This site would be amazing...🤩

[alberto]

That’s a possibility, based on the story of Vosberg. Money quote:

@alberto

Two years after the purchase, the group still needs two permits from the commune: first, the decision to change the zoning of the building from habitat communaitaire (like a monastery) to habitat groupé. And second, the permis de bâtir. In the best case scenario, it will take another three years for the project to be finished (so five after buying the site).

Whole post:

What we learned at Vosberg

This week @Lee and I visited Vosberg, a cohousing project still in the making. In this post I want to make a note of what I think we learned. It is part of a series of topic threads grouped under the tag cohousing-knowledge, which include reports from the visit to several other cohousings (Brutopia, De Okelaar, Earthsong, L’Échappée) and from interviews to other projects we have not physically visited (like La Montagne). Vosberg is a cohousing project in Wezembeek-Oppem, outside of the 19 commu…