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Don’t you wish that you could walk to your dance or yoga session barefooted? Do you wish that you could practice playing the tuba in a place without disturbing the neighbors? Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone to bring you dinner when you are sick in the bed? Wouldn’t you like to be able to build a book shelf without having to purchase expensive tools? Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone to watch the baby for you when you’re trying to clean your house, clean your car or wash the dog? If so then you might want to consider moving into a cohousing Canada community.

Pacific Gardens is a cohousing Canada community located in Nanaimo Vancouver Island BC Canada. The Pacific Gardens cohousing community is creating a safe and friendly environmentally community that is helping neighbors become friends and friends become neighbors. Pacific Gardens Cohousing Canada Community is the first cohousing community in Nanaimo. The community is actually the first in the cohousing project in Nanaimo. The community will be set on over four acres of land at 347 7th Street in Nanaimo. There is an extensive green space on the four acres which is home to natural flora and fauna as well as heritage apple trees and a seasonal pond.

The Nanaimo property adjoins a park along the salmon filled Chase River that provides many wonderfully amazing views of Mount Benson. The cohousing Canada community will include a total of twenty five strata title units. The community offers residents free a simple strata title ownership home which means that the household owns the home that they live in with a share of the common facilities. The Pacific Garden Cohousing Community offers one, two and three bedroom units as well as three bedroom units plus den units that allows Pacific Garden to accommodate families as well as seniors and singles of all ages.

In the center of this particular cohousing Canada community in Nanaimo there is a common house along with an atrium and pedestrian walkway that leads to all of the units. This particular space within the community is useable by all residents. The common facilities will include a large kitchen across from the dining and activity hall in which residents can often attend community meals. The cohousing Canada community will also including teen and children’s playrooms, a woodworking shop as well as craft rooms. There will also be guest rooms available for visitors. The community will place a strong emphasis on organic gardening.

How are decisions made within the cohousing community? The owners will meet on a regular basis in order to make consensus based decisions that will help the community move forward in terms of construction and the overall design of the project. This particular strategy will help put everyone on equal footing and is essential for building and sustaining a community. The strategy has been used and has evolved over thirty years. The particular strategy has been used to help create over one hundred successful communities.