CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL JOINT MEETING
WITH PLANNING COMMISSION
October 19, 2022 – 3:00 PM
TriCommunitiesConference Room
10500 Civic Center Drive
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
A. CALL TO ORDER
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call: Mayor Michael
Mayor Pro Tem Kennedy
Council Members Hutchison and Scott
Planning Commission Members:
Chair Dopp
Vice Chair Williams
Commissioner Morales
Commissioner Boling
Commissioner Daniels
B. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
This is the time and place for the general public to address the City Council and Planning Commission on any item listed on the agenda. State law prohibits the City Council from addressing any issue not previously included on the Agenda. The City Council and Planning Commission may receive testimony and set the matter for a subsequent meeting. Comments are to be limited to five minutes per individual or less, as deemed necessary by the Mayor, depending upon the number of individuals desiring to speak.
C. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
C1. Presentation of Development and Construction Now and In the Future.
D. ADJOURNMENT
CERTIFICATION
I, Linda A. Troyan, MMC, City Clerk Services Director of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, or my designee, hereby certify under penalty of perjury that a true, accurate copy of the foregoing agenda was posted on at least twentyfour (24) hours prior to the meeting per Government Code 54954.2 at City Hall: 10500 Civic Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, California; and on the City's website.
LINDA A. TROYAN, MMC
CITY CLERK SERVICES DIRECTOR
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CITY COUNCIL VISION STATEMENT
“Our Vision is to build on our success as a world class community, to create an equitable, sustainable, and vibrant city, rich in opportunity for all to thrive.”
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DATE: October 19, 2022
TO: Mayor, Members of the City Council, and Members of the Planning Commission FROM: John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Matthew R. Burris, AICP, LEED AP, Deputy City Manager – Community Development
SUBJECT:Development and Construction Now and In The Future.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council and Planning Commission receive a presentation from Community Development staff on evolving development and construction trends.
BACKGROUND:
Rancho Cucamonga has long been known as the “City with a Plan.” Ensuring appropriate development and development that occurred in synchronization with the provision of appropriate infrastructure to support that development, was a catalyst for incorporation in 1977. More than four decades later, these values remain of critical importance to the community and the City. The recent adoption of Plan RC in 2021 incorporates these critical planning fundamentals.
As a desirable place to live or work, Rancho Cucamonga has and continues to attract high levels of interest from potential new residents and business. This demand to be in Rancho Cucamonga drives innovation on the development side. As needs, tastes, and expectations change, the City finds that new development approaches which previously might have been out of reach, are often initiated in Rancho Cucamonga before such approaches become more commonplace in surrounding cities. The new General Plan, adopted in December 2021, recognized that community and market preferences have been expanding and changing; Plan RC accounts for this and charts a path forward into a new suburban/urban future with greater diversification of the City’s built environment.
ANALYSIS:
Plan RC documents three core community values, Health, Equity, and Stewardship. Additionally, the Plan identifies five Big Ideas that should guide all future development in the City:
1. Design for People First
2. Provide Connectivity and Accessibility
3. Create Destinations
4. Establish Rancho Cucamonga as the Cultural and Economic Hub of the Inland Empire
5. Address Environmental Justice
When considering these core values and big ideas in concert with market projections and State requirements for housing planning, the community arrived at a land use strategy that focuses most new development on a few key corridors and centers in the city. This allows for some more intense urban nodes while preserving
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the quality and character of the established suburban neighborhoods which have been the cornerstone of Rancho Cucamonga for many decades. The land use plan, building types, and planned transportation network have been carefully calibrated to address the core values, deliver the Big Ideas, and provide for the next generation of a well-planned city, thereby carrying forward the same reasons why the City originally incorporated nearly 50 years ago.
Since the adoption of the General Plan late in 2021, the Community Development departments have started receiving numerous proposals for new building types and building construction methods that are commonplace in more urban areas of Southern California, but which do not yet exist within the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Additionally, construction technology has begun evolving rapidly in the last 3 years and the Community Development departments are anticipating an even greater variety of new construction approaches and building types in the 18-36 months.
The goal of this presentation and discussion is to inform our Elected Officials and interested community members about construction types and methods that have been used traditionally, how they are evolving in application, and what are the upcoming trending changes in the construction industry that we see coming to help meet local, state, and national goals related to greenhouse gas reduction. This presentation will also discuss the direction the community is headed with regards to corridors and areas of increased density in developments, taller buildings, vertical mixed-use buildings, and the integration of parking under and within the footprint of the building. Finally, staff will also revisit the General Plan land use-transportation strategy to provide an explanation of how the City’s transportation network will grow and evolve to manage anticipated growth within the boundaries of changes in state law.