Complex sentence: Recognition of these exurbs as community settlements developed only gradually, since they differed from the standard establishmentarian norms of being'cooperative' and'productive': the first, Ofra, being established only in 1975, and four of the first five were unauthorized.
Split into simpler sentences: Recognition of these exurbs as community settlements developed only gradually, since they differed from the standard establishmentarian norms of being'cooperative' and'productive'. The first community settlement, Ofra, being established only in 1975, and four of the first five were unauthorized.