Cohousing: Residents must ‘see value in it’

Residents moved into the first American cohousing village in 1991, and now there are almost 40 cohousing communities in the United States, including two in Boulder County.

Locally, Jim Leach’s Wonderland Development Co. is credited with the developments Nyland Cohousing in Lafayette and Nomad Cohousing in Boulder as well as such villages in Littleton, Fort Collins and Golden. Still others that are planned or in the development stages in Colorado and out-of-state.

Wonderland also has an option on farmland in Weld County that is likely to be annexed into the town for a cohousing community consisting of a “cluster village” with custom…