A plot of land in southwest Bakersfield is a hot topic for residents. Wearing matching yellow T-shirts, dozens of residents from the River Oaks neighborhood gathered Thursday night to voice their opposition to plans by Black Ops real estate. Black Ops plans to build a 100-unit condominium complex at the corner of River Run Boulevard and Elkhorn Creek Lane.
Free, nutritious meals will be served this summer to qualifying Kern County children through a federally funded program.
The Bakersfield City School District will honor its 2013 Hall of Fame inductees Friday night.
"It really came down to the folks in this neighborhood not wanting this project to go forward," Planning Commission member Elliott Kirschenmann said. "We didn't have one neighbor that was in support of this project, and to me, that was really the tipping point."
The first-reading ordinance was unanimously passed, and a process is now underway to ban medical marijuana shops in the city. City attorney Ginny Gennaro said enforcing the proposed ban would be complaint-driven, and that police would not go around boarding up businesses and arresting people.
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