7. SUMMARY
7.1 The San Tin planning and development procedure initiated by the San Tin Development & Management Company is a first step toward a comprehensive and balanced "whole environmental" improvement within the 4 square mile San Tin village region. It also provides a major nucleus of balanced rural and urban develop- ment in the North West New Territories, with many favourable impacts within the San Tin watershed, and beyond.
7.2 Besides its obvious local and regional impacts, San Tin Rural New Town is a community designed for people: young and old, traditional, and new arrivals. Word symbols like landscape, hillslopes, marshland, culture, history, rural industry, integration, recreation; middle income housing, balance, old and new; and most of all "community" should characterize San Tin. And hopefully, in time, out of it will grow that elusive seed of community consciousness within which lies the only opportunity for New Territories communities green and clean and free of crime; for families with eyes fixed on the future, but with roots set in "living" tradition. Communities where home and workplace mean enjoyment, where individual and communal needs can be consistently sought, met, and perpetuated.
7.3 San Tin is an opportunity for Government to extend self-representative community planning and development rights, and responsibilities, to a large culturally and environmentally self-contained village-based region in the rural New Territories. An opportunity to develop in San Tin, the one thing that the new New Territories needs so much: a sense of past and present responsibility and fit (belonging); a sense of the future; a sense of true community.
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