🗺️ Land & Lots

Tool ready

⚙ Runs on the GeoSeal engine — GPS-signed PostGIS polygons + slope/aspect.

How 2,560 acres becomes 500 surveyed 3-acre cells and a vast permanent commons — cut by buildable envelope, not by ruler.

3-acre cells, sited on what's usable

We divide the parcel into 500 cells of ~3 acres — one per founding share — and everything else stays commons. That's about 1,500 acres in private cell allocations and well over 1,000 acres held in common. But a 3-acre square drawn on a map can hand one person a flat bench and the next person a cliff. So we don't draw squares: each cell is cut around a usable building envelope — slope, aspect, and access — using GeoSeal, which signs every parcel boundary with GPS and records its aspect. A share means 3 acres you can actually build on.

The commons can't be parcelled out

After 500 cells, roughly 1,000+ acres remain as commons — and that's structural, not leftover. It splits in two: the already-logged ground becomes the built commons (lodge, forge, greenhouse, workshops, reforestation projects), and the standing timber becomes the forest reserve — conservation, trails, and a timber reserve held for the whole membership. Neither can be carved into private lots; that's written into how the trust holds the land. The forest reserve goes further still: a conservation covenant co-held by an outside land trust locks the wild acres wild forever — protected even against a future membership, and unlocking conservation tax benefits and grants (this land already holds High Conservation Value, bordering the Darkwoods conservancy).

What you'll be able to do here

As this comes online: claim a cell, see its real boundary and aspect on the map, and plan your home siting on the buildable ground — before a single tree is cut.

Connected systems

• 💧 Water — The binding constraint — and the first thing we design. One creek decides how many of us the land can hold.
• 🏛️ Governance — One member, one vote — with consent-based rules for anything that touches the commons, so a bare majority can't carve up the reserve.

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