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Notes on Community Development Page
There are only two sources for the first five paragraphs. Honestly, throughout the entire article I noticed that there were few sources sited in the footnotes. I did not check all of the links, but of the dozen or so I checked, only a couple of them were unavailable, and they all seemed reasonably credible (however, I'm not sure about Taylor and Francis Online, only because I am unfamiliar with it).

The first bit of the Global North section about intentional communities seems oddly placed, maybe like it should go toward the end or at least get its own header rather than just serving as "history."

I noticed on the talk page that people were not hesitant to make changes to the article either by adding or removing content, but they consistently provided explanation for the changes they made, and information so that anyone could un-do those decisions.

Notes on Heidelberg Project Page
I noticed that the Heidelberg Project page is more thoroughly documented than the Community development page, however at the same time it has a few "citation needed" references, which did not appear on the Community Development page. More of the citations also lead to news articles, rather than academic sources. This is true also for the "further reading section" - which I noticed contains very fun and interesting articles and links to sites on the Heidelberg Project page. I also noticed a sentence in the Heidelberg Project page that I would change grammatically for clarity.

Looking at the Edit History Statistics for the two pages, I noted that there have been just over twice as many edits on the Community Development page by just over twice as many users. 

County Commission
A county commission (also known as a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals. In some counties in Georgia however, a sole commissioner holds the authority of the commission. (See National Association of Counties http://www.naco.org )

The commission acts as the executive of the local government, levies local taxes, administers county governmental services such as prisons, courts, public health oversight, property registration, building code enforcement, and public works such as road maintenance. The system has been supplanted in large part as disparate sparsely settled regions become urbanized and establish tighter local governmental control usually in municipalities, but in many more rural states the county commission retains more control and even in some urbanized areas may be responsible for significant government services.

History
William Penn, colonial founder of Pennsylvania is credited with originating the system of County Commissioners in the United States.

On February 28, 1681, Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn to repay a debt of £16,000 (around £2,100,000 in 2008, adjusting for retail inflation) owed to William's father, Admiral William Penn. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history. It was called Pennsylvania. William Penn, who wanted it called New Wales or Sylvania, was embarrassed at the change, fearing that people would think he had named it after himself, but King Charles would not rename the grant. Penn established a government with two innovations that were much copied in the New World: the county commission and freedom of religious conviction.