ABOUT
From the Touchstone community website:
Touchstone Cohousing is an intergenerational cohousing community located just west of the city limits of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cohousing architecture promotes interaction between individuals, breaking down the isolation typical of suburban developments while maintaining privacy. Individually owned homes cluster around common facilities with automobiles kept to the periphery.
Though we still have private lives, we’ve chosen to reside in this tightly knit neighborhood. We share three meals a week in the common house, which also provides laundry facilities and children’s play space.
We work together to maintain our landscaping. We govern ourselves by consensus and use dialogue to manage our conflicts.
Each household occupies a private residence with its own kitchen.
Together with two other adjoining cohousing communities, we occupy 35 acres of land, featuring two ponds, a small forest with trails and picnic areas, and views of a neighboring farmer’s field.