3053 N Gaia:
Multiple upgrades and unique features make this approximately 1900 square-foot home with detached Casita guesthouse a perfect family home within the very special cohousing community of Milagro. The main house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Casita provides a fourth bedroom and bathroom. Designed with an open floor plan, the home's Kitchen flows easily into the Living Room. A screened-in Front Porch and backyard Covered Patios expand outdoor living options. The Kitchen and Bathrooms all have custom hardwood cabinetry with deep full-extension drawers. The Bathrooms all have ADA-height toilets.
Like all houses at Milagro, this is a two-story adobe townhome built with sustainable and solar efficient design: 9-foot high or vaulted ceilings, active solar hot water system and many passive solar features. This home has the advantage of large side setbacks of adjacent houses, minimizing common walls and shading it from the afternoon sun while allowing for more interior lighting through added East and West-facing windows. Minimized common walls plus added sound insulation throughout provide for a particularly quiet home. Also, unique to this home is a private, two-car garage at the parking area assigned for its exclusive use.
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Additional Features of this home:
- Back yard patio areas feature artisan wrought-iron gates, fencing, arbors and lead to the Casita guesthouse.
- A Vacuflo central vacuum system, housed in an added storage closet, serves both the main house and Casita. Together with added commercial two-inch furnace filters, it provides for a healthy, low dust and low allergen home.
- Ground flooring, porch and patio material is integral colored, scored concrete that is polished and grouted in interior living spaces.
- Upstairs flooring is made of finished tongue and groove solid pine.
- Track and recessed lighting fixtures in the Kitchen, Living Room and Larger Downstairs Bedroom.
- Upgraded plumbing fixtures, door hardware and lighting fixtures throughout.
- Upgraded, solid-core panel and pocket doors throughout.
- Custom, thermal-lined window treatments throughout.
- Added glass block and awning windows combined with 100% East and 65% West side set backs from the adjacent homes, allow for more interior daylight brightness and ventilation.
- Extra-insulation and soundproofing added to walls, ceilings and staircase.
- Ceiling fans throughout add efficiency to cooling and heating.
- Main house and Casita have energy-efficient, split unit central HVAC units.
- Double-hung dual pane windows throughout.
- Interior fire sprinkler system with alarm for added safety.
Solar/energy-saving features:
- Added furred-out, insulated plaster-over adobe interior walls increase thermal efficiency.
- Additional fenced rear yard for installation of pole or ground mounted photovoltaic arrays (non-deeded property).
- Active solar hot water system.
- See Milagro Cohousing website for more features common to all homes.
Jointly Owned Community Amenities and Features:
- Parking facilities are on the periphery of the community, allowing for safe separation of cars and traffic from community living and play spaces.
- Other common community amenities
Asking $350,000.00.
Shown by appointment only.
Contact:
Chris Petro or Cindi Noshay: 520-743-7093
RENTALS
3041 N Gaia: For Lease.
Beautiful, airy 2700 sq ft home situated on three levels: 3 bedrooms/2 baths, den, family room and open loft come together to create a home that is cozy warm and spacious at the same time. Many features including built in vacuum, water filter, wood blinds, ceiling fans in every room, cable access, heat pump and all appliances. Two patios and a balcony overlook a 35 acre nature preserve laced with trails and stunning views of the Catalinas and Tucsons.
Green design includes 16" thick adobe walls, solar heated hot water, solar oven, water cachement, greywater system and lush native landscaping with vegetable/herb garden and ten kinds of fruit trees. Home is close to town, yet has a sense of the wild. Exceptionally low utility bills. Community includes a common house, swimming pool, playgrounds, gardens and workshop. For all the great features, the people and community are the strongest assets of Milagro. Children thrive here - and so do adults.
The home is available in January. For photos and more detailed information contact Sharon at (509) 783-6558 or (509) 943-8688, or email partners@televar.com
MILAGRO AMENITIES
Milagro Cohousing is one of the several intentional communities in Tucson, Arizona. We have used green building concepts in the design of our homes, parking lot, driveway, landscaping and more.
Here are just a few examples of our green building and ecological design methods.
Our homes are made of 16Â thick local adobe blocks with concrete floors and extra large south-facing windows.
The slant and size of the south-facing window overhangs allow the winter sun to warm the adobe and enter our oversized windows to warm the concrete floors, while shading our homes in the hot summer months.
Passive solar water heaters on our roofs take advantage of TucsonÂs exceptionally sunny, superb weather. Passive solar water heaters also heat our community pool in fall and spring.
Our roofs are metal with gutters and down-spouts channeling rainwater into planted basins. This way all the rains that falls on our homes, stays right here. This is the most simple and easily sustainable method of passive rain water harvesting. Many of our residents have also installed water harvesting cisterns to save rainwater for dryer months.
Instead of being hooked up to the city sewer system, Milagro has constructed itÂs own black water and grey water recycling system. After passing through a septic tank, our used water goes into a wetlands system, in which we hand-planted native bulrushes. The microbes on the roots and surrounding gravel clean up and transform the waste water.
Our transformed black and grey water is then pumped, in an underground drip system, enabling us to have lush ecological landscaping. We truly have an oasis in the desert. In addition to many vegetable gardens, we are growing at least 10 kinds of fruit trees: 3 kinds of figs, plums, peaches, almonds, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, jujubes and pomegranates.
Compositing and EM Â Many Milagro residents compost their kitchen waste using traditional composting or composting all waste (even animal products) using the EM Â Effective Microorganisms process, using Bokashi. Three households offer composting for the community.
We are investigating ways to become a more sustainable community by raising chickens, starting in private backyards, as we have to protect our chicks from our desert friends and neighbors - coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, owls and hawks.
Al Nichols made a large Solar oven especially for Milagro. He donated it as a memorial to Wayne Moody, our very special and much missed Project Manager. Several households can cook in the solar oven at the same time. It tracks with the sun from energy from a pv panel. WeÂve cooked home-grown squash, beans, lasagna, soups, stews and casseroles in our community solar oven.
Once a week we are invited to share in a community Common Meal. Everyone takes a turn as head or assistant cook to dream up a Saturday night meal (our turn comes up around once every 3 months). We offer omnivorous and vegan options at $6 for adults and $3 for children for our mostly organic meals. Email to join us some Saturday night!
We usually celebrate the Solstice and Equinox days with a ritual that one of our residents dreams up. Fun for kids and adults, this often includes walking our labyrinth, singing, dressing for the occasion, drumming and sometimes tossing what we no longer want into a ceremonial fire.
Our weather: Tucson is renowned for its superb weather. Warm and sunny throughout most of the year, the air is remarkably dry, with a low relative humidity. It lies in the zone receiving more sunshine than any other section in the United States.
Tucson is located in the Sonoran Desert region of Southern Arizona; 110 miles south of Phoenix and 60 miles from the Mexican border. It is situated in a valley, surrounded by mountains that rise to heights of over 9,000 feet. The beautiful, lush Sonoran Desert vegetation is everywhere reaching into the city.
Tucson is well known for its fantastic year-round weather. The average high temperature is 81 degrees and the average low temperature is 54 degrees. With an average of 12 inches of rainfall and 86 percent sunshine. Tucson receives more than 50% of its annual rainfall during the months of July, August, and September.
If you are looking at the Tucson homes for sale, youÂll quickly find that we, at Milagro Cohousing, are unique. Our green eco homes include ecological design, ecological landscaping, rain water harvesting, grey water harvesting, and eco friendly living.
