Private housing associations with covenants, conditions and restrictions are setting the rules that many middle-class Americans have live by. What is the impact of the growth of planned communities on the nation? Should we be concerned?
"Private housing associations increasingly lay down the laws that middle-class Americans live by. What are they doing to the country?...In many of the fastest-growing parts of America, development is being driven by 'master-planned communities' of one sort or another...Some residents have to cough up for maintaining the roads, pavements and street lights, looking after the parks and providing security. A maximum size for dogs?usually 30lbs?is increasingly common. Leisure World, California, has its own television station. The proliferation of [covenants, conditions and restrictions ] is driven by the trend towards master-planned communities...where the developer tries to create not just a cluster of homes but a way of life."Article examines the growth of planned communities and including communities designed for particular activities.
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