Newt Crossing

Living Sustainably in Community

Imagine living in a neighborhood that's welcoming, safe and eco-friendly.
Private homes with generous common facilites.
Where people know and care about each other in a real village setting.

Newt Crossing Community is a forming, intergenerational cohousing community. For more information contact us at newt@olympus.net.
We highly recommend reading: Creating Cohousing; Building Sustainable Communities by McCamant and Durrett

Past Meetings

Meeting Schedule

Kickoff Meeting:Sunday March 22, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Cohousing architect Charles Durett of McCamant & Durrett presents
Group Meeting: Saturday, April 11, 2-4 PM Pacific
Quimper Village member Janet Palmer speaks on the cohousing process
Group Meeting: Sunday, April 26, 3 - 4 PM Pacific
Stories of Group Process
Group Meeting: Sunday, May 17, 2 - 4 PM Pacific
Builder Malcolm Dorn speaks on design-build balance
Group Meeting: Sunday, May 31, 3 - 4 PM Pacific
Discussion on timeline and path forward
Group Meeting: Sunday June 14, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Visioning exercises from Creating a Life Together
Group Meeting: Sunday, June 28, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Continuation of visioning exercises
Group Meeting: Sunday, July 12, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Sociocracy for Newt Crossing
Walk the Land: Sunday July 19
Our first non-virtual event!
Group Meeting: Sunday, July 26, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Recap of Walk the Land
Group Meeting: Sunday, August 9, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Permaculture
Group Meeting: Sunday, August 23, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Recapping our conversations with Katie McCamant & Chuck Durret
Group Meeting: Sunday, September 6, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Discussion: Whether to obtain a preliminary budget from Katie McCamant
Group Meeting: Sunday, September 20, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
Discussion: Whether to obtain a preliminary budget from Katie McCamant
Group Meeting: Sunday, October 4, 3 - 5 PM Pacific
In-person Walk-the-Land and group meeting: Sunday, October 18, noon - 5 PM Pacific
Eva and Jonathan are back in Port Townsend! This will be a combination of a walk-the-land (noon - 3 PM), and a live socially-distanced group meeting - with our regular Zoom virtual meeting for those who can't attend live (at our regular meeting time: 3 - 5 PM)
Group Meeting: Sunday, November 1 at 4 - 6 PM Pacific
Group Meeting: Sunday, November 8 at 4 - 6 PM Pacific
A preliminary budget review
Group Meeting: Sunday, November 15 at 4 - 6 PM Pacific
More budget analysis and discussion

Group Meeting: Sunday, November 29 at 4 - 6 PM Pacific
Group Meeting: Sunday, December 13 at 4 - 6 PM Pacific

newt@olympus.net