
Originally Posted by
Lloyd Gillespie
Zoning To Enhance Nature...
Imagine a natural community where:
No vinal/aluminum/faux siding allowed__No asphalt roofing__No faux anything...
All siding/roofing must be wood, of some design__Unless stone or brick...
All houses and businesses must be natural stick built, stone or brick__Houses and businesses required to have open porches, for natural socialization of community...
All business signs must be carved wood__and have hitching posts, and public seating on porches/boardwalks...
All energy sources must be natural...
Houses may be all types of wood siding__Clear or painted...
Houses should be of exquisite design__yet shall not be huge...
Community should be planned with housing centered around businesses, and farming and natural lands and lake areas, preserved in the outside parimeters...
Imagine a main central farm for all actively desiring participants...
Let half the 200 square miles be set aside for farming__food and trees...
Let this acreage support 100,000 people__Make it possible from scratch...
Lakes may be used for fish-farming__preferably vegetarian fish, as most renewable__Chinese perfected such systems thousands of years ago...
Let a campground exist on one of the lakes__yet must be all small natural wood cabins__No trailers anywhere__Too faux...
Use natural char fertilizers, and crop burnings, as native Indians perfected centuries ago, to enhance new growths__Also natural animal and fish fertilizers, and massive composting, etc...
Cars allowed in certain areas only__Horses and battery/electric golf carts allowed everywhere...
Imagine a solar, wind, geo-thermal, etc., green powered community, or any other new clean sources thought up...
Let the community be in the cold countries, so all aspects of necessity are covered...
Let all streets be of natural materials__No asphalt, only crushed stone, gravel or cobble stones/bricks, etc...
Dream up a set/increasing incentive money system, to allot all citizen's and businesse's resources__to supply the best ordered living conditions possible...
All's possible in this new natural community, as your new money system is a sovereign of the people, as a universal ownership of the money/distribution/trade system__Completely computerize if desired__Not mandatory...
Biggest hurdle will be figuring out how to inter-face the community's money and trading system with the greater out-side world__preventing inflation of the local money__This is the biggie__Yet solvable__Think__Think__and Think some more__It'll come to ya...
Continue this imagination, on and on__It's all within your natural creative universal imagination's capacity...