Community Input

Results from Phase III Community Forums

Building Industry Association (BIA) - April 11, 2000

Our Slogan

  • Positive
  • Beautiful area
  • Friendly

Our Reputation

  • Great place to live and work
  • Great place to raise families
  • Great education performance - 60% taking SAT and college

Business Environment

  • Promote new industries

Arts & Culture

  • Center of various types of entertainment and the arts
  • Support of arts in education

Heart of the City

  • Pedestrian friendly activities & business

Technology

  • Availability of technological networking

Transportation

  • Kern River Freeway
  • Freeway loop
  • Wxpressways

Our Values

  • Affordable housing

Biggest Changes

  • Water year round in the Kern River

Break Thrus

  • Textile industry In Kern

Looking Back I'm most proud of…

  • Clean air
  • Affordable housing
  • Extensive trail systems

What's our Vision for our Economy over the next 10-20 years?

  • 3% unemployment

What kind of Economic Development Initiatives do we want to create?

  • Better beltways into and out of surrounding communities
  • Air transportation - new terminal

What kind of Jobs do we want to attract here over the next 10-20 years?

  • Computer technology as in Silicon Valley
  • Diversify economic base

Our Vision for Downtown

  • Golden State Hwy tie into NW (Hageman)
  • Streetscape, restaurants, pedestrian plaza downtown
  • Nordstroms, J.Crew, Williams & Sonoma stores
  • Enhanced Central Park with concerts and Gardens
  • Cute quaint housing S. of California
  • Clean up area S of California - stores/shopping, better streetscapes
  • Lakeview - more homes in vacant areas built by Habitat for Humanity
  • More housing development projects in NE
  • Streetscape TruxtunW of Hwy 99

In our community's future we wanted and we got…

  • High tech jobs with education
  • Higer education performance
  • Continued enhancement of streets - additional landscaping in older areas, etc
  • Trail systems - along river & NW
  • Downtwon area - hub of entertainment and shopping
  • Enhanced River areas
  • More bike trail areas
  • Incentives for downtown housing and development

What we didn't want and didn't get…

  • Crive/gangs/drugs
  • Air pollution/smog
  • Higher school fees
  • Higher transportation fees
  • Disincentives to develop
  • Bad air

2010 Planning Area - Metro Bakersfield

  • Marketplace like development in NW
  • Residential/commercial in NE/Rio Bravo area
  • Freeway 58 beltway S of metro Bakersifled (Panama/Taft Hwy)
  • Freeway 178 deoparting at Haley, along Truxtun, joining Stockdale Hwy to I-5