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Well as an NC native (living out of state) and someone who has lived at a couple startup ICs, I love the idea and sentiment. I’d recommend checking out this book: “Creating a Life Together” (https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Life-Together-Ecovillages-Intentional/dp/0865714711/ref=nodl_ ) It has a lot of good practical information. Having a solid legal, accounting, and decision making structure is pretty important. I’ve been at places where gardens and ideals come first and the practicalities second, and the practicalities catch up and overwhelm in the end.

I believe to be successful creating community one needs to have financial stability, which typically means you need income from outside the community. The idea of land-based artisanal business is very appealing, but it’s very hard to startup a business and it’s very difficult to startup a community: doing both at the same time is a multiple of the two. Especially if you want to have an aspect of independence for each member, if people are relying on a land-based business in which members are a part to make money it’s going to lead to a lot of entanglement.

I agree that power generation should not be a priority. It is possible to find land in NC not far from an increasing number of solar-farms or to buy green credits.

Also it’s worth visiting some of the communities that already in exist in NC.

I’m sure I have more thoughts but that’s all I feel like typing at the moment. I wish you the best in your endeavor. What part of NC are you looking at? Do you live there presently?

Difficult communication can often be solved using Non-Violent Communication. Great book and this website has plenty of resources to help get going.

Well I think that Lemmy is probably one of your best options! It gives you the ability to host your on instance on your own server. This means that the host has the ability to guide the culture of the forum.

From a quick search I did find some others though.

• Discourse
• phpBB

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The way zoning laws work is they specific exactly what you can and can't do on a piece of property. I will give you some examples of the most common:

• Single family house: Most zoning laws specify that you can only have one dwelling on a property.
• Related adults: it is really common that zoning laws prohibit unrelated adults living together on a single property.
• Housing density: It is common to specify how many houses you can have per acre. I have seen things like only one house is permitted per 60 acres.

You get the picture.

For you example of trying to build an apartment complex...yes you can go that way. But you can't just build an apartment complex. The city will want to review the detailed plans. You will need approve for each and every sewer riser you build. The city or county might not want an apartment complex on a farm and prohibit you form doing that. If you do get the property rezoned as multifamily density housing, it will probably prohibit you from doing farm work. Etc. etc. etc.

May I suggest you read: Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities