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The overhead gondola network traverses every town, city, and park in the Bunch. You board at the center inner wall gateways or the center outer wall gateways. Along the outer wall, the line circles the full perimeter of your town — then connects directly to the adjacent town, city, or park at its center gateways. No car, no rideshare, no bus schedule: cabins run continuously. The gondola is funded as town infrastructure from the first raise. Inter-Bunch travel is handled by the Bouquet transit layer.

A dedicated section of the outer wall holds the town's exclusive rental car concession — pitched at the vacation road trip, not daily use, because daily use needs no car here. During the raise, rental operators bid for the space, and pledgers signal through social media exactly which car types and brands they want to rent. The winning operator holds a 3-year lease. At term end, stewards vote: renew, or replace with a different operator. Like everything in URBAL, the fleet in your town exists because your community chose it.

Your monthly fee includes Direct Primary Care — primary and preventive care visits, lab work, and prescriptions at manufacturing cost through the open-source pharma program. Your physician is a steward who holds a clinic lease on the inner wall and re-competes annually through Mainstay. There is no insurance company in the chain. Emergency care and catastrophe coverage are separate escrow-funded lines in your monthly fee.

The 24 Spice Trays run between URB blocks — some 40 feet wide, some 80 feet wide. Format ranges from 10×10 ft kiosks to 80×80 ft four-story cultural anchors. Every operator holds a commercial lease that re-competes in December. Stewards flag underperformers in July. The street that exists on December 31 is the one your community chose. No corporate landlord. No legacy lease. Every business earned its place within the past year.

Employers hold outer wall leases on two sides of each URB. Professional LLCs — doctors, teachers, attorneys, architects — operate on the inner wall. Teacher LLCs hold 1:12 ratios and contract directly with the town. Working inside URBAL means your commute is a two-block walk. The 49-job limit per employer keeps the town diverse. Employers re-compete annually — the jobs stay as long as the employer earns its lease.

Every URB's rooftop holds K–12 schools and cooperative daycare — behind privacy-glass mansard, with access from the building's upper floors. The school is staffed by teacher LLCs under 1:12 ratios. Daycare from 6 weeks. The hydroponic rooftop garden sits adjacent to the school level. URBAL University provides a 2-year pipeline into a full degree program. All of it is included in your monthly fee. No lottery. No waitlist.

Every December, you vote on every commercial lease in your town. The café you hate — you can flag it in July and vote it out in December. The gallery you love — your vote keeps it. The employer who treats workers badly — gone by January 1. You are not a consumer rating a business. You are a co-owner of the town making a binding governance decision. The immutable ledger record is permanent. No one can overrule your vote.

In a car-dependent community — which is to say, in virtually every community in America — the car is not optional. It is the mandatory infrastructure of adult participation. The American Automobile Association calculates the average annual cost of vehicle ownership at $12,000–$14,000 per year per vehicle. That is not a luxury. It is the toll of living in a place designed for cars. At 225 hours per year in vehicles — the national average commute time — that is 11 full 40-hour work weeks consumed annually by managed waiting. In an URBAL town, the $12,000 does not exist. The Form-Based Code makes the road grid structurally impossible. There is nowhere to drive and no reason to. The $12,000/year invested at 7% annually over 30 years becomes $1.13 million. That is the retirement account that car dependency prevents.

Food sovereignty operates on three overlapping supply layers. Layer 1: the Outer Wall rooftop — 4 miles of continuous growing surface, half hydroponic (greens, herbs, tomatoes, year-round) and half raised bed (root vegetables, legumes). Produce is in the Spice Tray restaurants within the week. Layer 2: the periurban supply ring — farms within 20–50 miles that pledged supply during the raise, selected through community signal and steward vote. Layer 3: former landowner farms — the family that sold the PLSS section often becomes the town's primary supply partner. Their land surrounds the town. The relationship that transferred the land feeds what was built on it.