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nominal family payment, perhaps as low as $3 a month, a home- 

 owner can enjoy the green open areas and recreation facilities. The 

 administration of protective covenants including architectural con- 

 trols and less frequently exterior maintenance of the individual home 

 are also homes association functions for assurance of long-term con- 

 servation of the beauty of a neighborhood. The Homes Association 

 Handbook, a recent publication of the Urban Land Institute of 

 Washington, D.G., contains comprehensive information on all phases 

 of homes associations. 



The recreation open areas and facilities owned and operated by 

 a homes association are intended to supplement, not duplicate, ex- 

 isting and anticipated public recreation and conservation programs. 

 Moreover, all or a part, of the recreation area within a planned-unit 

 development conceivably could come under public ownership as a 

 part of the over-all open space system of a local governmental unit. 



Late in 1963 FHA published a technical bulletin entitled "Planned- 

 Unit Development With the Home Association." It illustrates out- 

 standing examples of housing developments which incorporate the 

 planned-unit development. This technique is applicable for resi- 

 dential development of any size and some of the development plans 

 for the new community incorporate the features of planned-unit 

 technique. 



The judgment concerning proper relationship between residential 

 building mass and land area is obviously of prime importance, par- 

 ticularly when considering a development which incorporates several 

 housing types. FHA has produced a new system of measurement 

 called "land-use intensity." It establishes, from a single base, a wide 

 variety of relationships between constructed facilities, amenities, and 

 land area. It considers such things as floor area to land area, open 

 space to floor area, recreation space to floor area, and car space 

 to the number of living units. Technical details are published in 

 FHA Land Planning Bulletin No. 7, Land-Use Intensity and FHA 

 Minimum Property Standards for Multifamily Housing. 



The planned-unit development is by no means an end to our prog- 

 ress in residential land use. It is, however, an advanced concept 

 which is only beginning to make its impact on what will be the new 

 suburbia. Local planning commissions and other governmental 

 bodies are now making provisions for the planned-unit development 

 concept in "General Development Plans" and implementing codes 

 and ordinances. Guidance on these matters is available through 

 local insuring offices of the Federal Housing Administration, Tech- 



