New View Houses and Site Plan
Our twenty-four units are clustered in four smaller "neighborhoods" which cover five of the 20 acres here. About half of our units are single family and the other half are attached (duplex with one triplex). The architecture is simple, traditional New England, with wood siding. One unit in the triplex was the original farmhouse. The houses as designed range from 1200 sf to 2200 sf, and from two to four bedrooms, but due to customizations and attic or basement use, many are larger than the designed base plan.
The houses are arranged in clusters around a common house and common pedestrian space, meadows, and woods. The landscape is designed to encourage connections between neighbors, with cars parked on the periphery and mailboxes in the common house.
| To the right is a slightly old site plan. The site slopes up from the top of this page (North) to the bottom of the page (South). There's a prevailing wind up the hill - sometimes we call this 'North Wind Cohousing' especially when winter is setting in. The skinny double lines are sidewalks, the wider ones that connect to parking areas are roads. But most of the roads are off-limits to cars except for deliveries and emergencies. The main car road is not drawn - it's off to the right. Just under half the houses - those on the right-hand side - have parking at or very near their houses. The houses on the left half are in the car-free zone. PCH stands for 'Proposed Common House' - there's a real one there now, a bit smaller than drawn. More about our common house here. PV stands for "proposed vegetable garden" - that's real now too, also smaller than originally proposed. And we added a small basketball court just north of the common house. K stands for "kid's play equipment" - there's more of that now, in various places. (Thanks to Graham Meltzer for the site plan!) |
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