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Neighborhood Issues in Huntington and Cabell County
Here we discuss issues of importance to every city and neighborhood in Cabell County, W.Va. What do you see as issues? What are the most pressing needs? What positive things are happening? Together, we can make Huntington and Cabell County a better area in which to work, play, study and raise a family. Have your say right now. Just click on the "Post Comments" button at the end of each posting; you can post anonymously. Together, we will accomplish anything we can imagine!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Create Huntington Is All About Community Collaboration

According to several internet sources relating to neighborhood renewal there are five factors that lead to neighborhood deterioration: housing factors, zoning factors, property maintenance and building deterioration, concentration of social and public services and the pull to the suburbs.

The City of Huntington and its citizens must address these factors, if we are to renew our city. Since Huntington is unable to expand its boundaries, our best opportunity is to look within.

Maybe, we can attract some of the people who have left for the suburbs to come back and be part of the renewal of our community. For that to occur, the City of Huntington and its citizens must demonstrate that when a city and a neighborhood come together to address problems, the results can be phenomenal. That is what Create Huntington is about - community collaboration.

Check it out at www.createhuntington.com.