Cohousing will be part of drive-in project

BOULDER – Veteran developer Jim Leach, 59, has spent his career focused on how to do housing and communities better because, he says, he recognized for a long time that the way Americans build residences was neither attractive nor conducive to community building.

That said, he adds, most suburban residences become tolerable because trees eventually cover up the ugly houses.

Cohousing is different.

Boulder-based Wonderland Hill Development Co., of which Leach is president, has been cited by The New York Times as the most experienced cohousing developer in the United States. Cohousing was a natural for Wonderland, which in 1969 developed one…