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By Peter Lazar
Special to the Rappahannock News
; Last year, Molly and our two bung children fled the lorthem Virginia traffic and >rawl to move to a cohousing geighborhood at the outskirts of
:ksburg, Virginia. We have irgeous views of rolling farmnd and mountains not nnlika (around my parents’ home in •Rappahannock, VA But in {cohousing fashion, the houses face pedestrian walkways father than streets. Also, we fehare a commonly-owned club house, vegetable gardens, parking and a children’s playground. The homes are clustered on four Ait of 33 acres and the rest of tie land is preserved as common forest and grassland.
Because of the “co” in the word, cohousing is often initially (mistaken for “commune” or •“cohabitation,” things which it is most definitely not. Rather, a Icbhousing neighborhood has more in common with small towns and villages, like •Washington, VA In both cases, •people live near one another in a Jwalkable community of relatively small houses surrounded by [preserved open land. Often, ip’ipromptu gatherings will igin from neighbors chatting om their front porch. The physical layout as well as the built-in expectation that neighbors participate in neighborhood matters, make cohousing community oriented, environmentally sustainable and affordable.
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