As a result of the adoption of new communities policy, many new communities are planned and being established in Egypt. In the absence of service supply standards, planners depend upon their own conceptualization of service supply rates. Their particular experience and continuos improvisation have lead to the application of their own views for each new community, depending on their own studies and professional experience. This could be seen as the right approach for achieving the supply standards found to satisfy local demand for services, relative to the particular socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the society intended to inhabit the communities. Moreover, it has been noted throughout the last decades that, service supply standards for new communities have differed from those available in the existing communities because of the economic pressures during this period.
However, indicators for the service standards must exist. This will provide for flexible standards that will allow the selection of the suitable standard for each society .The importance of this issue becomes clearer if the economics of establishing such services is taken into considerations. Since, it greatly affects the amount of investment needed for developing these services, within their settlements. Moreover, such indicators will provide the basis for maintaining social justice between the divers communities of the society with regard to national commitment for service supply. In other words, the national commitment for delivery of specific standard of services to each citizen, is a tool for achieving social balance, and ensures the achievement of a particular standard of living.
2) THE PROBLEM
The absence of local Egyptian standards for services which consider the planner’s tool; It is essential to formulate a range of service standards to be used by planners in Charge of service supplies sector within the planning team. These standards will serve as directive indicators for putting forward the specific service standard for the community under planning, considering the particular characteristic of such community . This argument is further, reinforced by the fact that most of the developed countries have gone through the experience of developing service standards for their communities over the years. The above-illustrated experiences of the developed countries provide such service standards. Accordingly, A number of Egyptian new communities must be selected for the case study in order to examine service areas (standards which used in the planning of these communities). It is essential to find a system of measure (parameter scale) for the currently diverse service standards. This scale can be induced by the use of computer analysis and programs.
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