About Us

Flagstaff Cohousing is working to create Flagstaff’s first intentional cohousing community. We are forming an urban, green cohousing community that addresses the needs of singles, working parents, children and seniors.

PLEASE NOTE that, as we are a forming community, almost all details (except a commitment to live in peaceable and supportive community with each other, our neighbors, and the earth) are subject to change as residents design their own community.

Our goal is to bring 30 households together in a multigenerational community to grow together, care for one another, and engage actively in the Flagstaff community and the world. We intend to live lighter on the land by building a compact group of smaller homes or condominiums using ecologically sustainable principles and materials. We are financially sound, and we have hired national consultant, Katie McCamant of Cohousing Solutions, to help us to bring our vision to reality.  We’re also working with Karen Gimnig, a relationship trainer and process consultant, to develop a sound basis for communication and consensus.  In early 2020, we selected Bryan Bowen, AIA, to help us find property and design our community.

Our Members

We have a core group of several committed individuals who are deeply engaged in the Flagstaff community. Our members have a wide range of professional experience and currently volunteer in areas of social consciousness and peace, science, music and the arts, sustainable gardening and biological diversity, mental health, literacy, business and community development. We are committed to addressing inequality and intolerance, and we work to include families and individuals from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds.

 We intend that our cohousing community will contribute to Flagstaff in many positive and active ways, and we have the resources, talents and commitment to do so. Our creative group plans to realize an inclusive and proactive style of shared community that is visionary for Flagstaff.

Featured
Maury & Karen
Maury & Karen

We moved to Flagstaff from Los Angeles in 1988 with our daughter Katie. We’ve found a community where relationships enrich every aspect of life, professional, personal and civic, and where one person can make a difference.

Karen – In working to create a cohousing community here in Flagstaff, I’ve met people who want to bring their gifts to a more closely connected life. I’ve always focused on connection and communication – in my personal life and my varied work experience as a marriage and family counselor, Montessori preschool teacher, computer systems analyst, and fundraiser for our local NPR station. The issues I’m most committed to are early childhood literacy and domestic violence prevention. As a member of the Flagstaff Threshold Choir, I find joy in singing for and with people at the thresholds of life – even via Zoom. I love to travel, read, dye silk, do water aerobics, connect with family and friends, and cook.

Maury -- 71 -- Married 35 years with an adult daughter.

Work: Real estate investor/escaped attorney with a focus on adaptive reuse of commercial buildings and interest in historic preservation.

Hobbies: Reading sci fi and history. Started jogging when I turned 60.

Goals: Still working full time but working on a new balance of work and fun!

I look forward to the end of COVID and dream of traveling.

Sue
Sue

Sue has loved living in Flagstaff for the last 40 years and has certainly seen it grow during this time. Sue raised her family here, and her adult children have now returned to live in Flagstaff with their own careers, because it is such a great place to live. After working as a health care administrator for many years, Sue began her business as the owner of Journeys Around the World travel 16 years ago because of her lifelong passion for travel. What she loves most about her work is creating magical travel experiences for each client, and seeing their travel dreams come true. Besides travel, Sue loves nature, hiking, and all that Flagstaff has to offer. Sue has joined the Membership and Property teams and, since her official business title is Director of Fun, she brings a lot of enthusiasm for connection and good times!