Share examples of business plans and P&L templates for planning the community’s different revenue streams.

My plan for income on my property will be hosting events like weddings or festivals, workshops, selling our surplus wares and services to the surrounding community and at farmers markets. I have also been interested in continuing to build mobile tiny living situations for nomadic peoples. From rvs to trailers to e-trikes with sleeper cabins…

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Hey thanks for the article! A lot of these are really good ideas. I’ve always wanted to have my own second chance shoppe haha

Community Revenue

How will the community sustain itself? Creatively funding your community and making it financially viable long-term is essential to support your community into the future. For this, you will explore your possible revenue streams, realistic business models, and expense models based on real-life case examples.

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That’s great! I like the idea of driving golf carts everywhere. They are typically noiseless and fun. In other communities I’ve seen them use ATVs, because the terrain was more challenging, but they were so noisy. I personally think that this kind of noise disturbs wildlife.

Agree that the best communities are pretty much 90% car free and…

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The real estate projects that I visited (at least the 5-star ones) require visitors & residents to park at the designated areas near the front gate/security post. They then transport the humans & cargo within the “eco-resort/modern village” compound using Golf Buggies. For traffic-control & ‘cleaner…

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Transportation Networks

This step involves envisioning a sustainable transportation network within and outside the community. Emphasis is placed on designing for universal accessibility, catering to the needs of elderly and physically challenged residents. Additionally, creative solutions like ziplines and gondolas are explored, enhancing…

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An often overlooked but key part of community design is deciding where on the spectrum your community sits between public to private, shared to personal, and collective to individual.

Ownership

Make decisions about how much is privately versus communally owned or paid for:

• Expenses

• Food

• Utilities (water,…

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Guest and Public Areas/Amenities

• Identify which spaces/services are open/free to all, regardless of membership status.

• Identify which spaces/services are available for guests to use, based on their stay at the community

Community Areas/Amenities

• Identify which spaces/services are only open to community members

• Which spaces are available to all…

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Attractions that make your community a destination

What are the main attractions of the community? Geographical wonders, special services/products, curated experiences, educational opportunities, etc.?

Plan Your Amenities

Write a list of amenities that will be available. Specify which amenities will be available only to community residents, and which will also be available to visitors and the public.

• Example – Swimming pools

• Example – Yoga/dance studios

• Example – Outdoor showers

• Example – Outside sitting areas

Plan your Businesses

What are the community-owned, or individually-owned businesses that will require a physical building and what type of building will that be? Will there be space for privately owned businesses to operate? Will you include coworking spaces?

• Example – Organic Orchard

• Example – Apothecary and Natural Cosmetics

• Example -…

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Plan Your Shared Facilities

What are the shared facilities your community has or would like to build? What are the places for play and rest?

• Example – Kitchen & Dining Hall or Restaurant

• Example – Meeting Rooms and Coworking Spaces

• Example – Art Studio, Woodshop, Makerspace

• Example – Movement Shala

• Example – Community Garden

Residential Buildings

Write a list of the types of residential buildings your community has or would like to build. Specify the building method as well (i.e. earthship, cob, superadobe, geodesic dome, reclaimed materials, etc.)

• Example – Cohousing Apartments

• Example – Visitor Lodgings / Hotel

• Example- Intriguing Alternative…

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Which building methods will you use in your community? Here is a list of common ecological building methods. Make sure they are climate-appropriate for where your community is located.

Hempcrete

Aircrete

Earthships

Adobe/Superadobe

Green roofs

Rammed earth brick

Wattle and daub

Straw bale construction

What will the daily community activities look like?

Education

How does the community pursue its daily education? What does that look like for people of all ages?

Business Activities

What are the daily business activities that the community participates in?

Event Types

What types of events are open to the public? What kinds of events does the…

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Ownership

Make decisions about how much is privately versus communally owned or paid for:

• Expenses

• Food

• Utilities (water, gas)

• Maintenance

• Infrastructure investment

Space

• Communal areas

• Private areas

• Who is entitled to private ownership?

Assets

• Tools

• Vehicles

• Natural geographic features

• Natural resources

Location

– What climate do you want to live in?

– What locations are you considering for you regenerative neighborhood?

Size
– how big will the community be?

– how much land will you seek?

Check out these design lenses to consider when designing a regenerative neighborhood.

Design Lenses

Regenerative Development Principles & Frameworks

Regenerative Futures – Eight Principles for Thinking and Practice

Regenesis Group’s “Regenerative Development and Design” book

Regen Tribe’s Regenerative Development Standards

OASA’s …

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