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Welcome to Life In Gastonia. Take a tour on the Westside (and elsewhere)! Please visit regularly and provide us with your comments as we try to improve the lives of residents that live on the West side of Gastonia and the city as a whole. Many visitors and comments remind us that the issues we address as problems for the Westside are also problems for the whole city. We have updated the site and included more sections and features to address all of these issues. Our focus is still the Westside, as we feel this area has been the most neglected by the city and we have a standing invitation to the City and County leaders to provide us with information on improvements and projects for
the West District and other areas. Change starts at home in our own neighborhood. Take a Stand Gastonia!
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Life on the west side of Gastonia for most residents is anything but Great as the official City slogan would have you believe. Great Place. Great People. Great Promise. Instead, for the Westside we like to use the slogan Great People, Dismal Place, Broken Promises. It is not a very uplifting or inspiring slogan but it fits much better. There are many truly wonderful people in our neighborhoods but they have been ignored and forgotten. They feel abandoned and hopeless. Most dream of the day when they can afford to move somewhere else. These are not signs of a healthy growing community. It is definitely not a sign of a
great place or any type of great promise. 
We have decided to make our struggle public. To let everyone know that we care,
we will no longer be ignored, and we are trying to make changes. We can not do it alone. We face a tremendous task that so far only we, the residents, have agreed to pursue. We are coming together with our voices to see that we get the change we
so desperately need.
This website will allow everyone to experience in word and picture what daily life for Westside residents is like. We will also document correspondence with the city leadership and provide the latest statistics on crime, housing and education. We
want to provide you with a window into our community and why we are desperately trying to change it. Our families and our futures depend on it. We will have change. We will make a difference. We will succeed!
Please look around the website and get a feeling for what we live with on a daily basis.
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Our goal is to change the following:
-zoning
-better code enforcement
-decrease in crime
-increase in home ownership
-improved commercial sector
-area improvements to the esthetic and visuals
-improved city services
-better communication with city departments
-improve education opportunities
-increase recreational opportunities for families
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