Layout
Builder Starter
A 560 sq ft starter home built by the owner with AUM's crew, with ground kept for a 240 sq ft addition and a build yard that is cleared once the home is finished.
What's on the lot
Every part, in plain words.
Living
- Porch28 × 8 ftA covered porch across the front of the home.
- Home28 × 20 ftThe small livable home AUM builds with the upfront payment: up to about 800 sq ft, or up to 1,000 sq ft on a Maker lot.
- Future addition12 × 20 ftGround kept clear beside the home so it can grow later, up to the package's size limit.
Access
- Drive12 × 40 ftThe gravel drive from the community lane to the lot.
- Parking pad22 × 16 ftSpace for the household's vehicles, and for customers or deliveries on Maker lots.
- Path4 × 24 ftA firm walking path between the parking pad, the home and the working areas.
Growing
- Kitchen garden48 × 24 ftRaised beds close to the home for the household's own vegetables and herbs.
- Hoop house48 × 24 ftA plastic-covered tunnel that extends the growing season. A common size is 30 by 72 ft.
- Market rows88 × 36 ftIn-ground growing rows sized for selling produce through AUM's partner and grocery network.
- Produce stand12 × 12 ftA roadside stand at the lane where neighbours and the network's pick-up runs collect produce.
Animals
- Poultry coop and run24 × 28 ftA coop with a fenced run for laying hens or meat birds.
Making
- Build yard28 × 28 ftA temporary staging area for materials while the owner and AUM's crew build. It is cleared once the home is finished.
Utilities
- Tool and feed shed12 × 6 ftA small shed for tools, seed and feed.
- Septic field24 × 30 ftWastewater ground. See the wastewater plans: shared sewer, or a septic system on the 150 × 150 ft lot.
- Rainwater cistern8 × 8 ftA tank that collects rainwater from roofs for irrigation and animals.
- Solar array13 × 10 ftA ground-mounted solar array that powers the home and working areas.
- Compost bays12 × 12 ftThree-bay compost bins that turn garden and animal waste into soil.
Buffer
- Hedgerow148 × 11 ftA planted strip of shrubs and small trees along the lot line for privacy, windbreak and pollinators.
Sewer or septic
Its own septic system.
Every homesite is 150 by 150 feet with its own septic system. A shared-sewer version is drawn too, as a backup plan. Both pass the same checks.
- Lot
- 150 × 150 ft, 22,500 sq ft
- Sized for
- 2 bedrooms, 300 gallons a day
- Septic tank
- 750 gallons
- Drain field
- 8 trenches of 36 ft, 10 ft or more from the home and every lot line
- Makes room by
- Moving or giving up the build yard
- Lot
- Half acre, 21,780 sq ft
- Sewer pipe
- 86 ft of 4 inch pipe to a stub at the street
- Cleanouts
- 2, plus one at the stub
- Water line
- Its own trench, 6 ft or more from the sewer
- Septic ground
- Becomes garden beds
Gold: sewer pipe and cleanouts. Blue dashes: water line. Dashed outlines: ground the option uses for something else.
Every homesite has its own septic system
Every homesite is 150 by 150 feet, just over half an acre, with its own septic system. On a Maker Kitchen lot, the kitchen also gets its own treatment unit, because a food business cannot share the home's system. The health department approves each system before it is built. Each lot sheet also shows a shared-sewer version.
From the Louisiana sanitary code, July 2026 edition. Official source.
Comes with
Packages for this layout.
Site plans are concepts. The site plans here are drawings of how a site could look. They are not surveys, and they are not an offer of a particular lot.
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