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What's A Comprehensive Plan?
A Comprehensive Plan is a formal planning document, adopted by resolution to provide aspirational and strategic continuity across time and to support successive public bodies with a shared community vision.
A Comprehensive Plan establishes the framework to focus future public and private investments. It also describes the actions that are needed to realize its community derived vision. Because a comprehensive plan is developed through a citizen-driven process, it creates political and societal accountability for its success.
Why It's Needed?
To reap the rewards of its ongoing success and to build a City that attracts people to live, create, do business and recreate here.
Critical Goals Of The Gastonia2050 Plan
Integrate existing plans and initiatives into a community-wide vision for the future.
Create a resource to inform policy decisions.
Set priorities and responsibilities.
Outline specific goals and strategies to achieve the vision.
Align Strategic, Capital Improvement Plans, Budgets, and Department Acting Plans.
Used by Staff and Leadership to initiate tasks and make decisions.
What Does It Include?
The Gastonia2050 Smart City Ambitions Comprehensive Plan will include goals, strategies, focal area plans, and implementation measures that reflect the community-driven process that created the Plan. The Plan is a starting point – where vision is articulated, and implementation is identified. It lays the framework for future action but purposefully does not resolve all these goals, plans, and measures. Gastonia2050 itself identifies and coherently describes what further work must be done by the community to realize an agreed upon vision.
View our 2025 Comprehensive Plan to see an overview of how we plan to roll out each part of our Comprehensive Plan and its goals.
