Illegal Dumping on Planz Road

At a glance

• What: large-scale illegal dumping near Planz Road and Martin Luther King Boulevard and Hale Street, and the cost of cleanup.
• Where it stands: on August 5 Arias thanked staff for their help and asked for an agenda item on contingency funds to abate the dumping; a related request would allow recycled Class 2 base in affordable housing projects.

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

Arias thanked staff for responding to the dumping at Planz Road and Martin Luther King Boulevard, asked staff to bring an item on allocating contingency funds to mitigate and abate dumping at Planz Road and Hale Street at the next meeting, and separately asked staff to review specifications to permit recycled Class 2 base instead of virgin material to cut costs for affordable housing.