I believe it was $99 for a lifetime membership.

Yes, but you will need to be given enough membership interest in the LLC and I would make sure that the operating agreement are protecting my investment (no clause to quick me out of the membership, first distributions to reimburse my investment, before sharing the next distributions with all members, ...). 

List of licensed contractors on the permit application, stamped architectural drawings, site plan or plat of survey indicating the location of the proposed structure on the property showing all setbacks to lot lines.  

Sadly, I walked away from a 400K property during DD and it cost me 8K in inspections and surveys a couple months ago (BAM...

-When you find a listing, ask the Assessor’s office: property address, flat map, survey map, google earth, -Scrub list looking for “VL” Vacant Lot.

The former often require a vote and 51% or 2/3 of the total Membership for approval, while the latter can often be changed with only approval by a majority of the Board of Directors.Your By-Laws generally tell you how the HOA is to be operated, including when, how, and with what type and timing of notice is required to have the Annual Membership Meeting, and, separately, the "regular" Board of Directors meetings.

It also seems like a repeat business so advertising would be a way to juice membership allowing for a bigger/nicer place 1 block away. 

Based on that, you should find a RE Attorney and ask for a review of all docs, including the survey.  

I downloaded almost all of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey data from its first year of publication, 2005, to its most recent, 2017, and built a linear regression model to see what metrics actually correlate to rising rents.I found the following metrics, in the following order, correlate best to rising rents:Limited supply (as measured by a growing persons-per-unit ratio)Median household income growthJob growthPopulation growthMy analysis suggests that your criteria are in reverse order from what they should be -- that growing incomes and job growth are more important than population growth.

If you're still interested in doing this, just get a survey done, present it to the city for feedback and go from there.