Welcome to Wasatch Commons Cohousing

The commonhouse.

L Angelastro

Aerial photo.

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Our Neighborhood: Wasatch Commons

The units are clustered on either side of a snaking walkway that we call the central path. Parking is on the perimeter, one lot at either end of the walkway.

Extensive shared facilities complement private homes.

The Common House

• kitchen
  • pass-thru to dining room
  • commercial range with hood
  • wall ovens
  • commercial dishwasher, 90-second cycle
  • prep and dish sinks
  • pantry
• dining room
  • folding tables and stacking chairs allow flexible use of room
  • seating for forty
  • clear space for dances, etc.
• sitting room
  • gas fireplace
• laundry
  • 2 commercial frontloading washers
  • 2 gas dryers
  • clotheslines just outside
• kids room and teen room
• mailroom
• half bath
• guest rooms
  • upstairs guest room with en-suite 1-3/4 bath
  • ground-floor guest room next to handicap-accessible 1-3/4 bath (grab bars and roll-in shower)
• crafts room, with sewing machines
• future messy-crafts room, with sink and roll-up door for equipment
• side and back patios

Community workshop

K Argyle

Beds in the community garden.

A Dwyer

The Workshop

• woodworking area
• car repair bay
• exercise room

Apple pressing: The community shares about forty fruit trees.

K Argyle

4-1/2 acres of grounds

• assigned carports
• open 2nd-vehicle and guest parking
• garden with raised beds
• orchard
• play areas
• fort and swings
• climbing dome
• small lawn
• playing field (unirrigated)
• small sledding hill
• green space with native or nonnative-but-endemic vegetation, providing habitat for some small wildlife
• under a year-round flyway for 'commuter' fowl between feeding & nesting areas

(link to c.h. floor plan, site plan)

Accessibility

• First floors of common house and workshop have ground-level entries
• Common house doors have lever handles

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