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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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