Layout
Maker Kitchen
A 1,000 sq ft home and a 1,200 sq ft commercial kitchen for value-added food: preserves, baked goods, sauces, with its own garden and hoop house supplying it.
What's on the lot
Every part, in plain words.
Living
- Porch40 × 8 ftA covered porch across the front of the home.
- Home40 × 25 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.
Access
- Drive16 × 36 ftThe gravel drive from the community lane to the lot.
- Parking pad30 × 14 ftSpace for the household's vehicles, and for customers or deliveries on Maker lots.
- Path4 × 26 ftA firm walking path between the parking pad, the home and the working areas.
Growing
- Kitchen garden44 × 24 ftRaised beds close to the home for the household's own vegetables and herbs.
- Orchard32 × 22 ftFruit and nut trees planted in rows; in a silvopasture layout, poultry graze beneath them.
- Hoop house60 × 18 ftA plastic-covered tunnel that extends the growing season. A common size is 30 by 72 ft.
- Produce stand12 × 12 ftA roadside stand at the lane where neighbours and the network's pick-up runs collect produce.
Making
- Loading apron40 × 14 ftHard standing in front of the production building for deliveries and pick-ups.
- Production building40 × 30 ftA separate building of 1,000 to 2,000 sq ft on a Maker lot, for a workshop, small factory or commercial kitchen.
Utilities
- Solar array24 × 26 ftA ground-mounted solar array that powers the home and working areas.
- Rainwater cistern8 × 8 ftA tank that collects rainwater from roofs for irrigation and animals.
- Compost bays12 × 12 ftThree-bay compost bins that turn garden and animal waste into soil.
- Septic field30 × 30 ftWastewater ground. See the wastewater plans: shared sewer, or a septic system on the 150 × 150 ft lot.
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
- 3 bedrooms, 400 gallons a day
- Septic tank
- 1,000 gallons
- Drain field
- 7 trenches of 61 ft, 10 ft or more from the home and every lot line
- Makes room by
- Moving or giving up the orchard, compost bays
- Kitchen grease trap
- 500 gallons, outside the kitchen building
- Kitchen treatment unit
- 500 gallons a day, with disinfection, separate from the home's system
- Kitchen field
- 2 trenches of 50 ft
- Lot
- Half acre, 21,780 sq ft
- Sewer pipe
- 104 ft of 4 inch pipe to a stub at the street
- Cleanouts
- 3, 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.
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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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