Read moreI don't think that is possible unless you have some kind of wild bug. Go the map, there are different areas for settlements and personal property. A town foundation has it's usual property (they start with 9 claims) but it also projects a range that shows the town borders (the range of it's laws etc).
To form a town, you put down the town foundation in a valid Room, then make sure you have the constitution how you want it. Then once you have 3 members joined, you can vote to ratify the constitution. Once succeeded in the vote, you can go back to the foundation to form the town.
All that being said, ECO is still a pretty buggy/glitchy game. If you can't see the foundation, just restart ECO and it usually fixes visual stuffs like that. Restarting the game fixes most bugs like that.
FURTHER if you are interested in playing in a pretty relaxed server with lots of helpful people who answer questions, check out my server Ecophoria. We are 7 days into a 40 day seas...
They did have a wild bug :)
Also, could you please stop the unsolicited ads for your server - I've noticed them quite a few times. Server ads only belong into the megathread and otherwise may only be posted if a user has explicitly asked for recommendations, which as far as I can see was not the case here. Thank you!