleasant Hill CA | under construction | Sheryl Faria sheryl.faria@eds.com | 2.2 acres | 32 units | 7 buildings -- 8 flats and 24 townhouses + CH | ||||
| Eno Commons | Durham NC | built | Robert Heinich rheinich@us.ibm.com | 11.2 acres, homes on 1/3 | 22 homes | 18 buildings + CH | Homes clustered in 1/3 of site; remainder is meadow, woods, garden | |||
| Pathways Cohousing | Northampton MA | built | Roger Berman | 40 acres, houses on 6-7 of the acres | 24 units | 6 stand alone; 18 in 9 side by side duplexes | Zoning in Northampton is one acre per dwelling. Had to get special permission to cluster houses, now are limited to the 24 | Much of the acreage (about 1/3) is in 3 separate wetlands | ||
| Cambridge Cohousing | Cambridge MA | Built | Rowena rowenahc@cs.com | 1.3 acres | 41 units | 17 flats in a 4 story buiding in center; 11 attached units at east end (6 apts in 3 story walk up and 5 townhomes); 13 attached units at west end (6 apts in 3 story walkup and 7 townhouses) | ||||
| New View Cohousing | Acton MA | Built | Jim Snyder-Grant jimsg at newview.org | 17 acres, homes on 6-7 acres | 24 units | 10 detatched; most others duplexes; one triplex | Built as many houses as possible under clustered zoning laws of town to bring per-house costs down, used density bonus permitting involving both subsidizing and hosting affordable housing. Some land left unbuilt due to clustered zoning law | |||
| Shadowlake Village | Blacksburg VA | Fred Mignone@usit.net | 33 acres site, buildings clustered on 5 acres | 33 units | 1-fourplex;9-duplexes;11 single family + CH =22 buildings | Zoning dictated at least 50% of site remained in open space | Went beyond zoning to preserve mature forest and create housing density that supports increased social interaction | |||
| Liberty Village Cohousing | Libertytown MD | partially built | Merlin Porter-Borden merlpb@att.net | 22 acres, homes clustered on 8 acres | 38 units | 17-duplexes; 4-single family | PUD now, originally (1991?) got a text ammendment to county zoning regs specifying cohousing as a use, with clustered housing and 65% green space. County plan commission hung up on density, required an R-3 zoning which would have meant approval of 81 homes, redirected to apply as PUD(which they were trying to avoid). | 3 acres of wetland being reforested as per county requirement, 5 acres of wetland will remain green space, remainder of land for gardening, orchards, outbuildings, overflow parking. | ||
| RoseWind Cohousing | Port Townsend WA | built | Lynn Nadeau welcome@olympus.net | 9.5 acres, half in commoms | 24 families | Half in single family homes | www.rosewind.org | |||
| River Rock Cohousing | Fort Collins CO | built | my memory | 3.6 acres | 34 units | 7 buildings, each with 3-6 attached units--townhouses, stacked,one-story | PUD as part of brownfill development including 10 s-f lots and a retail/commercial area. Just south of 55 acre city park and river corridor. | www.riverrock.org | ||
| Vilage Cohousing | Madison WI | built | site visit, conversation with Sue Lloyd | .67 acres, 1City block | 18 units | 1 sf home (existing); 1 2-flat (existing); 1-9 unit lbdg (new); 1-4 unit blkdg (new, incl. CH), I bldg w/ 2 townhouses total 18 Units | Revelopment of near west side city block | |||
| Culver Way Cohousing | St Louis MO | Planned | Carol Braford braford@aol.com | 1.5+ acres | 45 units | 4 old commercial buildings retrofit + 2 new buildings | Site zoned commercial which includes high density residential. In a redevelopment district. | web site under construction at culverwaycohousing.com | ||