Community Input

Results from Phase III Community Forums

Westchester Kiwanis - April 21, 2000

Our Slogan

  • We are not L.A. North

Our Image

  • The cleanest air in California
  • More attractive entrances to city
  • A little bit of country and a little bit of rock n roll

Our Reputation

  • A good place to raise a family

Business Environment

  • High Tech
  • More dairies
  • Small factories

Arts & Culture

  • A real symphony orchestra
  • A symphony hall

Education

  • Bring back industrial arts to the high schools
  • An enforced code of discipline

Heart of the City

  • Just business conditions

Our Values

  • People who CARE

Transportation

  • Light rail service
  • High speed rail downtown
  • More public transportation
  • Better bicycle access

Biggest Changes

  • All gangs eradicated

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

  • Curtail excess of environmentalists
  • More dairies - fewer cows
  • Fewer dairies - more cows
  • More local bonds for schools
  • Small industrial factories

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

  • More trees
  • Tax incentives for small businesses

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

  • More computer jobs
  • Professionals
  • High tech
  • Light industry

Our Vision for Downtown

  • New baseball stadium and ice rink in the K.C. Museum area
  • Baseball Park N of Truxtun W of Union
  • Senior Housing and repair of old business or removal of eye sores, plus more trees S of California, W of Union
  • Commercial development in the Lakeview Area
  • Light rail running along Truxtun, Hwy 178/24th, & Chester Ave.

In our Community's Future We Wanted and We Got…

  • An improved expanded bike path that is so "smooth" you can rollerblade on it
  • Grade and high schools open 12 mos. A year
  • Facilities for teenagers sports and social
  • Universal garbage pick up
  • Curbside recycling
  • Subway
  • Clean up Hwy 99 corridor
  • All buildings and development to require an architect's overview and approval
  • More people involved in Kiwanis
  • New building balanced by redevelopment or revitalization of older areas
  • Full buildings and land downtown

In our Community' Future We Didn't Want and We Didn't Get…

  • Sludge
  • Graffiti
  • Litter
  • Dirty air
  • A bigger population
  • L.A. people
  • Dirty freeways
  • Cheap housing (tracts)
  • Sprawling growth that overruns farmland

Metropolitan Bakersfield - 2010 General Planning Area

  • Freeway that circles the city
  • Green belt along the Kern Freeway
  • Upgrade Airpark for commercial aviation
  • 9 hole Executive golf course at Mesa Marin
  • No water projects (lack of water)
  • Full FASCAR/cart facility (2 mile oval trial course) near Mesa Marin
  • Make Rosedale Hwy a freeway
  • Freeway to I5 along river