Land question first. Then power, water, road. Homes last.

Before the first wall. A Five Capitals baseline — not just the financial one — has to exist before the first shovel moves: what the water is worth before anything is built near it, the soil's carbon and biodiversity baseline, what cultural and social fabric already exists on the ground, what the next generation inherits either way. A land trust, with fixed voting weights and a real veto held by whoever has the deepest standing relationship with the place, has to be chartered before capital arrives — not drafted afterward to formalize whatever already happened.

What the land grows first. Before residents worth counting, before a name anyone outside the region recognizes: food, water, and energy, working in miniature, before anyone can responsibly ask a family to move in and depend on them. The design target: seventy to ninety percent of a MicroCity's own food requirement produced inside its own boundary, through diverse, layered systems rather than a single method staked on working perfectly.

The first hundred days. A road, a water line, and a promise the power will still be on after the first real storm — proven, before a single home is sold on the promise of them. Get that sequence backward — announce the homes before the utilities are proven — and the gap between the announcement and the delivery becomes the whole story.