Blue Columbine Cohousing

  • Community
  • 2 followers

About the Community

  • Forming
  • Suburban

What we do

A place where connection, belonging, and a vibrant lifestyle converge. Blue Columbine is located near the growing downtown of Wheat Ridge across the street from the 39 acre Prospect Park and the 24-mile-long Clear Creek Trail. Nestled between downtown Denver and the foothills of the magnificent Front Range, these 3.3 acres offer residents the best of both worlds.Enjoy a range of options and community luxuries from multiple home types to the common house and range of community amenities spread across the >3 acre site.

Enjoy a range of options and community luxuries from multiple home types to the common house and range of community amenities spread across the >3 acre site.

 

Our Vision

Goals:

• Build social capital —
communicate values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity
• Connect with wider neighborhood, e.g., provide meeting spaces
• Intergenerational – facilitate familes
• Welcome diverse backgrounds
• Sustainability – create our own power
• Elegant livable design
• Make life better/easier

Our Mission

Goals:

• Build social capital —
communicate values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity
• Connect with wider neighborhood, e.g., provide meeting spaces
• Intergenerational – facilitate familes
• Welcome diverse backgrounds
• Sustainability – create our own power
• Elegant livable design
• Make life better/easier

  • Community type
  • Cohousing

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  • 12 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
12

How to join

Contact the community by email or phone; contribute initial funding installments to finance our planning and permitting. Then finance sufficient funds for the construction loan, about $180 K this year.  At completion of units, finance/purchase the completed residence for costs  estimated to run  from $476 K to $1,240 K.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please contact Elaza Prowell, [email protected]. about visiting the building site. Our community also holds meetings and informational presentations across the street at the Prospect Park cookout sites.

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Join fee: $180000
Monthly fees/dues: $500
Labor: Encouraged or suggested (3 hours/week)
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Outdoor Kitchen, Large Scale Kitchen, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Gym or sports area, Internet, bicycle, gardening sheds

Frequency of communal meals

  • 1-3 times per month

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a single individual, couple, or Family Trust

Setting

  • Suburban

Residential areas outside city centers but within metropolitan regions.

Self-produced energy

  • Over 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    3.3 acres

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Location

  • Colorado, United States

Blue Columbine Cohousing

Promoted Needs and Offers

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  • Communities with Openings
6 months ago

Join us in the mountains of Western North Carolina

Coweeta Heritage Center/Talking Rock Farm is located in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Coweeta is located in a beautiful and diverse temperate rain forest. It feels very remote here yet we are just 12 miles from Franklin, NC. Winters can be mild. Coweeta is blessed with springs and a stream, pristine forests, and abundant wildlife. Power is provided by a hydro-electric system which is not connected to the grid. An organic garden and trout pond provide healthy food that is also shared with the local community. Hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor activities are just out the back door. Coweeta is looking for others who would like to join together to form an Intentional Community embracing the principles of Voluntary Simplicity. Simply put (no pun intended): We wish “to live simply so that others may simply live.” It is a recognition that nature provides us with valuable services and resources that we can use to enrich our lives. Utilizing local resources, appropriate technology, and working cooperatively, we can discover creative ways to meet our needs as “directly and simply as possible.”. An example of this, in the tradition of many Indigenous People”, is to gather, and use wildcrafted foods as part of our diet. There is great joy in going to nature’s grocery for our sustenance. Voluntary Simplicity is based on the recognition that “very little is needed to live well” and that “abundance is a state of mind.” Living lower on the economic ladder allows us more time and freedom to pursue other life goals: community and social engagement, family time, artistic or intellectual projects, more fulfilling employment, political participation, sustainable living, spiritual exploration, and more. According to the Voluntary Collective, “The grounding assumption of Voluntary Simplicity is that all human beings have the potential to live meaningful, free, happy and infinitely diverse lives while consuming no more than an equitable share of (the world’s) resources.” We affirm the need for a work/life balance, the right to a healthy environment and healthy food, and healthy community relationships supporting a diverse population. It is our responsibility as engineers of a new generation to make the changes that we want to see happen and pass this on to the next generations. We can’t wait for someone else to do this important work. Voluntary Simplicity is a quiet revolution that can change the world. As one person said, “we must be poets of our own lives and of a new generation.” We hope you will join us here at Coweeta or elsewhere on our journey to a healthier and more sustainable future! Temporary housing is available in a 27 foot trailer trailer with attached deck next to a creek while we build additional housing. Your basic living expenses (shelter, basic food items, power and water) are met through our market garden or other fundraising projects that you will participate in. You are expected to contribute a given amount of your time and energy to help grow our community and meet our financial obligations. Possible future plans include establishing a retreat center for healing our earth and each other. Work includes organic gardening, construction projects and other community building activities. Come join Coweeta and learn how to live lightly on the land and enjoy the Earth’s bounty! For more information, visit www.coweetaheritagecenter.com Contact [email protected] for a visit or more info.  Paul
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