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@@ -108,6 +108,22 @@ Candidates, ranked by honest cost:
    B/E polish rounds. Goldens untouched either way (plan hashes don't see meshes); budgets
    re-measured per archetype.
 
+6. **THE CIVIC LAYER (filed 2026-07-23, John's question — "do we have fountains/statues/
+   gardens?" Answer: no, and the town feels it).** Trees exist (wind-swaying billboard gums,
+   R17) and commerce exists; civic PRIDE doesn't — no parks, gardens, fountains, statues,
+   memorials, rotundas. The real-data angle makes this a first-class citizen of the real-map
+   DNA: **OSM maps all of it** (`amenity=fountain` · `historic=memorial` · `leisure=park/
+   garden`), and the **war memorial** — the defining civic marker of exactly the AU towns we
+   build — is mapped in nearly every one. Real towns get their actual memorial/park/rotunda
+   at actual positions via the existing ODbL fetch (one more class, standing auth); synthetic
+   towns get a seeded civic kit (memorial at the main intersection, rotunda + gums in a
+   pocket park, drinking fountain by the shops); statue/rotunda meshes via the local gen
+   stack (hunyuan3d_mlx, CC0-equiv, the instrument-pipeline discipline). Cheap-to-mid (B
+   furniture patterns + E assets + one A data class), incremental like the kit, and pairs
+   with it: terrain = the ground's shape, the kit = the buildings' shape, the civic layer =
+   the town's heart. A pocket park with a memorial is also the natural HOME BASE candidate
+   for v7.x (sleep on a park bench, you battler).
+
 ## The honest sequencing opinion (Fable's, not a ruling)
 
 The private-test deploy is the design instrument: John walks the game cold and writes down