Murph also writes about his semester project report, called “People’s Place.”

General idea: ground level People’s Food Co-op, below-grade dedicated food co-op parking, second floor public parking, 3rd-5th floors have 40 co-housing units (25% permanently affordable through a land trust), usable green / garden roof. Note no parking included for the residential - they can buy permits from the DDA or do without cars. They do live an elevator ride away from a full-scale grocery store . . .

It needs a real architect. And an engineer. And probably some significant revisions after those two get through with it. But, for now, it’s a good proof of concept.

I really like this “urban cohousing” idea. More common shared space (kitchen, workshop, green rooftop garden, etc.) makes smaller (and thus more affordable) units more livable. Much better than the marginally-better-than-typical-sprawl condos like the Scio Twp. cohousing communities.

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