Results from Phase III Community Forums:

Kern County Superintendent of Schools - April 12, 2000

Our Slogan:
� A place for everyone under the sun�

Our Image:
� Clean-respectable
� Safe
� One of the best places to live
� Beautiful city with lots of greenery - no more dry and dusty image

Our Reputation:
� The best place to live
� Hometown for everyone
� Escape from L.A.
� Community oriented
� People are our greatest strength
� Great place to live, to visit
� A city known for its creative architecture

Business Environment:
� Highest % of businesses partnering to build & support families (#1 in the nation)
� Environment and business ventures are compatible
� More friendly coop with state over taxes returned to community for public projects

Arts & Culture:
� Symphony Hall
� More Broadway Shows
� More Arts

Education:
� High parent involvement
� Child care providers
� Better pay for college teachers
� A U.C. (doctorettes)
� Affordable, quality childcare
� Kids excel at off the chart levels!
� Change the way we "do" school
� Known as a feeder for U.C.
� We can get P.h.d.'s here

Heart of the City:
� Unity and hope for all
� Operat house or state of the art musical center
� Trees
� Waterways
� Esthetics part of all development and redevelopment

Our Values:
� Diversity
� Honesty
� Strong families

Technology:
� Electronic manufacturing
� Computer
� Viable electric cars
� Control negative aspects of the internet - i.e. porn

Transportation:
� Hovercraft
� Monorail to L.A. & S.F.
� Major airline hub
� Convenient metro transportation
� No gasoline powered vehicles allowed
� Nice train station
� Bike lanes everywhere
� Freeway from East to West with off ramp to downtown
� California train system
� Large Airport with planes to all U.S. destinations

Biggest Changes:
� No homeless population
� Educational options
� Freeway from 99 to I5
� Mass rail link in valley

Break Thrus
� Gov. shared financial responsibility
� Agriculture breakthrough - control of pollens, pesticides
� Pollution free

Looking back I'm most proud of�
� Kern County collaboratives
� "incubation" support for new businesses What's our Vision for our economy over the next 10-20 years?
� Diversified - not dependent on Ag & Oil
� More cultural diversity and tolerance
� The weakerst of us can provide all that is desired by our families
� Unlimited opportunities to provide for our families
� The Grand Canal
� Let's develop a new Silicon Valley Industry

What kind of jobs do we want to attract here over the next 10-20 years?
� Technology
� Entertainment (movie making) industry
� Processing plants for our ag products
� Recreation/leisure center
� Software development
� Ag program for Cal State Bakersfield
� Everything
� City & County recreation upgrades that hire students while providing needed service

Our Vision for Downtown
� Riverwalk/parkway near Museum with Art Galleries
� 24th Street (Chester to Oak): Grocery store, protect neighborhood environment, bars, shopping & galleries & luncheonette
� Downtown core: Opera/playhouse & theatres; Safe/attractive "Walking/shopping" entertainment
� RiverWalk
� Paseo Nuevo mall type
� Living center for homeless fmilies
� Nordstroms
� Extend Beale Library to Excot Center
� Renewed "Old Town" Kern
� Larger roads and redevelop industrial park S of California
� Equity in city maintenance along Union Ave.
� Lakeview area: parks and shopping; Youth centers
� Clean up homeless problem on Golden State area
� Baseball/sports complex - Museum/entertainment complex in Museum grounds area
� Interactive Theme Park Museum near Garces Circle
� Riverwalk thru Central Park
� Eliminate deadend of fwy 58
� Spend $$ on streets and park S of California; enhanced recreation opportunities
� Neighborhood clean-up program in Lakeview area
� Redeveloped East communitite
� Amusement Park on East side

In our Community's Future we wanted and we got:
� An amusement park
� A football stadiu;m & team at CSUB
� Science museum (exploratorium type)
� More emphasis on trees and water to encourage street life
� Return of dept. stores to downtown!
� Air Travel to hubs in the mid-West & East (Dallas, Chicago, etc.)
� Infrastructure improvements prior to development - rather than after
� More public art (sculptures, murals, fountains)
� Clean Air!
� Cultural and civic upgrade
� Beautification of S.E. Bakersfield
� Grocery stores & shopping center in S.E.
� Thoughtful mixed use development
� Open space near city
� Lake Wobegone!
� All the children are above average
� Ice rink
� Krispy Kremes
� Better quality medical care
� Living & health centers for all
� Better planning
� Clubs for under-age children
� Land and water use policies and practices
� Upgrade existing community parks and their facilities
� Water park for youth

In our Community's Future We didn't Want and Didn't Get�
� A downtown with an imposing skyline
� Junky strip malls
� Drugs and gangs-graffiti
� Housing development without planning/sprawl
� Earthquake damage
� Los Angeles
� People ithout "hope"
� Hunger Metropolitan Bakersfield 2010General Planning Area:
� Metro Plan (K.C. Museum area) developed: museum, Discovery Center (Science and Math), agricultural center, oil exhibit, etc.
� Fully developed soccer park near CALM, with new Water Park and CALM zoo developed as a unique destination point - (fully developed educational and recreational site)
� KCSOS - college classes offered during lunch hour
� Mall downtown: career clothing, activities, babysitting, food
� High speed rail - L.A. to S.F. along 99 corridor
� Regional transportation centers scattered throughout metro Bakersfield linking air/rail/downtown
� Do not develop the flood plain section of the river W of Gosford
� Monorail along Rosedale Hwy direct East along College Ave
� New freeway connection - Hwy 58 along Stockdale turning North at Ashe and connecting E. of Callloway with Rosedale
� Center for arts and enternainment downtown
� Water Park on Rosedale - W of 99 E of Mohawk
� Hacienda for children and families (homeless?) in Northeast hillsides
� Motorcross park adjacent to Mesa Marin
� Large industries W near I 5
� Theme Park/resort destination - W side
� West/East Transporation corridor

Common Themes:
� Bariety in transportation
� Beautification
� Cultural Enhancement/entertainment
� Bakersfield as a focal point to stay
� Economy that includes everyone
� Taking care of "everyone"
� Environmnetal issues
� Partnering/collaboration

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