About Nevada City Cohousing

Founding members of Nevada City Cohousing began the process of building our community in August, 2002. We partnered with the Cohousing Company and Wonderland Hill Developers using a streamlined cohousing development model and in December, 2004, our first members began moving into our beautiful site. Our community is built on an historical site, the world’s first hydraulic mining site of the 1860’s. We’ve taken an 11-acre piece of land that was formally a "brown field" and transformed it into a thriving, beautiful,"eco-friendly" home.

Our membership is a diverse group in age and occupation. We are single, married, young families, and retirees ranging in age from 16 months to 84 years old. We have no common political or religious orientation, only a common desire to live in a neighborhood of our own design and to know our neighbors. We are not a stagnant community. We are a work in progress. We find we do our best when we consult our collective wisdom and use consensus in our decision-making process.