One Community Residency Phases/Timeline

This page is the 5+ year projection page for residency and traffic at One Community. There are 8 phases to this process.

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Our model is to operate through volunteers and their families living on the property and helping us build and, starting with completion of Phase I, to maintain approximately 30% of residency as transient traffic* comprised of students, eco-tourists, and others interested in complete sustainability.

*”Transient” defined by the county as staying less than 3 months

For purposes of revenue to One Community and the county, our goal is to keep “transient” rooms as full as possible with people staying anywhere from a night to a couple weeks. “Total Projected Traffic” is calculated as if we are operating at 100% capacity.

Phase I (Year 1)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: 50-100 adults, plus children

• 50 full-time volunteers (and about 10 children) move onto the property as soon as we own it to work full-time and build the Earthbag Village with 72 earthbag residences, the Duplicable City Center, and our food infrastructure
• Estimated transient traffic won’t start until at least 6 months after we move onto the property and will then include up to 50 visiting volunteer helpers, students, teachers, and/or consultants

Phase I (Year 2-3)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: 100-200 adults, plus children

• Year 2-3 should include completion of Phase 1 construction of the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This will provide infrastructure for 30-50 additional full-time resident Pioneers and 10-20 more children.
• Residents will now number approximately 100 plus 20-30 children.
• Completion of Phase I will also provide 12 Duplicable City Center rental rooms and 12 Earthbag Village rental rooms. Ten percent of the total planned camping sites (25-30) will become available at this time also.
• Transient traffic will now be a maximum of around 100 people a day.

Phase II (Year 3-4)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: Approximately 400 adults, plus children

• Year 3-4 should include completion of the aquaponics and walipini food infrastructure and the Straw Bale Village with 52 straw bale residences.
• Significantly less volunteer transient traffic will be needed at this point and revenue generating transient traffic will replace most volunteer transient traffic.
• Residents will now number approximately 150-200 plus 40-50 children.
• Rental spaces will number 36 plus 70-80 (30% of projected max) camp sites.
• Transient traffic will now be a maximum of around 230 people a day.

Phase III (year 4-5)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: 700+ adults, plus children

• Year 4-5 should include completion of the Cob Village with 28 more residences and the remaining campsites (185).  
• Residents will now number approximately 250 plus children.
• Transient traffic will now be a maximum of around 500 people a day.

Phase IV-VII (Year 5+)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: 1,200 adults, plus children

• Completion of the first 7 Phases will include the rest of the 7 sustainable villages. This will provide a total of 260 residences for Pioneers, 12 Duplicable City Center rental rooms, 93 village rental rooms, and 265 camp sites.
• Residents will now number approximately 500 plus children.
• Transient traffic will now be a maximum of around 700 people a day.

Phase VIII (Year 10+)

TOTAL PROJECTED RESIDENCY: 2000 adults, plus children

• An example of Highest Good industry is planned for construction after the 7 sustainable villages. This will be a sustainable city designed based on everything we learned from all previous city constructions. It will house an additional 500-800 people and be purposed to provide a Highest Good approach to manufacturing a specific product within whatever industry we see such manufacturing as most beneficial.
• This is planned to add an additional 600 adult residents, plus children.
• It will also add rooms for an additional 200 visitors.