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

[ Return to Phase III Community Input ]