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Where residents live in the privacy of their own homes but gather in the community's common house to share meals and socialize several nights a week. Where all decisions are made by consensus. Where children roam freely under the watchful eye of many adults. More than fifty such communities exist in North America and dozens more are in the planning stage. Jill Eisen explores the small but growing movement called Cohousing. </div> <bR> <div> WindSong, Langley, BC.<B> </B></div> <div> Its 34 apartments and townhouses are tightly clustered along two pedestrian streets. Each of them is completely covered in glass. The idea is to promote more sociability in this wet, West-Coast climate. Alcoves with comfortable seating are scattered here and there, and some residents have put tables and chairs outside their doors where they can sit and watch the world go by. It's a great place for WindSong's many children. Groups of them run up and down the covered streets, and ride their skateboards and tricycles here. The common house kitchen and dining room are the social heart of WindSong. Anyone who feels like it has the option of eating here two or three times a week. Sometimes the communal meals are pot-luck and other times they're prepared by a team of volunteer cooks. WindSongers, it seems, like to have a good time. WindSong sits on a six-acre site, and with the buildings so tightly clustered, there are almost four acres of green space left open, complete with a creek. Some people have their own small gardens behind their units, and there are larger plots for anyone who wants to plant a vegetable garden. </div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=18 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>