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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

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