​Welcome to our Cohousing Community

 We are a diverse group of people enjoying our urban cohousing community in Santa Rosa, California since July 2005.  Yulupians range in age from infants to 80 years living in 29 homes ranging from studio to 4 bedroom.  We share a Common House (with kitchen, multi-purpose room, library, kids play room, and laundry room), a workshop, guest and exercise rooms, kids play structure, and a vegetable garden with fruit trees.  Discover Community Life at Yulupa Cohousing. ​Here's a mini tour of community:

Yulupa Cohousing Features:
Innovative & sustainable  architecture
The unique architecture is bold, fun and colorful.  Most home entrances face a large courtyard to encourage interaction with neighbors and to provide a play area for children.

Units feature:
• Full kitchens
• 1-2 bathrooms
• Washer-dryer hook-ups in some units
• Open, spacious design and skylights create beautiful ambient light.
• Radiant floor heating; concrete floors downstairs for energy efficient cooling

​The Common House 

A large Common House provides an ample, well-stocked community kitchen and dining room-multipurpose room for community meals, meetings and events.  The Common House also has a laundry room, kids’ play room, and a library-living room for small gatherings and movie nights.        

Features of the Common Areas

Workshop
  • Our workshop is available to members for woodworking, bicycle and other repairs, and as an arts and crafts space.
Guest Room
  • Yulupa has a large furnished Guest Room to house friends and family from out of town for short visits with community members.
Exercise Room
  • The Exercise Room has treadmills, elliptical, and rowing machine, recumbent bike, punching bag along with weight equipment and mats.
Garden Shed and Bike Storage
  • The Garden shed offers shared tools for all to work their garden beds.
  • There are locked storage rooms for bikes for the daily commute or a Sunday afternoon ride.  Annadel Park, located one mile from Yulupa Cohousing,  provides great trails for mountain-bike riding.
The Common House and some units meet ADA building guidelines for people with disabilities
Solar electricity for common areas     
  • Solar panels atop our north building generate electricity for all of the common areas: Common House, guest and exercise rooms, workshop, laundry room and outdoor lighting. 
  • During much of the year, use of the outdoor clothesline helps save energy. 
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Rooftop solar panels