City Plan for Huntington, W. Va.

Abstract

The object of a plan is to give a general picture and program to which the city may in the course of time grow. The design of the City of Huntington as planned by Rufus Cook at the instigation of Collis P. Huntington some sixty years ago was adequate to suit the needs of the city up to a certain point. The part of the city laid out by Cook even today is in practically every instance, adequate for modern demands. However, proper extensions of the plan of Cook were not made to take care of the ever growing city and as a result, Huntington in general, is planned in a piecemeaJ, rather than a unified or comprehensive fashion. This is especially true of the sporadic development of subdivisions. The City of Huntington should profit by this experience, and develop a plan for the city not simply to take care of present needs, but also the probable needs of the city fifty years hence. [From introductory section]