Phase III
Visioning
Meeting
Facilitator
Volunteers � February 8, 2000
Our
Slogan:
� A great place for wonderful people
� A great place to live
� Sun, Fun, Stay, Play (why not)
Our
Image:
� Clean
� Uplifts and supports children and families
� The place to be�
� Identifiable as a Great Central Valley town (not like everyone else)
Our
Reputation:
� Innovators!
� Includers
� Central Valley Leadership
� Love Bakersfield!!
� Great place to live
� People move here to retire
Civic
Culture:
� Inclusive
� Proud
� Diverse
�
Anyone that wants to participate can
Business
Environment:
�
Healthy & diverse
�
Companies desire to locate
here
�
�Clean� industries locating here
�
Many new industry clusters
�
High paying
�
Technology
�
Business concerned with employees�
health and well-being
Arts
& Culture:
� Children & youth actively participating in art & culture events/activities
� Diverse-reflective of our population
� People travel here to enjoy our talents
� Art for all; by all; respected
� Public art abundant
Heart
of the city:
� Vibrant!
� Tree lined streets!
� More schools
� Youth oriented
� Walkable
� Sooo�unique � featured in magazines
� Sidewalk cafes & entertainment
� Old and new work together
� Old neighborhoods are pleasing to the eye
� Less development on the automobile
� Invisible parking
� Riverfront commerce
� Good transportation to other parts of city
Technology:
� Technology-website based businesses
� Tech Center for Southern Calif.
� Availability
� High speed communication network to every home/business
Transportation:
� Big planes to big cities �non-stop�
� Electric vehicles/trams
� Street car from Baker St. to Chester
� Outlying communities with clean, easy access to hubs
� Public transportation accessible, affordable to all
� Attracting more airlines
Biggest
Changes:
What�s
Our Vision for Our Economy over the next 10-20 years?:
� Full employment in meaningful jobs
� Diverse ag-economy with value added production (world-wide)
� Utilize knowledge � don�t discriminate by age (young or old)
� Respect for all professions � trash collection makes a big difference
� New industry clusters that bring new technology, high pay, diversity
� Jobs that pay enough to live well above the poverty level
� Well-educated workforce
What
kind of Economic Development Incentives do we want to create?:
� Include the whole population
� Farmland conversion (zoning) � be clear where we want it and don�t
� Development zones (help it happen where it isn�t)
� Small business education plan
� Incentives for private revitalization of neighborhoods/business
� Support (financial incentives) to private businesses that contribute to public infrastructure development
What
kind of Jobs do we want to Attract over the next 10-20 years?:
� Jobs that pay a living wage at minimum
� High tech
� Professional
� Creative!
� Value-added to agriculture � food processing
� Medical
� Research
� Year round, livable wage, high tech, Ag industry
� Real good trained plumbers, automotive repair folks
� In field of personal development � emotional, spiritual as related to organizational effectiveness
� Diverse jobs..lots of opportunity to work and grow
Our
Vision for Downtown:
� More lights in trees
� Outstanding museums
� Large evening farmers market
� Street Fairs
� Unusual public sculpture & art work
� Bike lanes
� Very Colorful
� Outdoor theater
� Thriving downtown area with may private businesses
� More fountains and public squares
� Shops with display windows
� Create an entrance into downtown on Chester beginning at 58 freeway. Change off ramp from H Street to Chester
� Living space � rent and owned
� Fun! Neat place to go
� Clean attractive roads
� Combine fiscal/recreation activities
� Cool
� Unique, out of the ordinary; a place to be inspired
� Wonderful cafes
� Safety
� All ages together & ethnic groups
� Modest signage
� Flowers everywhere
� A department store in downtown
� A grocery store
� It�s identifiably Bakersfield (like Santa Barbara is SB) � in a good way
� Separate bike and walking paths
� A clean Central Park
� Unifying aesthetics in duilding design
� River through Central Park with bike & walking lanes
� Fishing
� Water fountains
� Water theme
� No cars in the center. People watching
� Downtown electric trolley
� Easy/safe bike parking
Our
Vision for the Riverwalk:
� Public art
� Flowers
� Window boxes
� Pedestrian malls
� Lots of trees and grass
� Some water fowl to feed and watch
� Scheduled activities
� Art Shows
� Celebrates our diversity � food, entertainment
� Development of shopping malls and restaurants
� Outdoor cafes
� Open space
� Tulip trees
� Music everywhere
� Affordable child care facility
� Carousel ( a real one)
� Farmer�s Market
� Integrated hotels, offices, shopping, housing
� Shuffle board, chess
� Outdoor stage
� Fountains
� Boat rides
� Trees
� Young/old together!
� Performing arts spaces
� Senior housing
� Street fairs
� Carnival
� Play structures
� Sand boxes
� Fenced areas
� Ease of public transportation
� Lake for non-motorized boats
� Expand the image of the river � within the community
Our
Neighborhood Vision:
Image:
�
Complete neighborhood
�
Safe � NE
�
Clean � no abandoned buildings �
East, and everywhere
�
Youth-oriented
�
Mixed use- single/multi-family
dwellings in a village atmosphere so each section in town develops its own
character
�
Walkable, bike rideable ( no more
walls and cul-de-sacs)
�
SE redevelop and equal part of the
community
Specific things to do:
� Shopping mall � Stockdale/West
� Fine dining � East
� Grocery shopping SE (Vons)
� Neighborhood Park/Rec East
� Support development of basic commercial services at the neighborhood level
� Walkable communities
� SE develop housing/commercial/industrial project
Values:
� Mixed in economic status and ethnic/racial diversity
� Family oriented
� Safe � families on porches, block parties
� No need for juvenile detention facilities
� Trust
� SE/location/affordable land
� All people respected
Goals:
� Revitalize slums � NE
� Bike patrols (community policing)
� SE organize the business/property owners to get involve in leading the mvoe to develop the area
Biggest Changes:
� Vision of neighborhood expands beyond the walls of the subdivision
� Shopping center that is supported and prospers in the Southeast and Northeast
� SE get the whole community behind effort to develop the area, working in the business/property owners as equal partners � public/private partnership
Other:
� No graffiti
� Community based health centers
� Neighborhood association
� SE deal with crime/gang/drug problem for area so investment capital will come into the area
Common
Themes:
� A lot of interaction with other community members
� Economic development in all parts of the community
� Make it better�
� Trend to make things more attractive
� Optimistic but superficial in some respects
� High tech
� Need more diversity
� Transportation
� Quality of life
� More people places � opportunities for interaction
� Educate people to reach financial independence and diversity
� Diverse and unique but all works together
� Plan for growth by all � building on quality, taking our future in our own hands
� Attract something big/new/better
� Having FUN..even downtown
� We like the out-of-doors: bike trails, sidewalk cafes, not inside
� Less dependence on single auto transport
� Inclusive
� Clean water
� Family
Better transit system to clue outsiders