Thanks for the responses. I should have prefaced and qualified my discussion. I live in southern California, which is densely populated. And because much of the population of America lives in densely populated areas, we need to consider permaculture in such environments if there is going to be any sort of substantial shift from our current mainstream path of destruction.
The types of things to be enforced by the CC&Rs would be only those that are dependent on close proximity of neighbors and not dependent on any societal variables, and the rules would be meant only to enforce the prevention of those things that are likely to cause harm to the area. As a good example, if you lived only 50 yards from your neighbor, you would want to be sure that a humanure composting system were done correctly to prevent pathogenic contamination of your neighbor's property. So say, 6 people decided to have a community and one decided to leave. You wouldn't want the new buyer of one of the parcels, for example, to start having their feces running into your back yard and giving your whole family hepatitis B by way of contamination of your root crops. Similarly, you wouldn't want this same new occupant to start washing baby's poop accidents down the drain into the graywater system during a heavy rain, which could cause a similar problem to that of a poorly maintained humanure system.
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