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The commission is responsible also for addressing policies and procedures aiming at raising the efficiency of services and facilities connected with the improvement of the living standard of citizens and their welfare.
The High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh and its executive branch, Arriyadh Development Authority, have been established by virtue of the resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 717 issued on 28/5/1394H. Other regulations and rules were formulated stating its developmental and planning role by the resolution of the Minister of Interior No 4/212 issued on 20/1/1395 H. These regulations allow for high degree of flexibility in administration and financing and wide range of powers and jobs.
The great challenge of our time is to create sustainable communities, Structured in a manner that their way of life, business, economy, physical structure, and technology does not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life.
Sustainable communities are places where people want to live and work because they provide a good quality of life in an attractive and distinct areas, set with functional and safe neighborhoods that meet their diverse social and economic aspirations.
Sustainable communities are about quality of environments-but also about people and their individual and collective quality of life.
Throughout the last quarter of the Century the ADA, through the partnership with the Saudi and International designers has developed a new meaning for the contemporary local urbanism and architecture expressed in the milestone projects forming a solid framework defining the identity of the city of Riyadh.
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