Community Input
Results from Phase III Community Forums
West High - April 4, 2000
Our Slogan
- Little town, big heart
- Where you want to be
- The future starts in the present-starts with us
- Hate the game not the player
Our Image
- City of music
- Kool Kids with Kool Ideas
- Big city
Our Reputation
- Known for our musical talent
- Better achievement in schools
- Agriculture
- Better city pride
- Known as a cowboy city
- Hard working
- Music
- Try to eliminate the "dirty road" hick town stereotype
- Clean people
Business Environment
- Better businesses that will provide work for the unemployed
- More good paying jobs
- More jobs for teenagers
- Higher minimum wage
- More entertainment (places to go for teenagers)
- Amusement/Water Park
- Encourage business to build on vacant lots within town
- More competition for car dealerships
- Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Parlor
- Tall skyscrapers with pool on top
- Bigger malls
- Fewer bars
- Fewer auto-repair shops
- Build a Krispy Kreme donut shop
- No more shoe stores
Arts & Culture
- Art museums
- Cultural fair
- Foreign languages should be taught rathern than Spanish (high schools)
- Bigger black history parade
- More rappers
- More art and music classes in schools
- Bigger and better museum
- No more Korn
- No more Buck Owens
Heart of the City
- Art school
- Classical music
- Performing arts school
- Park with lots of trees
- Centennial Gardens
- Water park
- Amusement park
- A renovated downtown
- Giant fountain
- Develop Central Park
- Too many punk clubs downtown..more variety needed
- Cultural center
- Entertainment
- IMAX Theater
- Big sports stadium
- Old time looking Bakersfield
- Edwards, Pacific Theaters
- Valley Plaza
- West High
Our Values
- Education
- Family
- Conservative
- Religion
- Staying clean
- No sex til marriage
- No divorces
- Parties
- To love one another
- More Christian radio stations and activities
Technology
- Super computers
- Computers that affordable
- A more diverse economy that helps teens get a better…in order to start off higher than before
- More books for the school - New ones.
- More computers for those students that have the skills to work
- More jobs
- Completely automated public toilets
- Free cellphones
Transportation
- GET bus
- Hovercraft
- Subway
- Cars that ron on energy
- Monorail
- High speed rail
- VW Bugs as taxis
- Cooler bus with toilets
Biggest Change
- No more trash
- Less drugs around our school
- More places where teenagers can hangout without getting in trouble
- More community involvement
- Better variety in clothes
- Better school parking
- Change name of Oildale
- Weather of our city
- Build new business structures downtown
- Extend 178 through Rosedale
- More lanes for traffic in Northwest Bakersfield
- Different transportation
Break Thrus
- Better education in school
- Ski slopes-manmade
- Better music and performing arts education
- Clean environment
- Drug free environment
- No racism
- Cleaning E. Bakersfield
- More job opportunities for teens
- No pollution
- Roads and transportation outside and within Bakersfield
- Less money for gas since we live nesx to Elk Hills
- More clubs
- Better buldings
- More police
- YMCA
Looking back I'm most proud of…
- Making it this far without kids
- Making it this far without having sex!
- Making it this far
In our Community's Future We Wanted and We Got
- Clean area
- More trees
- Recreational centers such as water parks, high paying jobs
- Higher minimum wage
- More fun activities
- Amusement parks
- More companies (bigger)
- More concerts
- Less fields and more buildings
- Lower gas prices
- More schools instead of jail
- Better shopping malls
- Faster speed limit
- Water parks
- Clubs, trees, parks, Black university
- Community painted murals
- Better & higher educated students
- More sports clubs
- Bigger & better parks and libraries
- Child care centers with cheaper prices
- Less grocery stores
- Better radio stations
- More scholarships for music students
- Professional choir
- Water Oarj -Hurrican Harbor
- Nordstroms
- Baseball stadium
- Pro football team
- Bigger race track
- Amusement Park (not like Camelot, bigger)
- A bigger public skate park
- A performing arts auditorium like San Luis
- Build up and not expand into our agricultural area
- Maze craze
- More people being in high tech societies
- Art colleges in town
- Better water treatment
- Orphanage
- Higher paying jobs
- More fire stations - better police
- Architecture firms
- More high school funds
- Better theatre department
- NBA team
- Krisy Kremes
- More senior independence
- Mall with rollercoaster
- Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles
- Developed SE Bakersfield
- Paintball arena
- More jobs in technology
- More activities for teens so they won't be on the streets
- More shopping areas in each housing area (lessen pollution)
- Concerts
- Brighter downtown
- Technical schools
- Fix up older schools
- Preserve agriculture in West
- 2nd floor to the Valley Plaza
- Strong cultural center
- Art museum
- Better doctor insurance
In Our Community's Future We Didn't Want and We Didn't Get..
- Promising careers for students that at the end, the career you chose is not worth a thing
- Teen pregnancy
- Money wasted on useless products such as waterparks
- Homeless people
- BPD
- Higher gas prices
- Dusty fields
- Crime
- Poverty
- Pollution - air, water
- Gangs
- Low paying jobs
- Sex offenders
- Busted up roads
- Run down houses/apartments that take up space
- Trashy environment
- Urban blight
- High unemployment
- More freeways
- No more cows and hicks
- Less gangs (organizations)
- People moving here
- Dairy
- Tumbleweeds
- High dependence on Ag and Oil
- Old downtown buildings
- EB degradation
- Teen pregnancy - poverty
- Cowboys
- Criminals
- Pesticides
- No curfew for teenagers
- Haters
- Pollution from S.F.
Our Vision for Downtown
- Water parks
- Pro Team
- Teenage clubs
- Child care centers all around downtown
- Museum
- Libraries all around downtown
- University
- Sidewalks, Grocery store, police substation = Lakeview
- Big shopping Mall
- Theme Park
- College
- Park with beautiful garden
- Renovated art museum
- Monorail all around downtown area
- Big football/baseball stadium
- Outlet Mall
- Record stores
- Subway
- Retirement homes near 34th
- Day care
- Orphanage and additl rec. center for youth
- Lakeview re-urbanization, car wash, gun safety courses, high school, National Guard, hospital, casino, amusement park
- Central Park - Lake
- Upgrade Union Ave. - hotels
- New businesses - jobs- less poverty - urban renewal along Golden Stat Hwy
- 34th Street/Columbus - recreational center like Marketplace
- New sports park, Water Park - S of Golden State
- Paint Ball Arena
- Water Park
- Teen Club
- Fill vacant buildings on California Ave.
- Re-do the river in parrk - expand Central Park
- New Hospital downtown
- Beale Ave.-destroy old buildings, "eye sores" - new business structures
- Preservation of older homes in area and renovation of land marks in our history - E of Beale
- Urban renewal E of Union on Truxtun
- Lakeview to Union Entertainment for teens, more street lights, more police activity, new housing, urban renewal, rec areas for young children
