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Executive reaction has been predict ably hostile. More than 140 companies accepted a COLC invitation to comment on the new rules by Sept. 17; nearly 90% denounced them. Many objected that management will find it difficult to at tract top-quality people on short notice...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...
Other communities have passed laws limiting the height of buildings, thus curbing population density. Sanbornton, N.H., has zoned half its land against tract developers, ruling that new houses can be built only on six-acre lots. Livermore, Calif, issues building permits on the basis of the availability of water, sewage facilities and schools. Carson City, Nev., has chosen Boca Raton's route, and will cut off any further growth when its population hits...
Moratoriums and other emergency devices mainly represent a desperate reaction to the processes of uncontrolled growth. Since World War II, for instance, the rich potato farm lands of Nassau County, just beyond the eastern limits of New York City, have been transformed by tract houses, shopping centers, neon strips and drive-ins. Today the county is 96% fully developed, and the old distinctions between town and country are completely blurred in the semiurban mess. Similar helter-skelter growth afflicts counties around every major city, from coast to coast...
...BROAD, 40. Head of Kaufman and Broad, which he built into the nation's largest independent home builders (revenues: $340 million in the past year), by offering low-to middle-income tract houses at prices below those of competitors...