Downtown Construction Business Access

At a glance

• What: construction on 18th and 19th Streets downtown and its effect on business access and parking.
• Where it stands: on August 5 Gonzales asked staff to keep working with affected businesses, and also to review downtown diagonal parking rules (lowering the net space minimum from four spaces to one).

Sources

• Minutes of 2026-08-05: https://docs.bakersfieldcity.us/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=2000875&dbid=0&repo=CITYRECORDS (read from a scanned document)

Log

2026-08-05 - City Council

A public speaker said the construction was hurting downtown businesses. Gonzales asked staff to continue working with affected businesses to ensure access to parking and to their businesses, and to review the diagonal parking policy for the downtown corridor.