Nominated Census Tract Profiles
Main Street Corridor (6071009400)
2048 Barstow General Plan Land Use Designations:
General Industrial
Business Park
General Commercial
Diverse Use
Single Family Residential
Medium Density Residential
Low Density Residential
Public Facilities
Existing Assets:
Historic Route 66
Main Street Murals
Downtown Small Businesses
Historic Harvey House
Original Del Taco
Barstow High School
San Bernardino County Superior Court
BNSF Classification yard
Investment Opportunities
Attainable Housing: The General Plan's Diverse Use permits a variety of uses, including High-Density Residential designations (up to 30 du/acre), which make the downtown tract Barstow's highest-density housing location. New single family or multifamily construction would serve essential workers, students, and low-income families.
Route 66 Hospitality and Mixed-Use: Daily workforce traffic from West Barstow employment areas, combined with existing I-15 travelers, creates a larger customer base for hospitality, food service establishments, and adaptive reuse of underperforming Main Street storefronts meeting OZ's substantial improvement test for existing buildings.
Workforce Training and Services: Barstow Community College's logistics and technical programs, enhanced by partnerships with employers, create demand for student housing, accessible retail, and support services with proximity to the campus.
Transport, Logistics, and Housing: General Industrial and Business Park Land Uses provides opportunities for high-quality employment in sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, and logistics, creating demand for a skilled workforce, and attainable housing options serving essential workers, students and low-income families.
2048 General Plan Land Use Policy Alignment
• Policy LU 2.1, Balanced Mix of Land Uses - Plan for and maintain a balanced mix of high-quality land uses to ensure a range of residential options, fiscal sustainability, and convenient access to shops, restaurants, services, and well-paid jobs.
• Policy LU 3.1, Route 66 Main Street - Enhance the visibility and tourism value of Barstow’s Route 66 Main Street in the downtown, with a focus on the promotion of cultural and historic resources. • Policy LU 3.2, Downtown Design and Land Use - Promote building and site designs that facilitate a walkable, experience-oriented atmosphere in the downtown. Encourage a mix of land uses that provide the opportunity to live, work, shop, and eat during the day and/or night.
Central Barstow (06071009502)
2048 Barstow General Plan Land Use Designations:
General Commercial
Diverse Use
Single Family Residential
Medium Density Residential
Public Facilities
Parks & Resource/Land Management
Existing Assets:
Government Facilities:
City Hall,
Barstow Police Department
Barstow Fire Protection District
City Parks and Recreation Amenities
Dana Park
Foglesong Park & Henderson Pool
H Street Soccer Fields
Cora Harper Fitness Center
Barstow Community Hospital
Education
Barstow Unified School District
Henderson Elementary School
Barstow STEM Academy
Barstow Fine Arts Academy
Investment Opportunities
Existing Residential, Schools, and Government Facilities provide opportunities for investment in retail and restaurants.
Adaptive Reuse and Revitalization of existing commercial buildings and vacant store fronts along west Main Street allowing for new investments in retail, office, and hospitality.
Housing: Investment for infill housing of vacant or underutilized parcels. Attracting essential workers, students, and families into the city core.
Healthcare: The tract includes existing medical and healthcare facilities and services. Increased daytime workforce population from the BIG project as well as subsequent investments will increase demand for healthcare services and specialty care. OZ 2.0 designation provides a strong tool for expanding existing services and attract additional high value medical/healthcare investments into nearby vacant parcels and underutilized facilities.
2048 General Plan Land Use Policy Alignment
• Policy LU 2.1, Balanced Mix of Land Uses - Plan for and maintain a balanced mix of high-quality land uses to ensure a range of residential options, fiscal sustainability, and convenient access to shops, restaurants, services, and well-paid jobs.
• Policy LU 2.4, Medical Professionals and Services - Facilitate housing and employment growth in order to expand the local service population that can attract and support a variety of high-quality medical professionals and services.
• Policy LU 4.3, Public Amenities and Facilities - Protect and improve public parks, trails, open space areas, public plazas, historical assets, and public facilities to define and enhance the City’s quality of life.
Barstow Interchange (6071009501)
2048 Barstow General Plan Land Use Designations:
General Commercial
Diverse Use
Single Family Residential
Medium Density Residential
Public Facilities
Parks & Resource/Land Management
Existing Assets:
Interchange of I-15, 1-40, and Historic Route 66
Visitor Oriented Retail and Hospitality Amenities
Barstow Station
Multiple Hotel and Motel Franchises
Quick Serve Restaurants (QSRs)
Fast Casual Restaurants
Government Facilities:
Jeff L. Eason Sr, Senior Citizens Center
City Parks and Recreation Amenities
Lillian Park
Education
Cameron Elementary School
Investment Opportunities
Attainable Housing: Both vacant land and existing neighborhoods with capacity for growth would allow for additions of both single family and multifamily housing serving the growing population to include existing and future essential workers, students, and low-income families.
I-15 Corridor Commercial: Freeway-adjacent parcels are well-suited for hospitality, fuel, quick-service food, and logistics-support commercial uses serving BIG's operating population all qualifying as OZ original-use investment in new construction.
Healthcare and Professional Services: General Plan Policy LU-2.4 prioritizes healthcare growth in Barstow; BIG's expanding workforce population enlarges the patient and customer base for outpatient healthcare and professional services investment in this tract. 2048 General Plan Land Use Policy Alignment
• Policy LU 2.1, Balanced Mix of Land Uses - Plan for and maintain a balanced mix of high-quality land uses to ensure a range of residential options, fiscal sustainability, and convenient access to shops, restaurants, services, and well-paid jobs.
• Policy LU 2.4, Medical Professionals and Services - Facilitate housing and employment growth in order to expand the local service population that can attract and support a variety of high-quality medical professionals and services.
Tract 06071012002 — East Barstow/MCLB
2048 Barstow General Plan Land Use Designations:
General Commercial
Diverse Use
Single Family Residential
Medium Density Residential
High Density Residential
Open Space
Public Facilities
Existing Assets:
Marine Corps Logistics Base – Nebo Center
Montara Elementary School
Walmart Shopping Center
Quick Serve Restaurants (QSRs)
Motel Franchise
Donald Stringham Park
Investment Opportunities
Attainable Housing: This tract includes a vast amount of existing housing within city limits, with expanses of vacant land ranging from single family to high density residential, supporting and permitting various types of OZ-eligible housing development.
Defense-BIG Logistics Cluster: The convergence of MCLB Barstow's defense logistics demand and BIG's intermodal platform creates a unique environment for defense logistics businesses, maintenance and repair operators, and government contractors. Commercial and Diverse Use zoned parcels in this tract support OZ-eligible development.
Neighborhood-Serving Retail and Services: The combined BIG and MCLB workforce population creates sustained demand for grocery, healthcare, childcare, and food-and-beverage services currently undersupplied in this part of Barstow.
2048 General Plan Land Use Policy Alignment
• Policy LU 1.3, Military Coordination on Land Use and Operations - Coordinate with Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow to ensure compatible land uses in areas where military operations could affect public health and safety, or where civilian activities could have an impact on current or future military operations.
• Policy LU 2.1, Balanced Mix of Land Uses - Plan for and maintain a balanced mix of high-quality land uses to ensure a range of residential options, fiscal sustainability, and convenient access to shops, restaurants, services, and well-paid jobs.