![]() ![]() Organized task groups create focused bursts of work and more leisure time for everyone since many hands make light work.Shared utilities like sustainable geothermal heating and cooling drops everyone’s monthly bills and keeps the planet green.A community garden provides fresh, healthy food and lowers grocery costs. ![]() Festive neighbourhood barbeques in the summer and winter nights by the fire in the common building are part of daily life.Granddad can rock on his own porch reading the morning news while neighbours walk past and stop for quick conversations over the low fence about his hip replacement progress and the latest political headlines.Organized group meals means she only needs to cook dinner once a week and spends less time on grocery shopping and errands, and more time with her family and hobbies (imagine! Time for a hobby!).She can jaunt across the grass for an extra cup of sugar or pop out to the store-leaving the kids under the watchful eye of her neighbor, while they play on the common green without worry of cars speeding past. The working mother of two can dine nightly with everyone in the common building, or choose the privacy of her own kitchen.In a Balandra pocket neighbourhood residents have the security of knowing they are part of a greater ‘family.’ Residents can live a simpler life because of group participation and shared resources.The design of the cottage-sized homes and their orientation on the land facilitates a sense of community, safety and connectedness while maintaining a balance in privacy & quietude.A pocket neighbourhood is a group of about 10 cottage-sized homes clustered around a common green & common building with cars kept at the edge of the property. ![]() Here are some answers to help you understand the Balandra vision of a Pocket Neighbourhood in Canada. One of our next key projects at Balandra is to build a Pocket Neighbourhood,īut we certainly receive wide-eyed looks of curiousity and lots of questions. We receive fewer and fewer blank stares when we tell people ![]()
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