COCOTERO COMMONS

IDEATION
LIVING THE DREAM
 OUR MISSION

• To dream of and create an environment

where we can live:
• Authentically – in any relationship or
sexual orientation we wish without
judgment and without fear
• Sustainably – in a community that
survives, in environmental and
pragmatic sustainability
• Healthily – in an environment that
encourages physical, mental, sexual, and
emotional fitness; supportive of a
longer, more fun-filled life
SUPPORTING THE MISSION - AUTHENTICITY
• Being able to live authentically will require a purposeful strategy
in recruiting community members. People who are open to ethical
nonmonogamy or don’t feel like the standard narrative of hetero-
normativity is for them are our preferred “tribe”. Our community
members don’t have to be weird, but it helps if you like being
around non-traditional people and relationship styles. We will
actively seek out community members who encourage:
• Sex positivity – slut-shaming and “our way is the best way” is
discouraged
• Body positivity – all bodies are beautiful and nudity is not
shameful
• Personal autonomy – Each of us have different dreams. We’re
interested in people whose dreams overlap with ours, but are
unique to them. Strong, secure people don’t need to control
and own others in order to be happy.
SUPPORTING THE MISSION - SUSTAINABILITY
• Being able to live sustainably means the community will survive
through loss and hardship. We feel we should set up a community that
has an optimum number of members, an optimum size of property for
that number, and an optimized “business plan” for the community to
help sustain itself financially.
• Large enough to withstand the loss of key players
• Small enough to allow for intimacy between all players and give
each person a voice that matters.
• Community property that’s appealing to residents and visitors
alike, in a balance that’s comfortable for the community
• Sustainability is also about being good stewards of our environment.
Eco-friendly housing and sensible land use is critical
SUPPORTING THE MISSION - HEALTH
• Being able to live healthily means having the resources to be
physically fit and emotionally healthy. It means encouraging and
active recruitment of community members who work in the health
and fitness industries and want to live in an environment that
supports their work as well as supporting members in being active,
fit, and healthy for the long term
• Community-owned fitness center that includes a gym, yoga
studio/dance hall, private massage studios, indoor pool,
sauna, climbing walls, ropes/parkour course(s), a game room
and other long-term life-altering attractions
• A running trail that winds through the property
• Possibility of a community-sponsored health plan,
supplemented by mutual support among members and
member-owned health business(es)
(Following are possibilities… Realities depend on the community minds that come together to build the dream)

COMMUNITY PROPERTY

Fitness center – open Business center – Guest center – two to Community center – Garden shed – a Two-plus acres of CSA
to the public by open to members four comfortable community kitchen, community-owned (Community
appointment only. only who work from studio apartments dining/dance hall, garage/shop with a Supported
Community members home, with built for guests of the stage, watch tower, tractor mower / plow, Agriculture) garden
who work from home desks/work spaces members, as well as outdoor patio and chainsaw, tools, etc… and permaculture
as trainers, physical conducive to paying overnight firepit, etc… orchard – CSA is a
therapists, massage productivity, but with guests of the facility – money-making
therapists, life plenty of visual AirBnB possibilities opportunity, but
coaches, nutritionists, stimulus as desired – community members
yoga instructors, and a view of the get first right of
more can all have an mountains, the refusal of shares
input to the facility fitness center, the
they work in and live property, and fresh
with. air/open spaces are
possible
FITNESS CENTER
How would you like to own a
piece of a 3,000 square foot
fitness center? Oh, that’s not
huge, but it WILL include:
THIS is why we want to
encourage people in the
health care and fitness
industries to live, work, and
play with us

Weight room
Cardio equipment
Yoga Studio
Massage / therapy studio(s)
Infirmary / training room
Climbing wall(s)
Indoor 25 meter swimming
pool
 BUSINESS CENTER
A thousand square elevated feet
with a view of the foothills and the
fitness center designed for our work-
from home community members

• Conference room(s)
• WiFi
• Office equipment
• Open office floor plan with views
• Working patio with shade
GUEST CENTER

One AirBnB studio The studio apartments Guests have access to all
apartment could bring in will be community- community fitness
an average of $400 every owned and managed, and property on site (with
week. We could have two reservations can be made signed waivers of course),
to four of them, 500 at no charge by as well as weekend
square feet each community members community breakfasts

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COMMUNITY CENTER

One common aspect of Community

intentional communities is a kitchen
common house, or a Dining / dance
community center. Cocotero hall
Commons will sport a Recreation room
community center with: and lounge

Outside courtyard and firepit with

amphitheater and outdoor playspace for
live music and outdoor events
GARDEN SHED All this property is going to require
maintenance. Our garden shed is more
than a garden shed. It’ll be home to our
mower and plow, small agricultural
equipment and supplies, tools and
workbenches, and space for working on
vehicles (not storage)
This is a community buy-it-as-we go
building. We’ll assemble the shed (likely
1000 square feet) and buy equipment as
needed.
 Two acres of space will be set aside
for fruit and vegetables.
Management of the CSA will be
CSA either outsourced or owned by the
(COMMUNITY community.

SUPPORTED
AGRICULTURE) It’s said that two acres can
generate as much as $100,000 per
year in revenue. Shares will be
discounted for community
members.
COCOTERO COMMONS
(7.5 ACRE MOCK-UP)
• Gated Community
• Two tri-plex units, four duplexes, and two single
family units, ranging from $180K to $450K (2018
valuation) on small, low-maintenance lots
• Four Air BnBs for community revenue and
resident guests
• Guest parking areas outside, and underground
garages
• 200’ by 75’ courtyard, south of three-story
business center, community center, and watch
tower
• Community property owned by residents and
investors (if necessary) through share distribution
 WASHINGTON
VILLAGE
WASHINGTON VILLAGE IS AN UP-SCALE
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY IN BOULDER,
COLORADO
 COMMUNITY
Architecture will be and become whatever we
want it to be. Terraces, fruit trees, plenty of
lounge space, walking/running trails, stage and
gazebos for concerts…

Pictured: Courtyard at Silver Sage

community in Boulder, Colorado. This
is a community built specifically for
senior citizens and is attached to
Washington Village.
BOHN FARM

• Bohn Farm is an intentional

community being built in
Longmont, Colorado. Breaking
ground in 2019, this community is
intended to attract artists and
CSA-minded people.
• They want to be multi-
generational – at this point,
they’re mostly empty-nesters.
Cost may be an issue for most
younger families
 OTHER IDEAS
SHARED APARTMENT COMPLEX ON MINIMUM ACREAGE
 OTHER IDEAS
Trailer Park, anybody?
Trailers, pre-fab housing,
and used shipping
containers are all appealing
possibilities, depending on
how functional, charming,
or eco-friendly we want it
to be
OTHER IDEAS

Loveland Feed and Grain is

being stabilized and restored
by Artspace for use as studios.
Low cost apartments for
artists were built to the west.

Imagine if we’d seen it first…

 FOSTERING OUR MISSION

• Ultimately, we’re seeking to support our mission of

living authentically, sustainably, and in a state of
physical and emotional well-being by:
• Building a community that supports these things
with resources and the right environment
• Building a community of people who live and
breathe these fundamental values
• This is how we postpone assisted living indefinitely