Good Neighbors Planning Alliance
The Good Neighbors’ Planning Alliance (GNPA) is a neighborhood-based planning process and a part of the City of Buffalo’s ongoing Comprehensive Planning efforts. It seeks to actively involve citizens in the creation of community-based action plans in each of the City’s eleven planning sectors. The GNPA is also a community empowerment process whereby community members will have an official voice in determining the future direction of their own neighborhoods.
The Mission of the Good Neighbors Planning Alliance is to:
- Include diverse individuals and groups in the process of improving the community
- Establish new partnerships within the community
- Build the community’s capacity to address complex problems
- Improve conditions such as housing, education, recreation and the physical environment
- Improve public policies and services that impact the community
- Improve the quality of life for all
(source: The Northeast Neighborhood News November 2004, Volume 1 No 1 Page 1)