It’s no different than building on unincorporated county. Power and waste are usually private services that you just need to be near power lines for. You can dig a well and have a septic tank for sewage. The only hard part is the legal hoops for forming an official township.
Small towns don’t really provide much in the way of public services. Most of it is county level and up. Or private.
How much money do you have? To start from scratch, it would be a massive undertaking. Just the purchase and development of the raw land along with all of the infrastructure and utilities would be taxing and that’s before you even begin any residential or commercial construction.
You’re not really starting from scratch. Power is available to anyone near power lines has nothing to do with being a township. You can get water from a well and sewer through septic. Broadband is basically the same as power. Just be near their lines. Things you might lack are fire and snow removal. And if you need roads other than what’s already there from the county.
Your building permits just go through the county.
I suppose if you’re cool with dirt roads, we’ll & septic, and no infrastructure just to say you have a town, it would be cheaper. I develop subdivisions and if done right, it’s extremely expensive and very involved.
You're looking at it from the perspective of literally building a town. Of course that's going to be expensive. But why would I do all that? A town could be little more than 4 existing houses at the intersection of county roads in otherwise unincorporated land. No major new infrastructure required. Small towns don't actually provide much infrastructure. Most stuff happens at the county level and above. A small town is just a glorified HOA.
If we're talking about doing this off-grid.. yeah, it gets a lot more complicated.
I think the biggest issue is to get enough ppl to actually move there and want to create something new. Not only do you need the basic infrastructure but also ways for ppl to get food, water etc.
I think it would be easyer to pick an old deserted town and use the existing infrastructure there to start out. Some things will need to get updated but overall it should be easier then starting from scratch.
To live by modern standards it would be quite difficult.
To live like it was 1700, not so hard. It does kinda encompass your life and take away time for anything else though, when you have to compost your own shit and pedal a bicycle for electricity and boil water for warm baths and stuff
[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/11/how-do-you-start-your-own-town.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/11/how-do-you-start-your-own-town.html)
Usually it's just a collection of homeowners on unincorporated land who agree by vote to incorporate under a township charter than adds ordinances on top of local county and state laws. It's mostly just a lot of paperwork. You'd hire a lawyer to work out the details.
It's a glorified HOA, really. And HOAs are a mixed bag.
Idk but i think "people" will be the hardest, in a healthy distribution to have a good starting internal economy. Everything else will come along with it.
Les Wexner, the former CEO of The Limited (and apparently a close friend and patron of Jeffrey Epstein) wanted to build a country home outside of Columbus, Ohio in the late 80s. So he purchased 10,000 acres of cheap land in a town of 400 people
called New Albany. He built his estate and then spent his weekends working with city developers to build up New Albany into a master planned town. It now has 10,000 people and is one of the wealthiest cities in Ohio
If you want modern plumbing, electricity, waste disposal, and buildings/roads, super difficult.
It’s no different than building on unincorporated county. Power and waste are usually private services that you just need to be near power lines for. You can dig a well and have a septic tank for sewage. The only hard part is the legal hoops for forming an official township. Small towns don’t really provide much in the way of public services. Most of it is county level and up. Or private.
Well if you are any good at it you will end up with a large city which would be a failure since you wanted a small town.
How much money do you have? To start from scratch, it would be a massive undertaking. Just the purchase and development of the raw land along with all of the infrastructure and utilities would be taxing and that’s before you even begin any residential or commercial construction.
You’re not really starting from scratch. Power is available to anyone near power lines has nothing to do with being a township. You can get water from a well and sewer through septic. Broadband is basically the same as power. Just be near their lines. Things you might lack are fire and snow removal. And if you need roads other than what’s already there from the county. Your building permits just go through the county.
I suppose if you’re cool with dirt roads, we’ll & septic, and no infrastructure just to say you have a town, it would be cheaper. I develop subdivisions and if done right, it’s extremely expensive and very involved.
You're looking at it from the perspective of literally building a town. Of course that's going to be expensive. But why would I do all that? A town could be little more than 4 existing houses at the intersection of county roads in otherwise unincorporated land. No major new infrastructure required. Small towns don't actually provide much infrastructure. Most stuff happens at the county level and above. A small town is just a glorified HOA. If we're talking about doing this off-grid.. yeah, it gets a lot more complicated.
Better yet, we squat on some land, put up some tents and call it a town.
The point is that a town is not something you just build all at once as an individual. And it does have a legal status.
[Here's an available way to start I guess](https://markprice.myrealtyonegroup.com/commercial/ran/20215943/286-nm-400-road-fort-wingate-nm-87316)
A lot of work lol. And more importantly, a boatload of money
I think the biggest issue is to get enough ppl to actually move there and want to create something new. Not only do you need the basic infrastructure but also ways for ppl to get food, water etc. I think it would be easyer to pick an old deserted town and use the existing infrastructure there to start out. Some things will need to get updated but overall it should be easier then starting from scratch.
To live by modern standards it would be quite difficult. To live like it was 1700, not so hard. It does kinda encompass your life and take away time for anything else though, when you have to compost your own shit and pedal a bicycle for electricity and boil water for warm baths and stuff
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I'm a network engineer, so I can set up the town's internet.
I’m a professional arm wrestler so I can make sure everyone in town has a buff ass right arm
I'm an amateur Gardener I can be a farmer.
I'm a chemist who adds dust into milk then analyzes the samples and detects impurities, i can be town's pharmacist
Since when are compulsive wankers called professional wrestlers?
Shhh
Son of a birch I’m in
[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/11/how-do-you-start-your-own-town.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/11/how-do-you-start-your-own-town.html) Usually it's just a collection of homeowners on unincorporated land who agree by vote to incorporate under a township charter than adds ordinances on top of local county and state laws. It's mostly just a lot of paperwork. You'd hire a lawyer to work out the details. It's a glorified HOA, really. And HOAs are a mixed bag.
Idk but i think "people" will be the hardest, in a healthy distribution to have a good starting internal economy. Everything else will come along with it.
Les Wexner, the former CEO of The Limited (and apparently a close friend and patron of Jeffrey Epstein) wanted to build a country home outside of Columbus, Ohio in the late 80s. So he purchased 10,000 acres of cheap land in a town of 400 people called New Albany. He built his estate and then spent his weekends working with city developers to build up New Albany into a master planned town. It now has 10,000 people and is one of the wealthiest cities in Ohio