{"id":39988,"date":"2025-11-06T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:48:11","slug":"citys-soar-report-now-open-for-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39988\/","title":{"rendered":"City&#8217;s SOAR report now open for public comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The city&#8217;s Sustainable Opportunities Advancing Resilience (SOAR) report is now available for public review and comment.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE FULL STORY BELOW \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>City&#8217;s SOAR report now open for public comment<\/p>\n<p>The plan aims to identify opportunities for cleaner air, better public health, reduced energy costs, and new job opportunities for residents.<\/p>\n<p>The city launched the effort in January 2025 and held multiple community workshops and focus groups between February and October before releasing the draft SOAR Bakersfield report for public review.<\/p>\n<p>The city says they are developing the plan with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant program.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to review the draft plan and provide your feedback, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ascent.mysocialpinpoint.com\/soar-bakersfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The city&#8217;s Sustainable Opportunities Advancing Resilience (SOAR) report is now available for public review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,27281,27282,27283,27284,27285,27286,162,27279,27280],"class_list":["post-39988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-city-development","tag-cleaner-air","tag-community-feedback","tag-energy-costs","tag-environmental-planning","tag-job-opportunities","tag-kern-county-news","tag-soar","tag-soar-bakersfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}