Agenda packet — Rancho Cucamonga City Council, December 20, 2023 (part 2 of 5)

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ANALYSIS:

The subject project has been completed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications and to the satisfaction of the Public Works Services Director.

The net increase in the total cost of the project is a result of the removal and replacement of additional tree root damaged sections of concrete. After start of work, it was discovered that tree roots had damaged / uplifted adjacent sections of sidewalk, curb and gutter and/or drive approaches. For safety reasons, these adjacent sections were also removed and replaced.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Adequate funds were included in the Fiscal Year 2022/2023 adopted budget for this project in account numbers 1001318-5650 (Street Maintenance), 1177303-5650 (Measure I), 1131303- 5300 (LMD 2) and 1134303-5300 (LMD 4R).

COUNCIL MISSION / VISION / VALUE(S) ADDRESSED:

By removing and replacing damaged sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and drive approaches, the concrete Rehabilitation Project FY 22-23 provides continuous improvement and a nurturing and high quality of life for all.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1 – Notice of Completion
RECORDING REQUESTED BY:

CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
P. O. Box 807
Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730
WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:

CITY CLERK

CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
P. O. Box 807
Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730
Exempt from recording fees pursuant to Govt. Code Sec. 27383

NOTICE OF COMPLETION
N
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

1. The under
signed is an owner of an interest or estate in the hereinafter described real property, the nature of which interest or estate is:

A
ll public rights-of-way within the boundaries of Contract No. 2023-098

2. The f
ull name and address of the undersigned owner is: CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, P. O. BOX 807, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA 91730.

3. O
n December 20, 202 3, there was completed in the hereinafter described real property the work of improvement set forth in the contract documents for:

C
oncrete Rehabilitation Project FY 22-23
Removal and replacement of tree root damaged sidewalks, curb and gutter, and drive approaches plus related work

4. The nam
e of the original contractor for the work of improvement as a whole was:

CT&T Concrete Paving, Inc.

5. The r
eal property referred to herein is situated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, County of San Bernardino, California, and is described as follows:

Multiple neighborhoods, parks and paseo located within the northwest quadrant of the City Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
No APN’s because repair/replacement work was done within public right-of-way.

CI
TY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, a
Municipal Corporation, Owner
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the
foregoing is true and correct.

DATE
Executed in the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California
Ray Casey
Interim Public Works Services Director
ATTACHMENT 1
DATE:December 20, 2023
TO:Mayor and Members of the City Council
President and Members of the Board of Directors
FROM:John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Julie A. Sowles, Deputy City Manager-Civic and Cultural Services Ruth Cain, CPPB, Procurement Manager
SUBJECT: Consideration to Adopt City Resolution No. 2023-124 and Fire Board Resolution No. FD 2023-040 to Update Staff Signature Authority Limits. (RESOLUTION NO. 2023-124 AND RESOLUTION NO. FD 2023-040) (CITY/FIRE)
RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends the City Council and Fire Board adopt City Resolution No. 2023-124 and Fire Board Resolution FD 2023-040 to update staff signature authority limits.

BACKGROUND:

In 1987, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 328 establishing purchasing policies, procedures, and authority limits for the City of Rancho Cucamonga. On November 11, 2006, the City Council approved Resolution 87-602B updating staff signature authority limits. The update established the City Manager’s signature authority limit as $100,000, except for Public Works Contracts where his/her authority level is $175,000 in accordance with the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act.

Recent negative economic effects related to a rapid rise in inflation including lower purchasing power, higher interest rates, and slower economic growth combined with compromised supply chains created during the COVID-19 pandemic, have resulted in constraints to the procurement process. These constraints are impeding staff’s ability to efficiently procure goods and oftentimes impact the City’s ability to provide services in a timely manner.

Updating the signature authority limits to align with today’s prices will allow staff to more efficiently move through the procurement workflow expediting the City’s ability to obtain goods or services while continuing to conduct the procurement process in a fair and equitable manner, mitigating risk, and gaining the best value for the City.

ANALYSIS:

Revising signature authority limits will better position the City to efficiently procure goods and services by decreasing the number of purchases requiring signatures from City Council or the City Manager. Increased authority limits will allow the City to return to pre-COVID purchasing practices by realigning purchasing powers with the current price of goods, moving the procurement of day-to-day goods and services back into staff workflows and away from City Council procurement workflows. City staff procurement workflows are more efficient as they occur during regular business days rather than being limited to City Council’s twice a month meeting schedule.

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. Using the Bureau’s CPI Inflation Calculator staff determined that the purchasing power of $100,000 in November of 2006 equates to $152,750 today. Staff recommends updating the City Manager’s signature limit from $100,000 to $150,000 to mitigate the erosion of purchasing power that has occurred over the past 17 years.

The following table details the position titles, current signature limits, and proposed revised signature limits.

Title Current - Up to limit Proposed - Up to limit City Manager
$100,000
*Except Public Works Contracts,
where signature authority will be
$175,000 in accordance with the
California Uniform Public
Construction Cost Accounting
Act.
$150,000
*Except Public Works Contracts,
where signature authority will be
$175,000 in accordance with the
California Uniform Public
Construction Cost Accounting
Act.

Assistant City Manager $75,000 $110,000
Deputy City Manager $75,000 $95,000
Directors $50,000 $75,000
In addition, rather than assigning other delegates lower levels of signature authority by resolution, the City Manager will have the discretion to designate which staff members have what limits below his/her authority. Any City Manager delegated limits will be documented and reviewed and updated on a regular basis, as needed. The continuation of this practice will allow signature authorities to be easily updated as titles and positions change in the organization, while maintaining the same level of expenditure control.

FISCAL IMPACT:

None.

COUNCIL MISSION / VISION / GOAL(S) ADDRESSED:

Approving the proposed signature authority limits supports the City Council’s Core Values of the relentless pursuit of improvement and intentionally embracing and anticipating our future.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1 – City Resolution
Attachment 2 – Fire Board Resolution
Resolution No. 2023- XXX - Page 1 of 2
RESOLUTION NO. 2023-XXX

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO

CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, REPEALING ALL PREVIOUS APPLICABLE

SIGNING AUTHORITY LIMITS AND ESTABLISHING UPDATED AUTHORITY

LIMITS FOR CITY PERSONNEL
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the authority provided by Health and Safety Code Section 33125, the City of Rancho Cucamonga Procurement System, as set forth in Chapter 3.08 of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code, hereby designated and incorporated by reference herein, as the procurement system applicable to the City of Rancho Cucamonga, subject to the following modifications:

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, hereby resolves:

Section 1. This resolution supersedes all previous applicable resolutions.

Section 2. For the purpose of establishing Staff Signature Authority Limits, this Board does hereby adopt those monetary limits attached hereto, marked as Exhibit A, and incorporated herein by this reference.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this ______ day of ______ 2023.

ATTACHMENT 1
Resolution No. 2023- XXX - Page 2 of 2
Exhibit A

PROCUREMENT SIGNING AUTHORITY LIMITS
Staff Signing Authority Limits
Title Current - Up to limit Proposed - Up to limit
City Manager
$100,000
*Except Public Works Contracts,
where signature authority will be
$175,000 in accordance with the
California Uniform Public
Construction Cost Accounting Act.
$150,000
*Except Public Works Contracts,
where signature authority will be
$175,000 in accordance with the
California Uniform Public
Construction Cost Accounting Act.

Resolution No. FD 2023-XXX - Page 1 of 2
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RESOLUTION NO. FD 2023-XXX

A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RANCHO

CUCAMONGA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, COUNTY OF SAN

BERNARDINO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, REPEALING ALL PREVIOUS

APPLICABLE SIGNING AUTHORITY LIMITS AND ESTABLISHING UPDATED

AUTHORITY LIMITS FOR CITY PERSONNEL
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the authority provided by Health and Safety Code Section 33125, the City of Rancho Cucamonga Procurement System, as set forth in Chapter 3.08 of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code, hereby designated and incorporated by reference herein, as the procurement system applicable to the City of Rancho Cucamonga, subject to the following modifications:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District hereby resolves:

Section 1. This resolution supersedes all previous applicable resolutions.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this ______ day of ______ 2023.

ATTACHMENT 2
Resolution No. FD 2023-XXX - Page 2 of 2
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Exhibit A

DATE:December 20, 2023
TO:President and Members of the Board of Directors
FROM:John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Noah Daniels, Finance Director
Tamara L. Oatman, Finance Director
SUBJECT: Consideration of a Resolution Delegating Authority to Request Disbursements from the CalPERS California Employers' Retiree Benefit Trust (CERBT) for the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District's Retiree Healthcare Plan. (RESOLUTION NO. FD 2023-041) (FIRE) RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends the Fire Board of the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District adopt the attached Resolution delegating authority to request disbursements from the CalPERS California Employers' Retiree Benefit Trust (CERBT) for the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District's retiree healthcare plan.

BACKGROUND:

In 1994, the Fire District created a two-tier medical insurance premium benefit for employees of the District. In summary, the District's Retiree Healthcare Plan covers all medical premiums for Tier 1 employees (those hired before November 17, 1994), while for Tier 2 employees (hired on or after this date), it contributes only the minimum required by the Public Employees' Medical & Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA).

GASB Statement No. 75, changed the standards for reporting Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) in state and local government financial statements by mandating accrual-based accounting for these post-retirment benefits, replacing the previous pay-as-you-go method. In relation to GASB Statement No. 75, both tiers of benefits are reported as liabilities, which are offset by the funds that the District has been contributing to an irrevocable trust, specifically the CalPERS' Employers' Retiree Benefit Trust Program. The funds in the CERBT are used to pay for the post-retirment benefits. The District's approach is to fully fund the benefits, including the Actuarially Determined Contributions (ADC) and consistent pre-funding efforts, which has led to a net OPEB asset in recent financial statements.

The annual task of requesting trust disbursements for retiree medical expenses is overseen by the Finance Director and Senior Accountant, ensuring proper management and compliance with the GASB 75 requirements.

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ANALYSIS:

When the District established the irrevocable trust with the CERBT, several documents were required to be completed. One of these documents was the Delegation of Authority to Request Disbursement, which was accomplished via Resolution No. FD 08-020. The positions included in the Resolution were the Finance Director and the Senior Accountant. Since that time, the Senior Accountant has been promoted to the position of Principal Accountant. In order to update the required documents with CERBT to reflect this change, the District must adopt a new resolution with the revised titles. The attached Resolution will update the delegation of authority to the positions of Finance Director, Deputy Director of Finance, Finance Manager, Principal Accountant, and Senior Accountant. The recommended positions include positions that are currently vacant or unfilled to prevent additional administrative work in the future.

FISCAL IMPACT:

None.

COUNCIL MISSION / VISION / GOAL(S) ADDRESSED:

This item addresses the City Council's Core Values of intentionally embracing and anticipating our future.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1 - Resolution No. FD 2023-041
ATTACHMENT 1
RESOLUTION NO. FD 2023-XXX

A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RANCHO

CUCAMONGA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, RANCHO CUCAMONGA,

CALIFORNIA, DELEGATING AUTHORITY TO REQUEST DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE CALPERS CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS’ RETIREE BENEFIT TRUST (CERBT) FOR THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT’S

RETIREE HEALTHCARE PLAN
WHEREAS, the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District implemented Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 45 for Fiscal Year 2008/09; and WHEREAS, the District must deposit all or a portion of its Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability (UAAL) into an irrevocable trust in order to reduce or eliminate the UAAL that is required to be disclosed in the District’s audited financial statements beginning in Fiscal Year 2008/09; and WHEREAS, the District selected the CalPERS California Employers’ Retiree Benefit Trust (CERBT) Program as the trustee for the District’s Retiree Healthcare Plan;

NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, HEREBY RESOLVES, as follows:

SECTION 1: The Board delegates to the incumbents in the positions of FINANCE DIRECTOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, FINANCE MANAGER, PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT, and SENIOR ACCOUNTANT authority to request on behalf of the District disbursements from the Other Post Employment Prefunding Plan and to certify as to the purpose for which the disbursed funds will be used.

SECTION 2: The Board hereby replaces and supersedes all prior delegations and rescinds Resolution No. FD 08-020.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 20th day of December, 2023.

DATE: December 20, 2023
TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Matt Marquez, Director of Planning and Economic Development Jennifer Nakamura, Deputy Director of Planning
SUBJECT: Consideration of Second Reading and Adoption of the Following:

ORDINANCE NO. 1022

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 17 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA

MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING NON-STOREFRONT MEDICAL

CANNABIS RETAIL AS A USE PERMITTED WITH A MINOR USE

PERMIT FOR PROPERTIES LOCATED IN PORTIONS OF THE NEO-

INDUSTRIAL (NI) AND INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT (IE) ZONES,
AMENDING CHAPTER 8.52 OF TITLE 8 OF THE RANCHO

CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE EXCEPTING CERTAIN NON-

STOREFRONT MEDICAL CANNABIS RETAIL FROM THE

PROHIBITION ON COMMERCIAL CANNABIS ACTIVITY, ADDING
CHAPTER 5.20 TO TITLE 5 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA

MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING REGULATORY AND

OPERATIONAL RESTRICTIONS FOR SUCH A NON-STOREFRONT

MEDICAL CANNABIS RETAILER, AND MAKING A DETERMINATION

OF EXEMPTION FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL

QUALITY ACT
RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends that the City Council waive full reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1022.

BACKGROUND:

The introduction and first reading of the above-entitled Ordinances was conducted at the Regular Council meeting of December 6, 2023. Votes at first reading: AYES: Kennedy, Hutchison, Scott, Stickler, Michael.

ANALYSIS:

Please refer to the December 6, 2023 City Council staff report.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Please refer to the December 6, 2023 City Council staff report.

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COUNCIL MISSION / VISION / VALUE(S) ADDRESSED:

Please refer to the December 6, 2023 City Council staff report.

ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1 - Ordinance No. 1022
Ordinance 1022 Page 1 of 16
ORDINANCE NO. 1022

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 17 OF THE RANCHO

CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING NON -

STOREFRONT MEDICAL CANNABIS RETAIL AS A USE

PERMITTED WITH A MINOR USE PERMIT FOR PROPERTIES

LOCATED IN PORTIONS OF THE NEO- INDUSTRIAL (NI) AND

INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT (IE) ZONES , AMENDING
CHAPTER 8.52 OF TITLE 8 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA

MUNICIPAL CODE EXCEPTING CERTAIN NON-STOREFRONT

MEDICAL CANNABIS RETAIL FROM THE PROHIBITION ON
COMMERCIAL CANNABIS ACTIVITY, ADDING CHAPTER 5.20
TO TITLE 5 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE

ESTABLISHING REGULATORY AND OPERATIONAL

RESTRICTIONS FOR SUCH A NON-STOREFRONT MEDICAL

CANNABIS RETAILER, AND MAKING A DETERMINATION OF

EXEMPTION FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL

QUALITY ACT
I. Recitals.

A. Chapters 8.52 and 17.94 and Table 17.30.030-1 of the City of Rancho Cucamonga (“City”) Municipal Code (“RCMC”) currently prohibit all commercial cannabis acti vity in the City, with limited exceptions to allow cannabis activity that the City is required to permit under state law.

B. On October 9, 2015, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 243, Assembly Bill 266, and Senate Bill 643 into law, which collectively were known as the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (hereinafter “MCRSA”). The MCRSA established a State regulatory and licensing scheme for commercial medical cannabis businesses.

C. On November 8, 2016, California voters approved the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (“AUMA”). The AUMA made it lawful under State and local law for persons 21 years of age or older to possess and cultivate limited quantities of cannabis for personal use. The AUMA also established a State regulatory and licensing scheme for commercial adult-use cannabis businesses.

D. On June 27, 2017, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 94, which repealed the MCRSA, included certain provisions of the MCRSA in the licensing provisions of the AUMA, and created a single regulatory scheme for both medicinal and adult-use cannabis known as the Medicinal and Adult -Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”). The MAUCRSA retains the provisions in the MCRSA and the AUMA that granted local jurisdictions control over whether cannabis businesses could operate in a particular jurisdiction. Specifically, California Business and Professions Code Section 26200 provides that the MAUCRSA shall not be interpreted to supersede or limit authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate businesses licensed under the MAUCRSA including, but not limited to, local zoning and land use requirements, business license requirements, and requirements related Ordinance 1022 Page 2 of 16
to reducing exposure to secondhand smoke, or to completely prohibit the establishment or operation of one or more businesses licensed by the State, within that local jurisdiction.

E. On September 18, 2022, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 1186 (“SB 1186”), which enacted Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act. SB 1186 provides that a city cannot adopt or enforce regulations that prohibit the “retail sale by delivery” of medi cinal cannabis. This includes any regulation that has the effect of prohibiting patients within the city or their caregivers from purchasing, by delivery, sufficient medicinal cannabis to meet their demands in a timely and readily accessible manner. Examples of prohibited regulations include prohibiting retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis within the jurisdiction being conducted by a licensed non-storefront retailer.

F. T he City Council desires to establish reasonable zoning and land use regulations regarding the operation of non-storefront medical cannabis retailers that are intended to address the potential negative impacts of cannabis businesses on the community.

II. Findings.

The City Council finds that adoption of this Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15061(b)(3). The activity is not subject to CEQA because it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment; and the activity is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects, which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. The businesses authorized under these proposed Development Code and Municipal Code text amendments are similar to already existing permitted general uses such as retail, with the only difference being the product sold or consumed (i.e., cannabis). This Ordinance does not change the zoning for any properties, meaning that they do not create negative environmental impacts or result in physical changes to the environment. Non-storefront medical cannabis retailers developed pursuant to this O rdinance would be independently reviewed and evaluated pursuant to CEQA. City staff shall cause a Notice of Exemption to be filed as authorized by CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines.

III. Ordinance.

The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga does ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. The above recitals and findings are all true and correct and incorporated into this Ordinance by this reference.

SECTION 2. Chapter 5.20 (Non-Storefront Medical Cannabis Retail) is hereby added to Title 5 (Business Taxes, Licenses and Regulations) to read as set forth below:
“Chapter 5.20 NON-STOREFRONT MEDICAL CANNABIS RETAIL

5.20.010 Purpose.

This chapter is intended to provide for the orderly regulation of non -storefront medical cannabis retail establishments in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare.

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5.20.020 Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed as set out in this section, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning was intended:

Non-storefront medical cannabis retail means a retailer that sells medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products, as those terms are defined in Business and Professions Code § 26001(ak)(1), as may be amended, to customers exclusively through delivery. A non-storefront medical cannabis retail has a permitted premises to store medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis for delivery, but the premises is not open to the public. A non-storefront medical cannabis retailer shall have a State License Type M-Type 9, Non- Storefront Retailer, limited to delivery services of medical cannabis or cannabis products only.

5.20.030 Permit required.

It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation to engage in, conduct or carry on, or to permit to be engaged in, conducted, or carried on, in or upon any premises within the city, the operation of a non -storefront medical cannabis retail establishment without first having obtained a non-storefront medical cannabis retail regulatory permit, issued by the city pursuant to the provisions herein set forth. Said permit shall immediately be surrendered to the planning director upon suspension, revocation, or expiration of said permit. To engage in non-storefront medical cannabis retail activity allowed by this chapter, a person must also obtain all of the following:

A. A minor use permit issued pursuant to section 17.16.120. Any permit that is issued under this chapter shall be void if a minor use permit is not issued by the director pursuant to section 17.16.120 of this code, within a year of issuance of the permit. A minor use permit granted pursuant to this chapter and section 17.16.120 shall not be transferable to another person or entity, and any attempted transfer shall be void.

B. A business registration certificate issued pursuant to chapter 5.04; and C. A State license.

5.20.040 Permit application.

A. To protect public health and safety, and to further ensure that non -storefront medical cannabis retail activity permitted by this chapter is in the public interest, the city hereby establishes procedures for determining the qualifications of persons allowed to obtain a permit.

B. An owner of a non- storefront medical cannabis retail business may apply for a permit, on behalf of a non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, by filing an application with the city manager or their designee. A non-storefront medical cannabis retail business may only submit one (1) application. If a non-storefront medical cannabis retail business has multiple owners, only one (1) owner may submit an application on behalf of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, but all owners must be identified in the application.

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C. No person shall k nowingly make a false statement of fact or knowingly omit any information that is required in the permit application.

D. Applications shall not be accepted or processed unless the applicant pays the nonrefundable application fee in the amount to be establi shed by resolution of the city council.

E. The application shall be on a form approved by the city manager and shall include, without limitation, the following:

1. A description of the statutory entity or business form that will serve as the legal structure for the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business; a copy of its formation and organizing documents, including, but not limited to, articles of incorporation, certificate of amendment, statement of information, articles of association, bylaws, partnership agreement, operating agreement, and ficti tious business name statement; and the name and address of its agent for purposes of service of process;

2. A list of every fictitious business name the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business is operating under;

3. The legal name of the applicant;

4. If applicable, the business trade name (“DBA”) of the non- storefront medical cannabis retail business;

5. A list of the state licenses issued by any California licensing authority to the applicant, or any other owner of the non- storefront medical cannabis retail business, including the date the license was issued, the date the license will terminate and the licensing authority that issued the license;

6. Whether the applicant, or any owners of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, have been denied a state license or have had a state license suspended or revoked by any licensing authority. The applicant shall identify the type of state license applied for, the name of the licensing authority that denied the application, and the date of denial;

7. The non-storefront medical cannabis retail business’ employer identification number;

8. The physical address of any other premises owned or operated by the applicant involved in commercial cannabis activity operations, or any other owner of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, and a brief summary of the business operations at each premises;

9. A complete list of every owner of, or person with a financial interest in, the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business. Each individual named on this list shall submit the following information:
a. Their full name;
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b. Their title within the applicant entity, if applicable; c. Their date of birth and place of birth;
d. Their social security number or individual taxpayer identi fication number;
e. Their mailing address;
f. Their home, business, or mobile telephone number and email address;
g. Their current employer;
h. Their percentage of ownership interest held in the applicant entity, or other financial interest held in the applicant entity; i. Whether the individual has an ownership or a financial interest in any other non- storefront medical cannabis retail business licensed by a state licensing authority;
j. A copy of the individual ’s government -issued identification that includes the name, date of birth, physical description and picture of the owner or person with a financial interest in the non- storefront medical cannabis retail business;
k. If applicable, a copy of any certificate of rehabilitation issued under Penal Code § 4852.01 or dismissal issued pursuant to Penal Code § 1203.4 or 1203.41;
l. If applicable, a detailed description of any suspension or revocation of a cannabis related license or sanctions for unlicensed or unlawful cannabis activity by a state or local governmental agency against the applicant, or any of its owners or persons with a financial interest in the cannabis business; and
m. Pursuant to California Penal Code §§ 11105(b)(11) and 13300(b)(11), which authorize city authorities to access state and local summary criminal history information for employment, licensing, or certification purposes, and authorize access to federal level criminal history information by transmitting fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice to be transmitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, every owner or person with a financial interest in the cannabis business must submit fingerprints and other information deemed necessary by the police chief, or his or her designee(s), for a background check by the police department. A fee for the cost of the background investigation, which shall be the actual cost to the city to conduct the background investigation as it deems necessary and appropriate, including city staff time and costs, shall be paid at the time the person submits for the background check.

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10. The proposed hours of operation;

11. Authorization and consent for city staff and the p olice chief to seek verification of the information contained within the application;

12. A safety and security plan;

13. Attestation to the following statement: Under penalty of perjury, I hereby declare that the information contained within and submitted with the application is complete, true , and accurate. I understand that a misrepresentation of fact, whether intentional or not, is cause for rejection of this application, denial of the permit, or revocation of a permit issued;

14. Evidence that the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business will be compliant with the location restrictions set forth in Business and Professions Code § 26054(b) and the zoning restrictions set forth in section 17.102.080 of this code;

15. If the applicant is the landowner upon which the premises is located, a copy of the title or deed to the property;

16. If the applicant is leasing the premises where the non- storefront medical cannabis retail business will be conducted, a written, notarized statement from the owner of the property where the non -storefront medical cannabis retail business will operate evidencing unqualified consent to the applicant operating a non- storefront medical cannabis retail business on the property. The statement must specify the street address (unless the property is a vacant lot to be developed) and assessor’s parcel number for the premises. The statement shall also contain the name, business address, email address and telephone number of the property owner(s) (whether business entity or individual);

17. A premises diagram; and

18. Proof of a state license.

G. Nothing in this section is intended to limit the c ity manager’s ability to request additional information the city manager deems necessary or relevant to determining a non- storefront medical cannabis retail business ’ suitability for a permit. An applicant shall provide any additional information requested by the city manager no later than seven (7) days after the request, unless otherwise specified by the city manager.

H. The city manager is hereby authorized to waive any application requirement, as long as the waiver is uniformly applied to all applicants.

5.20.050 Permit expiration and renewal.

A permit that is issued pursuant to this chapter is valid for a term of one (1) year from the date of issuance. Renewal terms shall not exceed one (1) year. A permit shall expire one (1) year following its issuance. All non- storefront medical cannabis a ctivity shall cease upon expiration of the permit unless and until the permit is renewed or a new permit is issued. Issuance of a non -storefront medical cannabis retail regulatory permit does not create a land use entitlement.

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5.20.060 Operational and maintenance standards.

A. Non-storefront, delivery-only medical cannabis retail operations must obtain and maintain a valid minor use permit pursuant to the provisions in section 17.16.120 and comply with all conditions of approval at all times.

B. Medical Cannabis, Delivery Only. Non-storefront, delivery-only medical cannabis retail operations licensed pursuant to this chapter may engage only in the sale and delivery of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products to customers and qualified patients and their caregivers.

C. Fees. All non-storefront, delivery-only medical cannabis retail operations must pay all applicable fees as established by resolution of the city council in order to commence and continue operations.

5.20.070 Inspection.

The city, including the police department shall, from time to time and during any hour in which a non- storefront medical cannabis retailer is open for business, make an administrative inspection of each non-storefront medical cannabis retailer for the purpose of determining compliance with this chapter.

5.20.080 Additional regulations.

In addition to any regulations adopted by the c ity council, the city manager is authorized to establish any additional rules, regulations , and standards governing the issuance, denial, or renewal of non-storefront medical cannabis retail permits, the ongoing operation of non-storefront medical cannabis retail businesses and the city’s oversight, or concerning any other subject determined to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Regulations promulgated by the city manager shall become effective upon date of publication.

5.20.090 Retailer lottery.

A. As set forth in section 17.102.080, there is a limit on the number of non-storefront medical cannabis retailers that can operate in the city. At no point shall the number of non-storefront medical cannabis retailers in the city exceed the number of retailers allowed under section 17.102.080.

B. City staff shall establish and conduct a lottery for determining which non-storefront medical cannabis retailer will (1) be issued a permit and (2) be eligible to apply for a minor use permit pursuant to the provisions of sections 17.16.120 and 17.102.080 of this code.

C. The city manager is authorized to establish the procedures that will be followed in conducting the lottery, and the steps to be included in a schedule that will be prepared for the receipt and review of permit applications for retailers. The city manager is further authorized to make any necessary changes to the lottery procedures and steps to be included in the schedule as they deem appropriate for its implementation.

5.20.100 Decision on lottery and permit.

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A. The city manager, in consultation with the police chief, shall evaluate all completed non-storefront medical cannabis retailer applications that are submitted by the application deadline and determine whether the applicant can participate in the lottery. The applicant shall be ineligible to participate in the lottery if the city manager determines that one (1) or more of the following conditions exist:

1. The applicant has not paid all fees required for consideration of the application;

2. The application is incomplete, filed late, or is otherwise not respons ive to the requirements of this chapter;

3. The application contains a false or misleading statement or omission of a material fact;

4. The applicant, or any owner or person with a financial interest in the non - storefront medical cannabis retail business, is not at least twenty -one (21) years old;

5. The applicant, or any owner or person with a financial interest in the non - storefront medical cannabis retail business, has been denied a license or other authorization to engage in commercial cannabis activity by a s tate licensing or permitting authority, for any reason other than the fact that the applicant was not selected for a limited number of licenses or permits, but would have otherwise qualified to obtain the license or permit;

6. The applicant, or any owner or person with a financial interest in the non - storefront medical cannabis retail business, is employed by the police department or the city’s community development department;

7. The applicant, or any owners or persons with a financial interest in the non- storefront medical cannabis retailer, has been convicted of:
a. A serious or violent felony conviction, as specified in Penal Code § 667.5(c) or § 1192.7(c);
b. A felony conviction involving fraud, deceit, or embezzlement; c. A felony conviction for hiring, employing, or using a minor in transporting, carrying, selling, giving away, preparing for sale, or peddling, any controlled substance to a minor; or selling, offering to sell, furnishing, offering to furnish, administering, or giving any controlled substance to a minor;

8. A felony conviction for drug trafficking with enhancements pursuant to Health and Safety Code §§ 11370.4 or 11379.8;

9. The applicant, or any owners or persons with a financial interest in the non- storefront medical cannabis retailer, has had a judgment entered against them for unpermitted commercial cannabis activity in violation of any city zoning ordinance enacted under zoning law;
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10. The operation of the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer, as described in its application, would fail to comply with any provision of this code, or any state law or regulation; and/or

11. Operation of the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer in the manner proposed poses a threat to the public health, safety or welfare, or violates any provision of this chapter.

B. If none of the above -referenced conditions exist, the city manager, or their designee, shall notify the applicant that the applicant is eligible to participate in the lottery.

If any of the above-referenced conditions exist, the city manager shall notify the applicant that the applicant has been denied the opportunity to participate in the lottery. Any notice of denial shall set forth the reasons of denial and advise the applicant of the right to contest the denial pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 5.20.110.

C. If a non- storefront medical cannabis retailer is selected in the lottery to obtain a permit, the retailer shall have 90 days from the date of the notice to the retailer that they are eligible to obtain a permit to provide documentation to the city manager showing the following:

1. If the applicant is leasing the premises where the non- storefront medical cannabis retail business will be conducted, a copy of the rental or lease agreement shall be provided;

2. A copy of the applicant’s application with the State Department of Cannabis Control to operate a non-storefront medical cannabis retailer in the city;

3. Evidence that the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer will be compliant with the location restrictions set forth in Business and Professions Code § 26054(b) and the zoning restrictions set forth in section 17.102.080 of this code.

Any evidence that was submitted at the time of the application shall be updated to ensure that the retailer is still compliant with this provision; and

4. Background check results for all employees, managers, and agents of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business. Any employee, manager , or agent of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business that has been convicted of a disqualifying crime, shall not be permitted to work for th e non- storefront medical cannabis retail business, without first obtaining a waiver from the city manager, after consultation with the police chief.

D. If the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer fails to provide the information set forth in subsection (C) above within the 90 day period, or does not meet the location or zoning restrictions set forth in section 17.102.080, the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer shall not be issued a permit.

G. The facility approved by the initial permit shall be open for business within six months from the date when both the minor use permit, if applicable, and the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer regulatory permit have been approved unless a different opening date is described in the conditions of approval for the permit or the city manager, for good cause, grants in writing an extension of the opening date prior to opening date.

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5.20.110 Appeals.

A. Lottery appeals. If a non-storefront medical cannabis retailer applicant is denied the opportunity to participate in the lottery due to the applicant ’s failure to submit a complete application by the required deadline, failure to satisfy the criteria for issuance of a permit, or for any othe r reason, the applicant may appeal this decision in writing. The written appeal shall be filed with the city clerk within ten days of the issuance and mailing of the written decision by the city manager on the application accompanied by the appeal fee as adopted by resolution of the c ity council. The appeal shall be conducted in accordance with subsection C. After the deadline to appeal has passed, the decision to deny the non-storefront medical cannabis retailer the opportunity to participate in the lottery shall be deemed final, and may no longer be appealed. In the event an appeal of the city manager’s decision to allow a non -storefront medical cannabis retailer applicant to participate in a lottery is timely filed, the lottery shall not be conduct ed until the appeal is heard and decided.

B. Appeals related to issuance of non-storefront medical cannabis retailer regulatory permit. An applicant that seeks to operate a non-storefront medical cannabis retail business in the city, may appeal the city manager’s decision not to issue the cannabis business a permit in writing pursuant to the provisions of subsection C. The written appeal shall be filed with the city clerk within 15 days of the issuance and mailing of the written decision by the city manager on the permit accompanied by the appeal fee as adopted by resolution of the city council. After the deadline to appeal has passed, the decision to deny the issuance of a permit shall be deemed final, and may no longer be appealed. A non-storefront medical cannabis retailer may only appeal the city manager’s decision to deny the applicant a permit if the non -storefront medical cannabis retailer participated in the lottery.

C. A written request for an appeal under this s ection shall be filed with the city clerk pursuant to the deadlines noted above and all such requests shall contain the following information:

1. The name and address of the applicant;

2. The date of the decision in question;

3. The reasons for the appeal; and

4. The grounds relied upon for relief.

Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be mailed to the applicant, by certified mail, no later than ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. The notice may also designate certain records that the applicant is required to produce at the time of the hearing.

At the hearing as prescribed by this section, the applicant and the city may submit any and all evidence as they believe to be relevant. The city c ouncil may require the presentation of additional evidence from either the applicant or the city, or from both, and may continue the hearing from time to time for the purpose of allowing the presentation of additional evidence. Upon conclusion of the hearing, the city council may, by resolution Ordinance 1022 Page 11 of 16
with findings, approve, reverse, or modify the decision of the city manager and such decision of the city council shall be final.

5.20.120 Limitation on city’s liability.

A. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the city does not assume any liability whatsoever, with respect to approving any permit pursuant to this chapter or the operation of any non-storefront medical cannabis retailer approved under to this chapter.

B. As a condition of approval of a permit as provided in this chapter, the applicant or its legal representative shall do the following:

1. Execute an agreement indemnifying the city from any claims, damages, injuries, or liabilities of any kind associated with the operation of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, issuance of a permit to a non-storefront medical cannabis retail business, or the prosecution of the non-storefront medical cannabis retail business or its owners, managers, directors, officers, employees, or its qualified patients or primary caregivers for violation of federal or state laws;

2. Maintain insurance in the amounts and of the types that are acceptable to the city manager or designee; and
3 Reimburse the city for all costs and expenses, including, without limitation, legal fees and costs and court costs, which the city may be required to pay as a result of any legal challenge related to the city ’s approval of a minor use permit or non-storefront medical cannabis retail regulatory permit or related to the city’s approval of non-storefront medical cannabis retail activity. The city, at its sole discretion, may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action, but such participation shall not relieve the applicant of any of the obligations imposed hereunder.

5.20.130 Violations.

A. It is the duty of the city manager, planning director, police chief, or their designees, to enforce the rules and regulations in accordance with this chapter.

B. Pursuant to the city’s prosecutorial discretion, the city may enforce violations of the provisions of this chapter as criminal, civil, and/or administrative actions.

C. Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter may be subject to administrative fines in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00, or such other amount as may be permitted under California Government Code § 36901. In addition to the recovery of administrative fines, the city may recover its costs and expenses incurred in enforcing a violation of this chapter. An order to pay administrative fines and costs may be appealed pursuant to section 1.12.210 of this code.

E. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a non- storefront medical cannabis retail permit may not be issued, renewed, or amended unless and until due and unpaid citations are paid in full.

5.20.140 Nuisance.

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A. Any use or condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be and is hereby declared a public nuisance.

B. The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be and is hereby declared to be contrary to the public interest and shall, at the discretion of the city, create a cause for injunctive relief.

C. Any person subject to this chapter who personally, or through an agent, employee, independent contractor, or other representative, violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any such violation is committed, continued, or permitted by such person. All remedies provided herein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.” SECTION 3. The definition of “commercial cannabis activity” in Section 8.52.010 (Definitions) of Chapter 8.52 (Cannabis Prohibitions and Regulations) of Title 8 (Health and Safety) is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Commercial cannabis activity means the cul tivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis product for medical, non-medical, or any other purpose and includes the activities of any business licensed by the state or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, or any provision of state law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses. Commercial cannabis activity does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, or transportation of cannabis by a qualified patient for his or her personal medical use so long as the qualified patient does not provide, donate, sell or distribute cannabis to any other person. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, transportation, donation or provision of cannabis by a primary caregiver, exclusively for the personal medical purposes of no more than five specified qualified patients for whom he or she is the primary caregiver, but who does not receive remuneration for these activities except for compensation in full compliance with California Health and Safety Code section 11362.765. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the possession, storing, delivery or sale of cannabis by a non-storefront medical cannabis retailer as defined in section 5.20.020 of chapter 5.20 of this code.” SECTION 4. Section 8.52.030 (Exceptions) of Chapter 8.52 (Cannabis Prohibitions and Regulations) of Title 8 (Health and Safety) is hereby amended to add a new subsection “D” to read as set forth below with the remainder of the section to remain unchanged:
“D. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the establishment of one physical premises from which retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis within the city is conducted by a non-storefront medical cannabis retail use. A non-storefront medical cannabis retail use shall be permitted with a minor use permit subject to the requirements set forth in section

17.102.080 and a non-storefront medical cannabis retail regulatory permit subject to the requirements set forth in chapter 5.20 . A non-storefront medical cannabis retailer may deliver medical cannabis within the jurisdictional limits of the city.” SECTION 5. Table 17.30.030-1 (Allowed Land Uses and Permit Requirements by Base Zone) of Section 17.30.030 (Allowed L and Uses and P ermit Requirements) of Chapter 17.30 (Allowed Land Use by Base Zone) of Article III (Zones, A llowed Uses, and D evelopment Ordinance 1022 Page 13 of 16
Standards) of Title 17 (Development Code) is hereby amended to add “ non-storefront medical cannabis retail” as a “Permitted with a Minor Use Permit” use subject to section 17.102.080 in the Neo- Industrial (NI) and Industrial Employment (IE) zones. The “ non-storefront medical cannabis retail” use shall be “Not Permitted” in all other zones.

SECTION 6. Subsection (E)(12) of Section 17.32.020 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Chapter 17.32 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Article III (Zones, Allowed Uses, and Development Standards) of Title 17 (Development Code) is hereby amended to read as follows:
“12. Commercial cannabis activity . Any location providing for the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis product for medical, non-medical, or any other purpose and includes the activities of any business licensed by the state or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, or any provision of state law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses. Commercial cannabis acti vity does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, or transportation of cannabis by a qualified patient for his or her personal medical use so long as the qualified patient does not provide, donate, sell or distribute cannabis to any other person. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, transportation, donation or provision of cannabis by a primary caregiver, exclusively for the personal medical purposes of no more than five specified qualified patients for whom he or she is the primary caregiver, but who does not receive remuneration for these activities except for compensation in full compliance with California Health and Safety Code § 11362.765.

Commercial cannabis ac tivity also does not include the possession, storing, delivery or sale of cannabis by a non-storefront medical cannabis retail er as defined in section

5.20.020 of chapter 5.20 of this code.”
SECTION 7. Subsections (E)(22) through (E)(28) of Section 17.32.020 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Chapter 17.32 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Article III (Zones, Allowed Uses, and Development Standards) of Title 17 (Development Code) are hereby renumbered to (E)(23) through (E)(29), respectively.

SECTION 8. A new Subsection (E)(22) is hereby added to Section 17.32.020 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Chapter 17.32 (Allowed Use Descriptions) of Article III (Zones, Allowed Uses, and Development Standards) of Title 17 (Development Code) to read as follows:
“22. Non-storefront medical cannabis retail. A retailer as defined in section 5.20.020 of chapter 5.20 of this code.”
SECTION 9. Section 17.94.040 (Exceptions) of Chapter 17.94 (Commercial Cannabis Uses and Cultivation) of Article V (Specific Use Requirements) of Title 17 (Development Code) is hereby amended to add a new subsection “D” to read as set forth below with the remainder of the section to remain unchanged:
“D. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the establishment of one physical premises from which retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis within the city is conducted by a non-storefront medical cannabis retail use. A non-storefront medical cannabis retail use shall be permitted with a minor use permit subject to the requirements set forth in section

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requirements set forth in chapter 5.20 . A non-storefront medical cannabis retailer may deliver medical cannabis within the jurisdictional limits of the city.” SECTION 10. Section 17.102.080 ( Non-storefront Medical Cannabis R etail) is hereby added to Chapter 17.102 (Special Regulated Uses) of Article V (Specific Use Regulations) of Title 17 (Development Code) to read as set forth below:
“17.102.080 Non-storefront medical cannabis retail.

A. Applicability. The development standards of this section shall apply to non- storefront medical cannabis retail facilities. “Non-storefront medical cannabis retail” means a retailer that sells medicinal cannabis or medicinal c annabis products, as those terms are defined in Business and Professions Code § 26001(ak)(1), as may be amended, to customers exclusively through delivery. A non-storefront medical cannabis retail has a permitted premises to store medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis for delivery, but the premises is not open to the public. A non-storefront medical cannabis retailer shall have a State License Type M -Type 9, Non- Storefront Retailer, limited to delivery services of medical cannabis or cannabis products only.

B. Limit on r etailers. No more than one non -storefront medical cannabis retail use shall be allowed in the city.

C. Permitted with minor use permit . The non-storefront medical cannabis retail use shall be permitted upon issuance of a minor use permit, subject to section 17.16.120, in the Neo- Industrial (NI) and Industrial Employment (IE) zones, pursuant to Table

17.30.030-1 of section 17.30.030 of this code , except that a non-storefront medical cannabis retail use is not permitted west of Haven Avenue.

D. Minimum proximity requirements. Non-storefront medical cannabis retail facilities shall not be located closer than 600 feet from a school or daycare facility (public or private) or any other sensitive use listed in Business and Professions Code § 26054(b), 1,000 feet from any existing residential dwelling, church or similar place of worship, park or playground, recreational facility, hospital, public buildings (e.g., city hall, county offices, courthouse, libraries, etc.), or 1,000 feet from the right-of-way on Haven Avenue, Miliken Avenue, 4th Street, Foothill Boulevard, and the I-15 freeway.

E. Measurement of distance. The distance between a non-storefront medical cannabis retail facility and a use listed in subsection D shall be made in a straight line, without regard to the intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the structure, or portion of the structure, in which the use is located, to the property line of the parcel on which the structure, or portion of the structure, in which the use occurs or is located.

F. Operational restrictions. Non-storefront medical cannabis retailers shall be subject to the requirements of chapter 5.20 of this code.”
SECTION 11. The definition of “commercial cannabis activity” in Section 17.148.020 (Definitions) of Chapter 17.148 (Cannabis Definitions) of Article IX (Glossary) of Title 17 (Development Code) is hereby amended to read as follows:

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“Commercial cannabis activity means the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis product for medical, non-medical, or any other purpose and i ncludes the activities of any business licensed by the state or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code, or any provision of state law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses. Commercial cannabis activity does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, or transportation of cannabis by a qualified patient for his or her personal medical use so long as the qualified patient does not provide, donate, sell or distribute cannabis to any other person. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, transportation, donation or provision of cannabis by a primary caregiver, exclusively for the personal medical purposes of no more than five specified qualified patients for whom he or she is the primary caregiver, but who does not receive remuneration for these activities except for compensation in full compliance with California Health and Safety Code § 11362.765. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the possession, storing, delivery or sale of cannabis by a non- storefront medical cannabis retailer as defined in section 5.20.020 of chapter 5.20 of this code.” SECTION 12. Section 17.148.020 (Definitions) of Chapter 17.148 (Cannabis Definitions) of Article IX (Glossary) of Title 17 (Development Code) is hereby amended to add the following definition of “non-storefront medical cannabis retail” in alphabetical order:
“Non-storefront medical cannabis retail shall have the meaning set forth in section

5.20.020 of chapter 5.20 of this code.”
SECTION 13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the ability of the City to adopt or enforce any regulations on commercial cannabis operations, other than non-storefront, delivery-only medical cannabis retailers in the City as required pursuant to Business and Professions Code Section 26322. Except as expressly amended in this Ordinance, the City’s prohibition on commercial cannabis activities and uses in Chapters 8.52 and 17.94 and Table 17.30.030-1 of the RCMC remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 14. The City Council declares that, should any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance for any reason be held invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 15. Neither the adoption of this Ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of the City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof.

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SECTION 16. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause it to be published in the manner required by law.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this _____ day of ______________, 2023.

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L. Dennis Michael
Mayor
I, JANICE REYNOLDS, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the _____ day of _______________, 2023, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the ______ day of ______________, 2023, by the following vote:

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:

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ATTEST:______________________________
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1 DATE:December 20, 2023
TO:Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM:John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Matt Marquez, Director of Planning and Economic Development Jennifer Nakamura, CNU-A, Deputy Director of Planning
SUBJECT:Public Hearing for Consideration of Resolution No. 2023-125, Adopting a Master Plan for the Epicenter Area, to Articulate a Vision for Enhanced Uses and Activity and Implement Development Standards for the City-Owned Parcels Commonly Known as the Epicenter Sports Complex, Consisting of Quakes Stadium, Sofive Soccer Center, Rancho Cucamonga Sports Center, Rancho Cucamonga Animal Center, Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility Facility and Parking, Associated Parking Lots and a City-Owned Vacant Lot at the Northwest Corner of Rochester and Arrow. No Privately Owned Parcels are Subject to This Proposed Plan. APN’s 229-012-73 and -74, 0229-012-01,-02,-03,-09,-10,-22,-23,-72. An Addendum to the General Plan Program Environmental Impact Report (SCH No. 2021050261) Has Been Prepared for this Project. (RESOLUTION NO. 2023-125) (CITY)
RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2023-125, adopting a Master Plan for the Epicenter Area.

BACKGROUND:

On December 15, 2021, the City Council adopted the updated General Plan for the City of Rancho Cucamonga. The City Council initiated this update process, referred to as PlanRC, to be compliant with changes in state law and to build on our success as a world class community to create a balanced, vibrant and innovative city. This comprehensive General Plan Update addressed issues and challenges facing the City, including diversifying employment opportunities, expanding housing and mobility choice and preserving the character, history, and quality of life that make Rancho Cucamonga a special place to live.

The General Plan advances the City’s vision for a sustainable, resilient, equitable and healthy community.

The General Plan establishes a Downtown Focus Area plan (page 102) which envisions and illustrates the potential of the area around Victoria Gardens and the Epicenter Sports Complex to become the “real downtown” of Rancho Cucamonga. Specifically, the General Plan envisions this Epicenter area as a fun, active district which serves as a destination for recreation, entertainment, and gathering. In 2022, the City undertook preparation of the Epicenter Master Plan to implement this key portion of the Downtown Focus Area plan.

The Epicenter Master Plan is not only intended to accelerate the vision for the “real downtown” of Rancho Cucamonga but to also address two important challenges: 1) there is not enough community activity throughout each day and each season of the year at the Epicenter, and 2) there is not enough revenue to cover what the City spends maintaining the 56-acre holdings in the plan area. Therefore, this Master Plan 2 2
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1 will guide new public and private investment and development in the plan area to ensure they enhance and expand the range of community-serving activities and amenities and that they generate sufficient revenue to support those resources, rather than privatizing important public amenities. Overall, the Epicenter Master Plan lays out the vision for the area, development and improvement strategies for the near-term and long-term, development and land use regulations, and an implementation playbook.

ANALYSIS:

The Vision:

The vision and goals for the Master Plan area are in direct alignment with those of the General Plan: Creating a vibrant, walkable area supported by a mix of active uses that is connected by multimodal transportation options. The Master Plan organizes the area into several walkable blocks, defined and interconnected by a network of streets oriented to pedestrians and bicyclists while also accommodating for significant amounts of vehicular traffic and parking. Establishing the block network and pedestrian-priority areas creates the framework to evolve the area from its current condition of isolated sports facilities surrounded by surface parking lots to an active, well-connected sports and entertainment district. As shown in the conceptual site plan below, each block offers opportunity sites for new commercial and mixed-use development. Retail, food and beverage, and entertainment uses on the ground floors and new hotels, offices, and other supportive uses on upper floors of mixed-use buildings are key priorities in creating a district with a sense of place.

These uses can be supported by structured parking for visitors, tenants, customers, and for the ballpark and Sports Center. With significant amounts of new housing and office space planned along Foothill Boulevard less than a half-mile to the north, it is a priority of the Master Plan to provide multimodal connections to this new housing and to nearby businesses through bike trail improvements and connections to nearby public transit.

Phased and Shared Parking Strategy:

In its current condition, the Epicenter Sports Complex contains a robust supply of parking. The amount of parking easily accommodates the busiest events of the year, as shown in the parking inventory below. When planning for new development, particularly development that enhances the pedestrian experience, some existing parking lots will need to be displaced, and the parking demands of the district will need to be met through more efficient and creative means than a sea of surface parking. The Master Plan provides four

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1 strategies for managing the parking supply in the interim while planning for future development such as utilizing nearby vacant and under-utilized land for overflow surface parking, creating a shared parking structure to free up valuable land within the heart of the Plan Area, and negotiating with neighbor properties to share available parking spaces. The goal is to provide sufficient parking for all visitors with efficient management strategies to ensure the presence of automobiles and parking spaces do not erode the pedestrian experience.

Focus Area Concepts:

The Master Plan establishes two focus areas within its Plan Area based on current usage patterns and opportunities for growth. The Focus Areas are distinguished as “Focus Area North” (#1) and “Focus Area South” (#2), as shown below. The Master Plan outlines near-term action items for both Focus Areas while also establish longer-term visions for both.

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Focus Area North (1) contains the gateway to the Stadium, softball fields, and the Sports Center, at the intersection of Rochester Avenue and Stadium Way. This Focus Area is intended to serve as the central hub of activity with the existing green space (referred to as the Epicenter Green) at the corner of Rochester Avenue and Stadium Way being improved and oriented as a significant destination. The presence of several surface parking lots provides a canvas to accommodate new development and associated activities. The Master Plan proposes seven specific near-term action items to serve as catalysts for future investment and development. The seven action items are listed and summarized below:

1. Improve the Epicenter Green: Create a flexible open space utilizing furniture and play equipment along with a central stage to anchor the space and accommodate live performances and other events. In addition, create a small corner building to support operational services such as ticketing offices to serve as the gateway to the Green along with shade structures, improved sidewalks, and improvements to the existing beer garden.

2. Introduce Promenades: Create the first phase of a promenade and sidewalk network to pedestrianize the district and establish the public realm. Promenades will eventually connect the Epicenter and softball fields to the Sports Center and the multi-use path within the adjacent Southern California Edison (SCE) property.

3. Tactical Activation: Install structures such as tents, shipping containers, and food trucks to allow for flexible food, beverages, and retail uses to line the promenade during events or throughout the year.

When successful, these uses can remain as-is or they can become housed in more permanent spaces within development in the future.

4. Improve the Beer Garden: Enhance the existing space to serve as a dining and drinking terrace which overlooks and engages the promenade, Stadium Way, and Epicenter Green and establish it as an activity hub outside of game days. Improvements include shade structures, planted trellises, string lights, and trees.

5. Connect to Sebastian Way: Create the first phase of an eventual direct connection to Sebastian Way to the North. An improved sidewalk and street or a new shared multi-modal path could provide a flow of new customers for the existing business in the buildings fronting on Sebastian Way while also eventually providing a walkable/bikeable connection for new residents along Foothill Boulevard.

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1 6. Manage Parking: Identify and establish overflow surface parking areas on nearby vacant and underutilized land to support the initial phases of development.

While the near-term action items described above are intended to catalyze more activity around the focus area, the Master Plan also includes a section on longer-term visions for both focus areas. These vision statements focus on how the existing parking lots can be developed and how the improved public realm can support more commercial uses and programming, especially the uses that were successful in the near-term.

The longer-term vision statements are summarized below:

1. Leverage the Stadium’s Value: Utilize the stadium as a year-round asset that can host a multitude of events outside of the baseball season such as concerts.

2. Activate Frontages Line the Public Realm: Ensure that the streets and open spaces of the Focus Area be lined with active ground floors that bring life to the public realm. Primary active frontages include shops and restaurants while secondary active frontages can include a wider range of uses.

3. Compatible Supporting Uses: Attract uses such as hotels and offices to support the area daily and establish new businesses and connections that can be made to nearby housing.

4. Shared Structured Parking Supply: Establish shared, structured parking to minimize the footprint occupied by parking within the district and to ensure efficient parking management.

Focus Area South
Focus Area South (2) features more existing uses compared to Focus Area North and therefore, minimal change is anticipated in the near term. The Area currently contains the Animal Center, a vacant lot reserved for future Animal Center expansion and sports facilities. The Master Plan offers the following action items for near term change:

1. Strategies for the Future Animal Center Lot: These include accommodating an interim animal-related use on a lease that would expire when the Animal Center is expected to be expanded or for temporary overflow parking in support of interim uses and new activity in Focus Area North.

2. Support Existing Uses: Support the current sports-related uses and the Animal Center as they are part of the longer-term vision for the area.

The longer-term vision for Focus Area South depends heavily on the expansion of the active environment envisioned for Focus Area North. The Master Plan offers the following longer-term vision statements listed below:

1. Animal Center Expansion: Establish a new facility on the vacant lot that includes public education and training programs, as well as an animal adoption program. The form of the facility would take a similar approach as other new developments in containing an inviting entry and an overall design that contributes to the public realm.

2. Animal-Related Uses: Collaboration between the Animal Center and other organizations or businesses on programing and shared event space, such as a dog park.

3. Sports-Anchored Uses: Attract businesses such as food and beverage establishments which utilize sports as a main attraction, like Top Golf.

4. Shared Structured Parking: Utilize the existing surface parking lot site as a shared parking structure which could accommodate ground-floor retail or be easily adapted for other uses in the future.

Development Regulations:

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The Master Plan provides standards, which are either in addition to or supersede the Corridor 2 (CO2) standards within the Development Code. The standards specific to the Master Plan Area are listed below:

1. Connections: Requiring pedestrian and vehicular connections to be made within the Master Plan area and to the Master Plan area from adjacent streets and properties. The Regulating Plan establishes eight specific locations for connections, some include specific dimensional standards while other are left without dimensions for flexible application.

2. Building Placement: Buildings shall be placed according to the table below. Like the standards within Article VIII (Form-Based Code) of the Development Code, buildings are required to be placed within a Private Frontage Area with a minimum Buildout Percentage along the frontages and parking lots to be located behind buildings. The standards are provided in the diagram and table below:

3. Frontage: The building entrance, building façade, and design of the private frontage area are subject to the applicable standards for the Corridor 2 (CO2) zone found within Article VIII of the Development Code.

4. Parking & Vehicular Access: Requires adequate provisions for traffic circulation, parking, and pedestrian safety be provided to the satisfaction of the Planning Director and the City Engineer. Proof of adequate parking may be required at the discretion of the Planning Director.

5. Facades: Requires specific sites, per the Regulating Plan, to include ‘Corner Treatments’ such as a corner tower, dome, or parapet element on prominent corners as well as enhanced transparency along the ground floors to form a prominent entry. Also included are standards for screening along the

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The development standards in the Master Plan and Article VIII (Form-Based Code) serve as the tool for implementing the vision for the Area in creating a walkable, vibrant area with a multitude of amenities that create a local and regional destination.

Street Design Standards
The Master Plan provides standards for all new vehicular connections and improvements to existing streets within the Plan Area. All vehicular street rights-of-way shall contain the following elements of the public realm: Roadway, Landscape/Amenity Area, and Pedestrian Way. These standards align with the goals and policies of the General Plan, the guidance of the Placemaking Toolkit, and the right-of-way standards within Article VIII (Form-Based Code). The Master Plan provides the diagram and table below for the regulating standards:

In addition, the Master Plan provides examples of interior street sections as well as Stadium Way for how the right-of-way elements and their requisite standards should apply to create walkable streets that also accommodate for vehicular traffic.

Allowed Uses
The Master Plan establishes the land uses allowed for any new development within the Plan Area. The provided land use table overrides the Land Use Standards in Chapter 17.136 of the Development Code.

Notably, Article V (Specific Use Requirements), Chapter 17.32 (Allowed Use Descriptions), and regulations in Section 17.30.020 (Classifications of Land uses) of the Development Code still apply to the Master Plan development regulations. In addition, the Master Plan categorizes the permit requirements in the same manner as the Development Code.

For all uses requiring a Minor (MUP) or Conditional (CUP) Use Permit, specific conditions have been included that apply to developments only within the Master Plan Area. Seven specific conditions relate to a variety of topics such as ensuring ground floors are transparent and properly utilized, mitigation of potential public nuisances and noxious odors, and ensuring that ground floor uses adhere to the active frontage standards and align with the vision of the Plan Area.

The table of allowed uses utilizes the existing uses and use categories from the Development Code to create a table of allowed uses tailored to the vision of the Master Plan Area. The use categories most represented

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Implementation Playbook:

The final chapter of the Epicenter Master Plan provides a working tool – or “playbook” – for evaluating the impacts and desired timing of the near-term and longer-time action items discussed above. The Playbook contains a spreadsheet which identifies the benefits, challenges, potential locations, key strategies, financial impact, parking impact, priority/timing, and the people draw associated with the various concepts being proposed. The spreadsheet also includes a ‘visual scorecard’ analyzes potential impacts of the concepts using a color-coded system. The intent is to enable the user to analyze, simulations, multiple considerations and trade-offs at a glance.

Generally, the playbook evaluates the development concepts, improvement concepts, programming and operations, and the existing uses discussed throughout the document. Similar to the General Plan Placemaking Toolkit, the playbook provides a helpful resource for guiding the decisions related funding and implementation without making definitive determinations, leaving room for flexibility in fulfilling the vision of the Master Plan.

Planning Commission:

On November 8, 2023, the Planning Commission conducted an advertised public hearing on this item. No public comments were received. The Commission was pleased with the concepts introduced in the Master Plan to provide more activity at the Epicenter and better connect the Epicenter and Sports Center properties into a more cohesive activity center for the community. The Commission unanimously adopted Planning Commission Resolution 23-27 recommending City Council adopt the Epicenter Master Plan.

Environmental Review:

In approving the General Plan update in December 2021, the City Council certified the Rancho Cucamonga General Plan Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) (SCH No. 2021050261) in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, the City has reviewed the proposed Epicenter Master Plan against the General Plan EIR and determined the EIR adequately addresses all the environmental issues associated with the project. The proposed project would not result in any new significant impacts on the environment based upon the analysis and conclusions presented in the General Plan EIR. Finally, no new feasible mitigation measures have been identified that would substantially reduce significant impacts identified in the General Plan EIR. Therefore, staff has prepared an EIR Addendum for the Epicenter Master Plan. Unlike an EIR, an Addendum is not required to be circulated for public review.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The adoption of this Master Plan will further facilitate future development consistent with the vision outlined in the General Plan. The General Plan vision for denser, mixed use urban centers can help Rancho Cucamonga maintain a high level of fiscal performance and become a regional destination and focal point of activity.

COUNCIL GOAL(S) ADDRESSED:

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1.1 BACKGROUND, PURPOSE, AND SCOPE ................................................................................................ 1

1.2 PREVIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION ........................................................................ 3

1.3 ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING .................................................................................................................... 6

1.4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................ 11

2. FINDINGS ...................................................................................................................................... 22

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Figure 1 Local and Regional Location ............................................................................................................... 7 Figure 2 Aerial Photograph ................................................................................................................................. 9 Figure 3 Focus Area Map .................................................................................................................................. 13 Figure 4 Short Term Proposed Focus Area North ....................................................................................... 15 Figure 5 Long Term Proposed Focus Area North ....................................................................................... 17 Figure 6 Short Term Proposed Focus Area South ........................................................................................ 19 Figure 7 Long Term Proposed Focus Area South ........................................................................................ 21 Figure 8 General Plan Focus Area Map .......................................................................................................... 25

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Table 1 General Plan EIR Significant and Unavoidable Impacts and Impacts of the Proposed Project ................................................................................................................................... 4

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1. Addendum to the Adopted General Plan EIR

1.1 BACKGROUND, PURPOSE, AND SCOPE
This addendum to the General Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR), certified in December 2021 (State Clearinghouse Number 2021050261), demonstrates that the analysis in the General Plan EIR adequately addresses the potential physical impacts associated with implementation of the proposed project and that none of the conditions exist as described in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, Section 15162, so preparation of a subsequent EIR or negative declaration is not necessary.

1.1.1 Purpose of an EIR Addendum
According to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164(a), an addendum shall be prepared if some changes or additions to a previously adopted EIR are necessary, but none of the conditions in Sections 15162(a)(1) to (3) calling for the preparation of subsequent EIR have occurred. As stated in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 (Subsequent EIRs and Negative Declarations):

When an EIR has been certified or negative declaration adopted for a project, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in the light of the whole record, one or more of the following:
(1) Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR or negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; (2) Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR or negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; or (3) New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete or negative declaration was adopted, shows any of the following:
(a) The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR or negative declaration;
(b) Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR;
(c) Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or

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(d) Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure o r alternative.

The proposed project would not trigger any of the conditions in Sections 15162(a)(1) to (3) because the changes would not result in new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects requiring major revisions to the General Plan EIR. The following analysis provides the substantial evidence required by Section 15164(e) to support the finding that a subsequent EIR is not required and an addendum to the General Plan EIR is the appropriate environmental document to address changes to the project.

As stated in CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, Addendum to an EIR:
(a) The lead agency or responsible agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred. (b) An addendum to an adopted negative declaration may be prepared if only minor technical changes or additions are necessary or none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for the preparation of a subsequent EIR or negative declaration have occurred. (c) An addendum need not be circulated for public review but can be included in or attached to the final EIR or adopted negative declaration.
(d) The decision-making body shall consider the addendum with the final EIR or adopted negative declaration prior to making a decision on the project. (e) A brief explanation of the decision not to prepare a subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 should be included in an addendum to an EIR, the lead agency's findings on the project, or elsewhere in the record. The explanation must be supported by substanti al evidence.

As demonstrated in Section 2 of this Addendum, the proposed project would not result in impacts that differ from the approved project, and it would not trigger the need for preparation of a subsequent or supplemental EIR under the criteria in Sections 15162(a) and 15163(a). The propo sed project is consistent with the general plan. The impacts of the proposed project are within the levels and types of environmental impacts disclosed in the General Plan EIR.

1.1.2 Scope and Analysis for this Addendum
The proposed project would not propose growth beyond what was evaluated under the General Plan EIR or change the buildout evaluated under the approved project, and no substantial changes in circumstances under Section 15162(a)(2) have occurred since the certification of the 20 21 EIR that would indicate new significant impacts or substantially increase the severity of significant impacts previously identified. The background environmental conditions have not significantly changed since the certification of the 20 21 EIR. The City of

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Rancho Cucamonga has received no information indicating a substantial change in any circumstances that would result in a new or substantially greater significant impact.

In addition, no information that was not known and could not have been known at the time of the 20 21 Certified EIR preparation has been revealed that shows new or substantially greater significant impacts would result (see CEQA Guidelines Section 15162[a][3]). There are no new or different mitigation measures that would substantially reduce one or more s ignificant impacts of the approved project but that are not adopted.

The proposed project does not identify or require adoption of any further mitigation me asures beyond those provided in the 2021 Certified EIR.

Since this Addendum does not identify new or substantially greater significant impacts, circulation for public review and comment is not necessary (CEQA Guidelines Section 15164[c]). However, the Rancho Cucamonga City Council will consider this Addendum at a public meeting prior to the adoption of the Epicenter Master Plan (CEQA Guidelines Section 15164[d]). If the Rancho Cucamonga City Council approves this Addendum, it shall be required to make findings by way of a resolution, including a finding that thi s Addendum provides the basis and substantial evidence for the decision not to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR (CEQA Guidelines Section 15164[e]).

1.2 PREVIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION
This Addendum relies on environmental analysis in the 2021 Draft EIR and 20 21 Final EIR, collectively referred to in this Addendum as the 2021 Certified EIR. In accordance with CEQA Guidelines Sections 15148 and 15150, this Addendum incorporates the 2021 Certified EIR (and its constituent parts) by reference. A summary of the 2021 Certified EIR and how it relates to this Addendum is provided below. All documents incorporated by reference are available for review on the City’s website: https://www.cityofrc.us/GeneralPlan or in person at the City of Rancho Cucamonga Planning Department at 10500 Civic Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730.

1.2.1 2021 Draft EIR for the Rancho Cucamonga General Plan Update The General Plan EIR found that with the implementation of policies and actions from the General Plan and standard conditions of approval identified in the EIR, there would be less than significant impacts related to aesthetics, energy, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous materials, hydrology/water quality, land use/planning, mineral resources, population/housing, public services, recreation, tribal cultural resources, utilities and services, and wildfire.

Table 1, General Plan EIR Significant and Unavoidable Impacts and Impacts of the Proposed Project , lists the significant and unavoidable impact determinations of the General Plan EIR and compares the resulting impacts of the proposed project to those determinations. T he General Plan EIR determined that implementation of the General Plan would result in significant and unavoidable impacts to agriculture/forest ry resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, noise , and transportation. As described below, the proposed project would be within the scope of analysis of the General Plan update identified in the EIR. The proposed project would incorporate all applicable standard conditions of approval for significant and unavoidable impacts identified in Table 1 and would not create a new significant impact or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified effects.

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Table 1 General Plan EIR Significant and Unavoidable Impacts and Impacts of the Proposed Project Environmental Topic Significant and Unavoidable Impact Determination Resulting Impact of the Proposed Project Agriculture and Forest Resources Impact 5.2 -1: The proposed project would convert Farmland to non - agricultural uses but would not result in the conversion of forest land to non-forest uses. [Thresholds AG-1 and AG-5]
The proposed project would improve and expand existing parkland in the City of Rancho Cucamonga.

The project site is currently used as park space and does not have agricultural uses. The proposed project would not have an effect on agricultural land becaus e the project site does not include agricultural uses and there are none adjacent to the site. The proposed project would not have an effect on forest lands because there are no lands that qualify as forest or timberland.

Air Quality Impact 5.3-2: The proposed project would cause construction-generated criteria air pollutant or precursor emissions to exceed South Coast AQMD-recommended thresholds. [Threshold AQ-2]
Impact 5.3-3: The proposed project would result in a net increase in long- term operational criteria air pollutant and precursor emissions that exceed South Coast AQMD -recommended thresholds. [Threshold AQ - 2]
Impact 5.3-5: The proposed project would expose sensitive receptors to substantial increases in toxic air contaminant emissions. [Threshold AQ- 3]
The Epicenter Master Plan would accommodate future development of recreational uses and commercial uses.

The future development and other physical changes that could result from Epicenter Master Plan implementation would generate construction- related emissions of criteria air pollutants and precursors.

The levels of emissions would be difficult to determine for the construction phasing and intensity.

The implementation of the Epicenter Master Plan could result in exposure of sensitive receptors due to construction-related toxic air contaminants. However, the future development would be in various areas, so no one receptor would be exposed to operation levels for long periods of time.

Biological Resources Impact 5.4 -1: Buildout of the proposed Land Use Plan would impact sensitive plant and animal species known to occur in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. [Threshold B-1]
Buildout of the city in accordance with the Epicenter Master Plan could impact special status vegetation or special status wildlife in the city. The city’s environment may change over time, making it possible for other vegetation communities to become sensitive, and/or other species may be listed in the future. The General Plan Resource Conservation Element identifies policies to reduce impacts to the city’s biological resources.

However, the Epicenter Master Plan Area is already a built -out park area surrounded by industrial uses.

Therefore, it is unlikely that the proposed project would impact sensitive species.

Cultural Resources Impact 5.5-1: Buildout of the City of Rancho Cucamonga General Plan could impact historic resources. [Thresholds C-1]

Future development under the proposed Epicenter Master Plan could adversely impact some of these historic resources. However, before any development or redevelopment projects can occur in the city, all such projects are required to be analyzed for conformance with the General Plan, zoning requirements, and other applicable local and state requirements; comply with the requirements of CEQA; and obtain all necessary clearances and permits. Therefore, adoption of the Epicenter Master Plan would not lead to demolition or material alteration of any of these historic resources.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact 5.8 -4: The proposed project would be inconsistent with the State’s ability to achieve the long- term reduction goals or Executive Orders S-3-05, B-30-15, and B-55-18. [Threshold GHG-2]

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Table 1 General Plan EIR Significant and Unavoidable Impacts and Impacts of the Proposed Project Environmental Topic Significant and Unavoidable Impact Determination Resulting Impact of the Proposed Project Noise Impact 5.13 -1: Construction activities would result in temporary noise increases in the vicinity of the future development under the General Plan. [Threshold N-1]

Impact 5.13- 2: Project implementation could generate a substantial permanent increase in traffic noise levels at noise-sensitive land uses in excess local standards. [Threshold N-2]

Impact 5.13-4: Expose new sensitive land uses to noise levels in excess of the noise compatibility standards identified in 2040 General Plan Noise Element Table N-1. [Threshold N-4]

Impact 5.13- 5: Future development under the General Plan could generate short-term construction vibration or exposure to new sensitive land uses to long- term operational vibration sources that exceed City thresholds. [Threshold N-5]
Future developments under the 2040 General Plan would occur over the span of 20 years and would generate temporary noise level increases from individual construction sites. Because there are no specific plans or time scales for individual future development projects , it is currently not possible to determine site-specific construction noise levels.

Traffic noise modeling was conducted for existing (2021) and future (2040) conditions using traffic data generated for the 2040 General Plan, which was based on anticipated land use development contemplated under buildout conditions through 2040. Future project-specific components and details of all development under General Plan implementation cannot be known at this time

New development associated with the 2040 General Plan could potentially be near existing roadways and existing or future planned railroads. Thus, because specific land use development details are unknown, including land use type and exposure levels, it cannot be guaranteed that noise levels would always be achievable.

Implementation of standard conditions of approval 5.13 -5b and 5.13-5c require project-specific vibration analyses to evaluate vibration exposure from nearby transit sources and potential vibration impacts from new transit projects . However, because exact rail locations and technologies are unknown, including specific receptor type and proximity to transit, it cannot be determined whether new development would achieve acceptable vibration levels.

Transportation Impact 5.17-2: The project may be inconsistent with CEQA Guidelines section 15064.3, subdivision (b) regarding policies to reduce VMT. [Threshold B-2]
Although the analysis shows that the SBTAM model predicts VMT per service population to decrease in the future due to improved development and transportation patterns, there are some factors that are not captured in the model. Therefore, it is difficult to predict VMT/SP behavior for future projects. Furthermore, the cost of implementing mitigation measures is unknown and does not guarantee the effectiveness of implementing them citywide.

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1.3 ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING

1.3.1 Project Location
The City of Rancho Cucamonga is in the Inland Empire at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in western San Bernardino County. It is bounded by the cities of Upland, Ontario, Fontana, the San Bernardino National Forest, and rural unincorporated areas of San Bernardino County. State Route 210 (SR-210), which runs east- west, bisects the city; Interstate 15 (I -15), which runs north -south, bounds the eastern side of the city, and I - 10, which runs east-west, is approximately 0.75 mile south of the city.

The Epicenter Master Plan Area is 56 acres on Rochester Avenue in a commercial and light industrial area south of Foothill Boulevard. See Figure 1, Local and Regional Location.

1.3.2 Environmental Setting

1.3.2.1 EXISTING LAND USE
The Epicenter Master Plan Area includes Quakes Stadium, three softball fields available for community leagues and tournaments, one Little League baseball field, a new Sports Center east of Rochester Ave, soccer fields, and an animal center. The athletic facilities are surrounded by surface parking lots that are rarely utilized to capacity, even when the Quakes are playing. See Figure 2, Aerial Photograph. The Plan Area is primarily designated General Open Space and Facilities (OS), with a small portion of the southeast corner designated Neo-Industrial Employment. The Plan Area is primarily zoned as Parks with a small portion of the southeast corner zoned as Neo-Industrial.

1.3.2.2 SURROUNDING LAND USE
The Epicenter Master Plan Area is surrounded primarily by commercials uses and industrial uses. The surrounding properties are all privately owned and mostly commercial and industrial in use, suburban in character, and separated from one another and from the Epicenter Master Plan Area by security fences and walls.

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1.4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION

1.4.1 Project Description
The proposed Epicenter Master Plan includes 56 acres of City-owned land. The Epicenter Master Plan is intended to build and activate a hub, provide an all-day and year-round active environment, expand the district, and provide a multimodal network within the Epicenter. The Epicenter Master Plan identifies and studies two focus areas: Focus Area North and Focus Area South, shown on Figure 3, Focus Area Map, and labeled as ‘1’ and ‘2’, respectively.

1.4.1.1 FOCUS AREA NORTH
Short Term Improvements
Focus Area North features the gateway to both the Stadium, softball fields, and the Sports Center at the intersection of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way. This area is intended to serve as a hub, and the existing green (Epicenter Green) would be improved and utilized as a significant destination. The open parking lots that fill most of this focus area can accommodate new, exciting activities and development. See Figure 4, Short Term Proposed Focus Area North.

Long Term Improvements
Long term, the Focus Area North includes extending connections to the east and adjacent sites, supporting compatible uses, and utilizing the stadium for other purposes throughout the year. See Figure 5, Long Term Proposed Focus Area North.

1.4.1.2 FOCUS AREA SOUTH
Short Term Improvements
The southern portion of the plan area features more existing uses than Focus Area North, including the Animal Center and Soccer Fields. Therefore, minimal change is anticipated in the near term. Eventually, the Animal Center is expected to grow —with a new building at Rochester Ave and Arrow R oute—and other uses could expand the active environment envisioned for Focus Area South. See Figure 6 , Short Term Proposed Focus Area South.

Long Term Improvements
Long term, the Focus Area South of the Epicenter Master Plan Area includes expansion to the Animal Center, Shared Parking structure, and new plaza and routes through the area. See Figure 7, Long Term Proposed Focus Area South.

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Introduction
Focus Area South
The southern portion of the plan
area features more existing uses
than Focus Area North, including
the Animal Center and Sofive Soccer
Center. Therefore, minimal change
is anticipated in the near term.

Eventually, the Animal Center is
expected to grow—with a new building
at Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte—and
other uses could expand the active
environment envisioned for Focus Area
North.

Focus Area North
Focus Area North features the gateway
to both the Stadium, softball fields, and
the Sports Center, at the intersection
of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way.

As described in Chapter 1, this area is
intended to serve as a hub, and the
existing green—referred to here as
Epicenter Green—can be improved and
utilized as a significant destination. The
open parking lots which fill most of this
focus area offer a relatively blank slate,
which can accommodate new, exciting
activity and development.

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Focus Area North
Build and Activate the Hub
As discussed in Chapter 1, the Epicenter Green and its context can serve as a hub for the area. In the near term, it can become a fun and active gateway to both the Stadium, softball fields, and the Sports Center.

Strategic enhancements to the Epicenter Green and its context, along with tactical structures or vehicles hosting food, beverage, and other commercial uses, can bring life to the area soon. This spread identifies six Action Items which are intended to create and improve this hub; these Action Items are described on the following pages.

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Figure 4 - Short Term Proposed Focus Area North
Epicenter Plan Area
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7 1
3 2
4 6
5 7
2 6
6 5
3 Improve the Epicenter Green
Introduce Promenades
Tactical Activation
Improve the Beer Garden
Connect to Sebastian Wy
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Stadium Programming

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An All-Day, Year-Round
Active Environment
The near-term activation described in the previous section is intended to catalyze a higher concentration of life and activity around this focus area in the long term. Over time, existing parking lots can be developed to accommodate
this growing concentration of activity and further enliven an improved public realm. New buildings can house the
tactical commercial uses and programming that will have succeeded in the near-term as well as other new uses
which support the identity and life of the area.

Legend
1 2
3 4
6 7
Leverage the Stadium
Active Frontages Line the Public Realm
Compatible Supporting Uses
Shared Structured Parking Supply
Extended connection to the east (see
Connection C-8 in Section 3.2)
Connections to adjacent sites (see
connection standards in Chapter 3)
2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
5 Tactical Plaza in Sports Center
Landscaped Area (see page 15)
Leverage the Stadium's Value
As discussed in Chapter 1, the City has the opportunity to utilize the Stadium more consistently throughout the year, bringing more fun events to the community and attracting more patrons to businesses in the area. Currently, Minor League Baseball home games bring significant crowds to the district for just a few hours on 67 days per year—only about one sixth of days—and well below 10% of business hours throughout the year. As is the case with venues across the country, no single tenant or use can adequately leverage such a significant asset. Furthermore, no tenant is guaranteed to be permanent, and the stadium can continue to be an anchor for the area even if tenant(s) change.

Other programming occurs throughout the year, but much of the calendar remains empty. The City should seek a new operator specializing in multi-use venues, who can fully leverage the stadium's value as a controlled-access, ticketable venue through Entertainment acts like the Savannah Bananas, who
have already visited the Epicenter
LA Times
The Wall Street Journal
The field could be adapted to accommodate soccer—
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Figure 5 - Long Term Proposed Focus Area North
Epicenter Plan Area
1 3
2 4
6 5
7 1
3 2
4 6
7 2
6 5
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Active Frontages Line the Public Realm
Compatible Supporting Uses
Shared Structured Parking Supply
Tactical Plaza in Sports Center
Landscaped Area
Extended Connection to the east
Connections to Adjacent Sites
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for the Future Animal
Center Lot
Animal-Oriented Use
The empty lot at the northwest corner
of Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte, which
is reserved for a future Animal Center
expansion, could accommodate an interim
animal-related use on a lease that would
expire when the Animal Center is expected
to be built. This would put this location on
the map for pet-owners, paving the way for
the future Animal Center.

Overflow Parking on Existing Land
Remaining vacant land (excluding that
needed for any interim animal-oriented use
per above) could accommodate short-term,
temporary overflow parking in support of
interim uses and new activity in Focus Area
North. If used for parking, the lot shall be
layered with dust-mitigating ground cover,
such as decomposed granite or gravel. The
lot is largely flat, but it shall be graded where
necessary to create a walkable surface.

Support Existing Uses
which Support Vision
Athletics-related uses and the Animal Center
form part of the long-term vision for the
area. Whether they remain as they are now
or evolve over time, these uses should be
supported. However, the automobile-related
use on the private property at Rochester
Ave and Jack Benny Dr does not contribute
to the evolving identity of this area. If its
property owner so chooses, it could be
redeveloped to better complement the other
Plan Area uses.
3 1
2 Minimal Near-Term Change
The southern portion of the plan area features more existing uses than Focus Area North. Therefore, minimal change is anticipated in the near term. The empty lot at the northwest corner of Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte is reserved for a future Animal Center expansion in the longer term, but it could accommodate overflow parking and/or an interim animal-
related use in the near term. The existing private property north of that corner site (see #6 in the above diagram) is not currently available for redevelopment, but if its property owner so chooses, it could eventually become a use that better complements the Epicenter character and other Epicenter uses.

Legend
1 2
3 4
5 6
Future Animal Center Site
Overflow Parking Opportunities
Existing Animal Center
Existing Little League Field
Existing Sofive Soccer Center
Existing Private Property
Way
Stadium
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
Arrow Rte
Victory Dr
2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
Near-Term Action Items:

Focus Area South
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Figure 6 - Short Term Proposed Focus Area South
Epicenter Plan Area
1 3
2 4
6 5
1 2
6 5
3 Future Animal Center Site
Overflow Parking Opportunities
Existing Animal Center
Existing Little League Field
Existing Private Property
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As the Animal Center continues to advance its mission,
it is in need of a new facility. This facility would host the public-facing program of the Center, including public
education and training and animals in need of adoption. It would feature an inviting entry and animals highly visible from the street to encourage adoptions and community
awareness of the Animal Center. The future building could take a number of forms, but it could feature one or more courtyards which serve as play yards. In such a case, the building would be oriented around the play yards and
form their boundary—rather than fences doing so.

Animal-Related Uses
Other animal-related uses in the area would
both leverage and support the Animal Center.

The Animal Center could collaborate with other
organizations or businesses on programming or
to get the word out regarding vaccination and
adoption events. For example, there are new
businesses which function as a restaurant and
event venue anchored by a dog park. Such a use
could be near Animal Center or anywhere in the
Plan, provided it provides appropriate frontage.

Dog-centric programming and events
Businesses offering pet toys, food, grooming would synergize with the Animal Center. 2 Expanding the Active
District
Over time, the active environment envisioned
for Focus Area North could expand southward.

Development potential in this area depends heavily
on the future of the private property, the Little
League field, the future of Sofive Soccer Center, and
the expansion of the Animal Center. If the private
automobile-related use and the Little League field
were to remain, little change would be expected in
this area. However, if they were to be relocated, a
more robust expansion of the athletic- and animal-
related district could occur, potentially with the
support of a new shared parking structure.

Legend
1 2
3 4
5 6
Animal Center Expansion
Animal-Related Use
Private Development Site
Shared Structured Parking:
featuring active ground floor liner space
facing the green to the north and the plaza
to the west
Potential Plaza at South Entry to Fields
New Route through Block:

The Little League field site may remain for
the lifetime of this plan. However, if it were to
be relocated and this site were to be
redeveloped, a new street connection would
be required.
1 This Animal Center design by WA features courtyard play areas lined by kennels and other programming.

Way
Stadium
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
Arrow Rte
Victory Dr
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Longer-Term Vision: Focus Area South
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Figure 7 - Long Term Proposed Focus Area South
Epicenter Plan Area
1 3
2 4
6 5
1 2
6 5
3 Animal Center Expansion
Animal-Related Use
Private Development Site
Shared Structured Parking:

Featuring Active Ground Floor Liner
Space facing the Green to the north
and the Plaza to the west
New Route through Block:

The Little League Field May Remain
for the Lifetime of this Plan. However,
if it were to be Relocated and this Site
were to be Redeveloped, a New Street
Connection would be Required
4 Potential Plaza at South Entry to Fields
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2. Findings
The General Plan contains policies related to land use and community character, focus areas, open space, mobility and access, housing, public facilities and services, resource conservation, safety, and noise. The General Plan EIR included Standard Conditions of Approval (See Chapter 4, Implementation, of the General Plan and Appendix A of this Addendum, Rancho Cucamonga General Plan EIR MMRP ) for the following environmental topics: aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, noise, transportation, tribal cultural resources, and wildfire. The policies of the General Plan and the City’s existing development standards apply to all development in the General Plan Planning Area and would continue to do so after adoption of the proposed project. The discussion in this addendum confirms that the proposed project has been evaluated for significant impacts pursuant to CEQA.

The following identifies the standards in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 as they relate to the project.

1. No substantial changes are proposed in the project which would require major revisions of the EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects.

The proposed project will provide improvements to the existing Epicenter Sport Complex and adopt the Epicenter Master Plan. The Epicenter Master Plan Area was identified as a Focus Area One of the General Plan, as shown in Figure 8, General Plan Focus Area Map, and the proposed project is consistent with the General Plan as evaluated in the General Plan EIR. While the proposed project provides aesthetic refinements and guidance on future development, the Epicenter Master Plan does not change the conclusions of the EIR and would not require revisions to the General Plan EIR due to new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects.

2. There is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete demonstrating that the project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR.

The policies and standard conditions of approval identified in the General Plan EIR (see Addendum Appendix A) would continue to apply to all development in the city and would have the same mitigating effects as disclosed in the General Plan EIR. Given the recent adoption of the General Plan EIR and the project’s consistency with the General Plan Land Use Diagram, there is no new information that was not known and could not have been known at the time the General Plan EIR was certified demonstrating that the project would have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR. I mpacts would be the same as those disclosed in the certified General Plan EIR.

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3. There is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete demonstrating that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative.

The proposed project will align the zoning districts in the City of Rancho Cucamonga with the General Plan Land Use Map as evaluated by the General Plan EIR as there are no proposed zoning changes . All policies and standard conditions of approval identified in the General Plan EIR would continue to apply to all development in the city and would have the same mitigating effect as disclosed in the General Plan EIR. The proposed project would not change the assumptions described in the General Plan E IR, and therefore would not substantially change the conclusions of the EIR or require new mitigation measures.

4. There is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete demonstrating that mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative.

The proposed project changes would not result in an increase of overall development intensity , and the resulting impacts would be the same as those disclosed in the certified General Plan EIR. Therefore, no new mitigation measures or alternatives to the proposed project would be required.

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6 4

COMMUNITY ACTIVITY NODES
Neighborhood Activity Node
Corridor Activity Node
Focus Areas

MOBILITY CORRIDORS
Transit Priority Street
Bicycle Priority Street
Trail Network
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COMMUNITY ACTIVITY NODES
Transit Priority Street
Bicycle Priority Street
Trail Network

MOBILITY CORRIDORS
Sphere of Influence
Neighborhood Activity Node
Corridor Activity Node
Focus Areas
Figure 8 - General Plan Focus Area Map

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Upland
Ontario
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Prepared for:

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Contact: Jennifer Nakamura, Management Analyst II
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1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 1

1.1 PURPOSE OF MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM ............................ 1

1.2 PROJECT LOCATION .................................................................................................................................... 1

1.3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION .............................................................................................................................. 2

1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ..................................................................................................................... 2

2. MITIGATION MONITORING REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................. 5

2.1 CATEGORIZED MITIGATION MEASURES/MATRIX ....................................................................... 5

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1.1 PURPOSE OF MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING

PROGRAM
This Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) has been developed to provide a vehicle by which to monitor mitigation measures and conditions of approval outlined in the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), State Clearinghouse No. 2021050261. The Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program has been prepared in conformance with Section 21081.6 of the Public Resources Code and Rancho Cucamonga Monitoring Requirements. Section 21081.6 states:
(a) When making findings required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 21081 or when adopting a mitigated negative declaration pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 21080, the following requirements shall apply:
(1) The public agency shall adopt a reporting or monitoring program for the changes made to the project or conditions of project approval, adopted in order to mitigate or avoid significant effects on the environment. The reporting or monitoring program shall be designed to ensure compliance during project implementation. For those changes which have been required or incorporated into the project at the request of a responsible agency or a public agency having jurisdiction by law over natural resources affected by the project, that agency shall, if so requested by the lead or responsible agency, prepare and submit a proposed reporting or monitoring program.
(2) The lead agency shall specify the location and custodian of the documents or other material which constitute the record of proceedings upon which its decision is based.

1.2 PROJECT LOCATION
The City of Rancho Cucamonga is in the Inland Empire in southwestern San Bernardino County, California.

The City is surrounded by developed municipalities to the west, south, and east including the cities of Upland, Ontario, and Fontana and a large area of rural unincorporated San Bernardino County to the north and east.

The northernmost portion of the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI) is adjacent to the San Bernardino National Forest. Interstate and regional access to the City is provided by Interstate 15 (I- 15), which runs in a general north-south direction and bisects the eastern portion of the City, and by State Route 210 (SR- 210), an east- west freeway that runs through the center of the City. The I -10 freeway also provides regional access and is located approximately 0.75-mile south of the City boundary.

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1.3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The project is an update of the City of Rancho Cucamonga’s General Plan. The General Plan is a state-required legal document that provides guidance to decision- makers regarding the allocation of resources and determining the future physical form and charac ter of development in the City and its SOI. It is the official statement of the City regarding the extent and types of development needed to achieve the community’s physical, economic, social, and environmental goals. Although the General Plan is composed of individual chapters that individually address a specific area of concern, the General Plan embodies a comprehensive and integrated planning approach for the jurisdiction.

The project includes the following elements that address all the required topics in state law:
 Land Use and Community Character
 Focus Areas
 Open Space
 Mobility and Access
 Housing
 Public Facilities and Services
 Resource Conservation
 Safety
 Noise
The General Plan Update would result in a n increase of 25,685 dwelling units, 57,566 residents, 6,802 square feet of retail/commercial space, 3,533 square feet of office space, and a reduction of 2,055 square feet of industrial/flex space, compared to existing conditions.

The City of Rancho Cucamonga is also proposing to update the City’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). The CAP identifies greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction measures that allow the City to continue reductions consistent with the State’s interim emissions reduction goal of lowering emissions.

1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

1.4.1 Impacts Considered No Impact or Less Than Significant The EIR identified various thresholds from the CEQA Guidelines among a number of environmental categories that would not significantly impact the proposed project as identified in Chapter 5, Environmental Analysis, and therefore, did not require mitigation. Impacts to the following environmental resources were found to be less than significant or no impact:
 Aesthetics
 Energy
 Geology and Soil
 Hazards and Hazardous Materials
 Population, Housing, and Employment
 Public Services
 Recreation
 Tribal Cultural Resources

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 Hydrology and Water Quality
 Land Use and Planning
 Mineral Resources

 Utilities and Service Systems
 Wildlife

1.4.2 Unavoidable Significant Adverse Impacts
The following impacts would remain significant and unavoidable after implementation of standard conditions of approval, as identified in the EIR:
 Aesthetics (cumulative impacts only)
 Agriculture and Forestry Resources
 Air Quality
 Biological Resources
 Cultural Resources
 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
 Mineral Resources (cumulative impacts only)
 Noise
 Transportation
 Wildfire (cumulative impacts only)

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2.1 CATEGORIZED MITIGATION MEASURES/MATRIX
Standard conditions of approval, and General Plan policies have been categorized in matrix format, as shown in Table 1, Mitigation Monitoring Requirements . The matrix identifies the environmental factor, specific standard conditions of approval and General Plan policies, schedule, and responsible monitor. The mitigation matrix will serve as the basis for scheduling the implementation of, and compliance with, all standard conditions of approval and General Plan policies.

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Table 1 Mitigation Monitoring Requirements
Standard Conditions of Approval/General Plan Policies
Responsibility for
Implementation Timing
Responsibility for
Monitoring
Monitor
(Signature Required)
(Date of Compliance)
As a result of public and staff review of the Draft EIR, a single mitigation measure has been added to the Draft EIR. The mitigation measure will be as follows:

MM-1 The City shall apply all applicable standard conditions of approval to future development within the City.

City of Rancho Cucamonga
Community Development
Department
At the time future
development is proposed
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Development
Department

AESTHETICS
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.1-1: A detailed on-site lighting plan, including a photometric diagram, shall be submitted by project applicants and reviewed and approved by the Planning Director and Police Department prior to the issuance of building permits. Such plan shall indicate style, illumination, location, height, and method of shielding so as not to adversely affect adjacent properties.

Future Project Applicant Prior to issuance of building
permits
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department,
Rancho Cucamonga
Police Department

5.1-2: Solar access easements shall be dedicated for the purpose of assuming that each lot or dwelling unit shall have the right to receive sunlight across adjacent lots or units for use of a solar energy system. The easements may be contained in a Declaration of Restrictions for the subdivision which shall be recorded concurrently with the recordation of the final map or issuance of permits, whichever comes first. The easements shall prohibit the casting of shadows by vegetation, structures, fixtures, or any other object, except for utility wires and similar objects, pursuant to Development Code Section 17.08.060-G-

2. Future Project Applicant Concurrently with the
recordation of the final map
or issuance of permits,
whichever comes first
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
LC-1.2: Quality of Place. Ensure that new infill development is compatible with the existing, historic, and envisioned future character and scale of each neighborhood.

LC-1.3: Quality of Public Space. Require that new developments incorporate the adjacent street and open space network into their design to soften the transition between private and public realm and creating a greener more - human-scale experience.

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Standard Conditions of Approval/General Plan Policies
Responsibility for
Implementation Timing
Responsibility for
Monitoring
Monitor
(Signature Required)
(Date of Compliance)
LC-1.5: Master Planning. When planning a site, there must be meaningful efforts to master plan the site so as to ensure a well-structured network and block pattern with sufficient access and connectivity to achieve the placemaking goals of this General Plan.

LC-1-8: Public Art. Require new construction to participate in the acquisition and installation of public art in accordance with the City Public Arts Program.

LC-1.11:Compatible Development. Allow flexibility in density and intensity to address specific site conditions and ensure compatibility of new development with adjacent context.

LC-1.12: Adaptive Reuse. Support the adaptive reuse of historic properties consistent with neighborhood character.

C-1.14: Street Amenities and Lighting. Modify pedestrian and street amenities, lighting styles, and intensities to be compatible with the character of the surrounding neighborhoods.

LC-2.1: Building Orientation. Require that buildings be sited near the street and organized with the more active functions —entries, lobbies, bike parking, offices, employee break rooms, and outdoor lunch areas—facing toward and prominently visible from the street and visitor parking areas.

LC-2.2: Active Frontages. Require new development abutting streets and other public spaces to face the public realm with attractive building facades and entries to encourage walking, biking, and public transit as primary —not “alternative”— mobility modes.

LC-2.4: Tree planting. Require the planting of trees that shade the sidewalks, buffer pedestrians from traffic, define the public spaces of streets, and moderate

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high temperatures and wind speeds throughout the city.

LC-2.5: Gradual Transitions. Where adjacent to existing and planned residential housing, require that new development of a larger form or intensity transition gradually to complement the adjacent residential uses.

LC-2.6: Commercial Requirements. Require development projects in non- residential and mixed-use areas to provide for enhanced pedestrian activity through the following techniques:
 Require that the ground floor of buildings where retail uses are allowed have a minimum 15 feet floor-to-floor height.
 Require that the ground floor of the building occupy the majority of the lot’s frontage, with exceptions for vehicular access where necessary.  Require that most of the linear ground floor retail frontage (where such occurs) be visually and physically “open” to the street, incorporating windows and other design treatments to create an engaging street frontage.  Minimize vehicle movements across the sidewalk.
 Allow for and encourage the development of outdoor plazas and dining areas.

LC-2.7: Shared Parking. Encourage structured and shared parking solutions that ensure that parking lots do not dominate street frontages and are screened from public views whenever possible.

LC-2.8: Landscaping. Require development projects to incorporate high quality landscaping to extend and enhance the green space network of the city.

LC-4.1: Neighborhood Preservation. Preserve and enhance the character of existing residential neighborhoods.

LC-4.3: Complete Neighborhoods. Strive to ensure that all new neighborhoods,

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and infill development within or adjacent to existing neighborhoods, are complete and well structured such that the physical layout and land use mix promote walking to services, biking, and transit use and have the following characteristics.  Be organized into human-scale, walkable blocks, with a high level of connectivity for pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles.
 Be organized in relation to one or more focal activity centers, such as a park, school, civic building, or neighborhood retail, such that most homes are no further than one-quarter mile.
 Require development patterns such that 60 percent of dwelling units are within one-half mile walking distance to neighborhood goods and services, such as markets, cafes, restaurants, churches, dry cleaners, laundromats, farmers markets, banks, hair care, pharmacies, and similar uses.  access to goods and services within a safe, comfortable walking distance.  Provide as wide a diversity of housing styles and types as possible, appropriate to the existing neighborhood context.
 Provide homes with entries and windows facing the street, with driveways and garages generally deemphasized in the streetscape composition.

LC-4.6: Block Length. Require new neighborhoods to be designed with blocks no longer than 600 feet nor a perimeter exceeding 1,800 feet. Exceptions can be made if mid-block pedestrian and bicycle connections are provided, or if the neighborhood is on the edge of town and is intended to have a rural or semi-rural design character.

LC-4.10: Neighborhood Transitions. Require that new neighborhoods provide appropriate transitions in scale, building type, and density between different General Plan designations, place types, and community planning areas.

LC-4.11: Conventional Suburban Neighborhood Design. Discourage the construction of new residential neighborhoods that are characterized by sound

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wall frontages on any streets, discontinuous cul-de-sac street patterns, long block lengths, single building and housing types, and lack of walking or biking access to parks, schools, goods, and services.

LC-4.12: Neighborhood Edges. Encourage neighborhood edges along street corridors to be characterized by active frontages, whether single-family or multifamily residential, or ground-floor, neighborhood-service non-residential uses. Where this is not possible due to existing developme nt patterns or envisioned streetscape character, neighborhood edges shall be designed based on the following policies:
• Strongly discourage the construction of new gated communities except in semi-rural neighborhoods.
• Allow the use of sound walls to buffer new neighborhoods from existing sources of noise pollution such as railroads and limited access roadways. • Prohibit the use of sound walls to buffer residential areas from arterial or collector streets. Instead design approaches such as building setbacks, landscaping and other techniques shall be used.
• In the case where sound walls might be acceptable, require pedestrian access points to improve access from the neighborhoods to nearby commercial, educational, and recreational amenities; activity centers; and transit stops. • Discourage the use of signs to distinguish one residential project from another. Strive for neighborhoods to blend seamlessly into one another. If provided, gateways should be landmarks and urban design focal points, not advertisements for home builders.

LC-5.5: Foothill Boulevard as a Gateway. Transform the ends of Foothill Boulevard near the city boundary to a unique gateway environment through street improvements and coordinated infill development along both sides of Foothill Boulevard.

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LC-7.3: Campus Design. Encourage employment areas to be developed like a college campus, with buildings oriented toward an internal roadway, buffer landscaping along the perimeter, and ample opportunities for paths and trails connecting to the City system as well as relaxation areas for employees.

LC-7.6: Loading Docks. Require that parking lots, loading docks, outdoor storage, and processing be located behind or beside buildings, not in front, and be screened from public views.

OS-1.4: Design Character and Public Art. Require neighborhood parks, greens, and playgrounds to be designed as an integral element of their planning community, reflecting the design character, art, and culture of that neighborhood, center, or district.

OS-2.8: Art and Education. Require public art, education, and recreation features on trails, where appropriate.

MA-2.5: Context. Ensure that complete streets applications integrate the neighborhood and community identity into the street design. This can include special provisions for pedestrians and bicycles.

RC-1.1: View Corridors. Protect and preserve existing signature public views of the mountains and the valleys along roadways, open space corridors, and at other key locations.

RC-1.2: Orient toward View Corridors. Encourage new development to orient views toward view corridors, valley, and mountains.

C-1.3: Transfer of Development Rights. Allow the transfer of development rights from conservation areas to select development areas throughout the city and sphere of influence to protect hillsides, natural resources, and views and to

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avoid hazards and further the City’s conservation goals.

RC-1.4: Dark Sky. Limit light pollution from outdoor sources, especially in the rural, neighborhood, hillside, and open spaces to maintain darkness for night sky viewing.

RC-1.5: Transit Corridor Views. Require that new development along major transit routes and travel corridors include 360° project design and landscape or design screening of outdoor activity and storage, including views from the transit routes and travel corridors.

RC-1.6: Hillside Grading. Grading of hillsides shall be minimized, following natural landform to the maximum extent possible. Retaining walls shall be discouraged and, if necessary, screened from view.

AIR QUALITY
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5.3-1: The City shall ensure that discretionary development will incorporate best management practices (BMPs) to reduce emissions to be less than applicable thresholds. These BMPs include but are not limited to the most recent South Coast AQMD recommendations for construction BMPs (per South Coast AQMD’s CEQA Air Quality Handbook, South Coast AQMD’s Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan for the 2016 AQMP, and SCAG’s Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan for the 2020-2045 RTP/SCS, or as otherwise identified by South Coast AQMD).

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5.3-2: Applicants for future discretionary development projects that would generate construction-related emissions that exceed applicable thresholds, will include, but are not limited to, the mitigation measures recommended by South Coast AQMD (in its CEQA Air Q uality Handbook or otherwise), to the extent feasible and applicable to the project. The types of measures shall include but are Future Project Applicant Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
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not limited to: maintaining equipment per manufacturer specifications; lengthening construction duration to minimize number of vehicle and equipment operating at the same time; requiring use of construction equipment rated by the EPA as having Tier 3 (model year 2006 or newer) or Tier 4 (model year 2008 or newer) emissions limits, applicable for engines between 50 and 750 horsepower; and using electric -powered or other alternative-fueled equipment in place of diesel-powered equipment (whenever feasible). Ti er 3 equipment can achieve average emissions reductions of 57 percent for NOx, 84 percent for VOC, and 50 percent for particulate matter compared to Tier 1 equipment. Tier 4 equipment can achieve average emissions reductions of 71 percent for NOx, 86 percent for VOC, and 96 percent for particulate matter compared to Tier 1 equipment.

5.3-3: The City shall ensure that discretionary development that will generate fugitive dust emissions during construction activities will, to the extent feasible, incorporate BMPs that exceed South Coast AQMD’s Rule 403 requirements to reduce emissions to be less than applicable thresholds.

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5.3-4: Applicants for future discretionary development projects which will generate construction-related fugitive dust emissions that exceed applicable thresholds will include, but are not limited to, the mitigation measures recommended by South Coast AQMD’s CEQA Air Quality Handbook, to the extent feasible and applicable:
• The area disturbed by clearing, grading, earth moving, or excavation operations shall be minimized to prevent excess amounts of dust. • Pre-grading/excavation activities shall include watering the area to be graded or excavated before commencement of grading or excavation operations.

Application of watering (preferably reclaimed, if available) should penetrate sufficiently to minimize fugi tive dust during grading activities. This measure can achieve PM10 reductions of 61 percent through application of water every three hours to disturbed areas.
• Fugitive dust produced during grading, excavation, and construction activities shall be controlled by the following activities:

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• All trucks shall be required to cover their loads as required by California Vehicle Section 23114. Covering loads and maintaining a freeboard height of 12 inches can reduce PM10 emissions by 91 percent.
• All graded and excavated material, exposed soil areas, and active portions of the construction site, including unpaved on-site roadways, shall be treated to prevent fugitive dust. Treatment shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, periodic watering, application of environmentally -safe soil stabilization materials, and/or roll-compaction as appropriate. Watering shall be done as often as necessary and reclaimed water shall be used whenever possible.

Application of water every three hours to disturbed areas can reduce PM 10 emissions by 61 percent.
• Graded and/or excavated inactive areas of the construction site shall be monitored at least weekly for dust stabilization. Soil stabilization methods, such as water and roll -compaction, and environmentally -safe dust control materials, shall be periodically applied
to portions of the construction site that
are inactive for over four days. If no further grading or excavation operations are planned for the area, the area should be seeded and watered until grass growth is evident, or periodically treated with e nvironmentally-safe dust suppressants, to prevent excessive fugitive dust. Replacement of ground cover in disturbed areas can reduce PM
10 emissions by 5 percent.
• Signs shall be posted on-site limiting traffic to 15 miles per hour or less. This measure can reduce associated PM10 emissions by 57 percent. • During periods of high winds (i.e., wind speed sufficient to cause fugitive dust to impact
adjacent properties), all clearing, grading, earth-moving, and excavation operations shall be curtailed to the degree necessary to prevent fugitive dust created by on-site activities and operations from being a nuisance or hazard off-site or on-site. The site superintendent/supervisor shall use his/her discretion in conjunction with South Coast AQMD when winds are excessive.

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• Adjacent streets and roads shall be swept at least once per day, preferably at the end of the day, if visible soil material is carried over to adjacent streets and roads.
• Personnel involved in grading operations, including contractors and subcontractors, should be advised to wear respiratory protection in accordance with California Division of Occupational Safety and Health regulations.

Applicable General Plan Policies
LC-1.1: Complete Places. Ensure that a broad range of recreational, commercial, education, and civic amenities are nearby and easily accessible to residents and workers in each neighborhood and each employment district.

LC-1.3: Quality of Public Space. Require that new development incorporate the adjacent street and open space network into their design to soften the transition between private and public realm and creat e a greener , more human -scale experience.

LC-1.4: Connectivity and Mobility. Work to complete a network of pedestrian - and bike-friendly streets and trails, designed in concert with adjacent land uses, using the public realm to provide more access options.

LC-1.9: Infill Development. Enable and encourage infill development with vacant and underutilized properties through flexible design requirements and potential incentives.

LC-1.12: Adaptive Reuse. Support the adaptive reuse of historic properties consistent with neighborhood character.

LC-1.13: Improved Public Realm. Require that new development extend the “walkable public realm” into previously vacant and/or parking- lot-dominant large

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LC-2.3: Streetscape. Enhance the pedestrian experience through streetscape improvements such as enhanced street lighting, street trees, and easement dedications to increase the widths of the sidewalks, provide side access parking lanes, and other pedestrian and access amenities.

LC-2.4: Tree Planting. Require the planting of trees that shade the sidewalks, buffer pedestrians from traffic, define the public spaces of streets, and moderate high temperatures and wind speeds throughout the city.

LC-2.11: Park-Once. Allow and encourage strategies that enable adjacent uses and properties to flexibly share parking facilities, so that users can park once and pursue multiple activities on foot before returning to their car, such as:
 Unbundling parking from development.
 Considering parking “districts” demonstrating sufficient parking within a convenient walking distance.

LC-4.2: Connected Neighborhoods. Require that each new increment of residential development make all possible street, trail, and open space connections to existing adjoining parcels.

LC-4.3: Complete Neighborhoods. Strive to ensure that all new neighborhoods, and infill development within or adjacent to existing neighborhoods, are complete and well structured such that the physical layout and land use mix promote walking to services, biking and transit use, and have the following characteristics:
 Be organized into human- scale, walkable blocks, with a high level of connectivity for pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles.
 Be organized in relation to one or more focal activity centers, such as a park, school, civic building, or neighborhood retail, such that most homes are no

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further than one-quarter mile.
 Require development patterns such that 60 percent of dwelling units are within one-half mile walking distance to neighborhood goods and services, such as markets, cafes, restaurants, churches, dry cleaners, laundromats, farmers markets, banks, hair care, pharmacies, and similar uses.  Access to goods and services within a safe, comfortable walking distance.  Provide as wide a diversity of housing styles and types as possible, and appropriate to the existing neighborhood context.
 Provide homes with entries and windows facing the street, with driveways and garages generally deemphasized in the streetscape composition.

LC-4.8: Solar Orientation. Street, block, and lot layouts should orient a majority of lots within 20 degrees of a north-south orientation for increased energy conservation.

LC-4.11: Conventional Suburban Neighborhood Design. Discourage the construction of new residential neighborhoods that are characterized by sound wall frontages on any streets, discontinuous cul-de-sac street patterns, long block lengths, single building and housing types, and lack of walking or biking access to parks, schools, goods, and services.

LC-5.1: Improved Street Network. Systematically extend and complete a network of complete streets to ensure a high-level of multi-modal connectivity within and between adjacent Neighborhoods, Centers and Districts. Plan and implement targeted improvements to the quality and number of pedestrian and bicycle routes within the street and trail network, prioritizing connections to schools, parks, and neighborhood activity centers.

LC-5.2:

Connections Between Development Projects. Require the
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development projects and discourage the use of cul -de-sacs or other dead -end routes.

LC-5.3: Green Public Realm. Ensure that a significant tree canopy and landscaping are provided along corridors and linkages between land uses, to provide shade and wind protection for pedestrians and bicyclists, and to define these corridors as the “outdoor living rooms” of the city.

LC-5.4: Multifamily Development. Focus new multifamily housing development along corridors between commercial nodes and centers and ensure that it is well connected to adjoining neighborhoods and centers by high- quality walking and biking routes.

LC-5.6: Foothill Boulevard as a Connector. Transition Foothill Boulevard from a “divider” to a “connector” that brings the north and south sides together. Ensure that new development along the Foothill Corridor generates a high -quality pedestrian- and transit-oriented environment and a concentrati on of commercial and civic amenities and community gathering places for residents from all parts of the city.

LC-6.1: Diverse Centers. Encourage the development of neighborhood-serving, community-serving,
and city -serving centers that address the full range
community needs and market sectors.

LC-6.3: Evolving Centers. Encourage the improvement of existing commercial centers to provide more active, human-scale environments and community gathering places, including the potential for infill housing and office use.

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LC-6.5: Walkable Environments. Centers should include very walkable and pedestrian-friendly streets with active building frontages along primary corridors and internal streets. In some cases, side access lanes may be inserted between existing major streets and building frontages, providing a low-speed environment that is very safe and comfortable for pedestrians and bicyclists, with pedestrian- oriented building frontages.

LC-7.2: Unify and Connect Development. Require that new development in the 21st Century Employment District land use designation unify and connect development along the Haven Avenue Corridor.

LC-7.5: Adaptive Industrial Reuse. Encourage adaptive reuse with residential and live/work units, and local serving commercial, in existing industrial structures, particularly in the Central South Community Planning Area.

OS-2.1: Trail Corridors. Extend, improve and complete the multi -purpose trail network, wherever possible, by utilizing existing flood control channel and utility corridor rights-of-way as public trail corridors.

OS-2.2: Connectivity. Connect trails in Rancho Cucamonga to trails in the San Bernardino National Forest and other hillside open space areas.

OS-2.3: Trailheads. Provide trailhead amenities such as parking, restrooms, information boards, and maps.

OS-2.4: Equestrian Trails. Continue to maintain and pursue the development of planned trails and facilities for equestrian use.

OS-2.6: Design for Heat. Consider extreme heat in the design of streets, parks, trails, and playgrounds to support activity throughout the year and in all weather

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conditions by including shade trees, shade structures, water fountains, splash pads, lighting for night play in most spaces.

OS-2.7: Access. Require new development to provide access to existing or future trails and provide appropriate trail amenities (e.g., benches, drinking fountains, hitching posts, bike stands, and other amenities).

MA-1.2: Rancho Cucamonga Station Redevelopment. Support redevelopment in and around the Rancho Cucamonga Station to support transit -oriented development.

MA-1.4: Local Mobility Hub. Require new development at mobility hubs and key stops along the future bus rapid transit and future circulatory system to facilitate first mile/last mile connectivity to neighborhoods.

MA-1.5: Provide Mobility Options. Provide roadway connections and local mobility hubs designed to capture 80 percent of the population and employment south of Base Line Road.

MA-1.6: Transit Boulevard Implementation. Require high-quality transit streets to not only account for how transit is impacted by the geometry of the corridor, but also by signal timing, signal phasing, turns, and other operations that may jeopardize the quality of service.

MA-2.1: Complete Streets. Require that new roadways include provisions for complete streets, balancing the needs of all users of all ages and capabilities.

MA-2.3: Street Connectivity. Require connectivity and accessibility to a mix of land uses that meets residents’ daily needs within walking distance.

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MA-2.5: Context. Ensure that complete streets applications integrate the neighborhood and community identity into the street design. This can include special provisions for pedestrians and bicycles.

MA-2-6: Roadway Scale. Balance roadway size and design configuration to ensure that vehicular speeds, volumes and turning movements do not compromise the safety and comfort of pedestrians and bicyclists.

MA-2.9: Block Pattern. Require development projects to arrange streets in an interconnected block pattern, so that pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers are not forced onto arterial streets for inter - or intra- neighborhood travel (see Placemaking toolkit in Vol. 4 for more information).

MA-2.10: Master Planning. Master plan sites so as to ensure a well -structured network and block pattern with sufficient access and connectivity, especially in all focus areas, including the Cucamonga Town Center, Etiwanda Heights Town Center, and the Southeast Industrial Area.

MA-2.11: Transportation Demand Management. Require new projects to implement Transportation Demand Management strategies, such as employer - provided transit pass/parking credit, low-speed communications infrastructure for telecommuting, carpooling incentive, etc.

MA-2.12: Healthy Mobility. Provide pedestrian facilities and class II buffered bike lanes (or separated bikeways) on auto-priority streets where feasible to promote active transportation.

MA-3.1:

Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks. Maintain the Active Transportation Plan supporting safe routes to school and a convenient network of identified pedestrian and bicycle routes with access to major employment centers, shopping

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districts, regional transit centers, and residential neighborhoods.

MA-3.2: Traffic Safety. Prioritize transportation system improvements that help eliminate traffic-related fatalities and severe injury collisions.

MA-3.3: Vulnerable User Safety. Prioritize pedestrian improvements in the Pedestrian Priority Area shown on Figure 8 to promote safety in the southwest area of the city.

MA-5.1: Land Use Supporting Reduced VMT. Work to reduce VMT through land use planning, enhanced transit access, localized attractions, and access to non-automotive modes.

MA-5.3: Funding. Remain flexible in the pursuit and adoption of transportation funding mechanisms that fund innovative transportation solutions.

MA-5.4: Intelligent Systems Preparation. Upgrade the City’s ATMS [Advanced Traffic Management System] and communications systems to ensure that the City meets the intelligent transportation system demands of today while planning for future demands associated with AVs and CVs.

PF-6.1: Recycling. Encourage recycling and organics collection and processing in all sectors of the community to divert items from entering landfills.

PF-6.2: Refuse Facilities. Consult with public agencies and private contractors to ensure adequate organics processing facilities are available.

RC-5.1: Pollutant Sources. Minimize increases of new air pollutant emissions in the city and encourage the use of advance control technologies and clean manufacturing techniques.

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hospitals, and childcare facilities and land uses within 500 feet of land uses that are considered large emitters.

RC-5.3: Barriers and Buffers. Require design features such as site and building orientation, trees or other landscaped barriers, artificial barriers, ventilation and filtration, construction, and operational practices to reduce air quality impacts during construction and operation of large stationary and mobile sources.

RC-5.4: Health Risk Assessment. Consider the health impacts of development of sensitive receptors within 500 feet of a freeway, rail line, arterial, collector or transit corridor sources using health risk assessments to understand potential impacts.

RC-5.5: Community Benefit Plan . Require that any land use generating or accommodating more than 100 trucks per day, more than 40 trucks with operating transport refrigeration units (TRUs) per day, or where TRU unit operations exceed 300 hours per week, provide a community benefit plan demonstrating an offset to community impacts of the truck traffic.

RC-5.6: New Sensitive Receptors Near Existing Industrial Uses. Avoid placing homes, schools, hospitals, and childcare facilities within 1,000 feet of a land use that accommodates more than 100 trucks per day, more than 40 trucks with operating transport refrigeration units (TRUs) per day, or where TRU unit operations exceed 300 hours per week.

RC-5.7:

New Localized Air Pollution Sources Near Existing Sensitive Receptors. Avoid placing land uses that accommodate more than 100 trucks per day, more than 40 trucks with operating transport refrigeration units (TRUs) per day, or where TRU unit operations exceed 300 hours per week within 1,000 feet of homes, schools, hospitals, and childcare facilities.

RC-5.8: Truck Hook -Ups at New Industrial or Commercial Developments .

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Require new industrial or commercial developments at which heavy -duty diesel trucks idle on-site to install electric truck hook -ups in docks, bays, and parking areas.

RC-5.9: Clean and Green Industry . Prioritize non-polluting industries and companies using zero or low air pollution technologies.

RC-5.10: Dust and Odor . Require new construction to include measures to minimize dust and odor during construction and operation.

RC-6.1: Climate Action Plan. Maintain and implement a Climate Action Plan (CAP) that provides best management practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

RC-6.2: Renewable Energy. Encourage renewable energy installations and facilitate green technology and business.

RC-6.3: Reduce Energy Consumption. Encourage a reduction in community - wide energy consumption.

RC-6.4: Urban Forest. Protect the city’s healthy trees and plant new ones to provide shade, carbon sequestration, and purify the air.

RC-6.5: GHG Reduction Goal. Reduce emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.

RC-6.6: Co-benefits. Prioritize the development and implementation of GHG reduction measures that also achieve economic, health, social, environmental, and other co-benefits for the City and its residents and businesses.

RC-6.7: Structural Equity. Encourage GHG reduction and climate adaptation measures such as trail completion, equipment upgrade, sidewalk connectivity,

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tree planting, and buffers be included in the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) to improve areas of the City where these features are lacking.

RC-6.8: Reduce Vehicle Trips. Require Transportation Demand Management strategies such as employer provided transit pass/parking credit, bicycle parking, bike lockers, high- speed communications infrastructure for telecommuting, carpooling incentive, etc. for large office, commercial, and industrial uses.

RC-6.9: Access. Require pedestrian, vehicle, and transit connectivity of streets, trails, and sidewalks, as well as between complementary adjacent land uses.

RC-6.10: Green Building. Encourage the construction of buildings that are certified LEED or equivalent, emphasizing technologies that reduce GHG emissions.

RC-6.11: Climate-Appropriate Building Types. Encourage alternative building types that are more sensitive to and designed for passive heating and cooling within the arid environment found in Rancho Cucamonga.

RC-6.12: Reduced Water Supplies . When reviewing development proposals, consider the possibility of constrained future water supplies and require enhanced water conservation measures.

RC-6.13:

Designing for Warming Temperatures. When reviewing development proposals, encourage applicants and designers to consider warming temperatures in the design of cooling systems.

RC-6.14: Designing for Changing Precipitation Patterns . When reviewing development proposals, encourage applicants to consider stormwater control strategies and systems for sensitivity to changes in precipitation regimes and consider adjusting those strategies to accommodate future precipitation regimes.

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RC-6.15: Heat Island Reductions . Require heat island reduction strategies in new developments such as light -colored paving, permeable paving, right -sized parking requirements, vegetative cover and planting, substantial tree canopy coverage, and south and west side tree planting.

RC-6.16: Public Realm Shading. Strive to improve shading in public spaces, such as bus stops, sidewalks and public parks and plazas, through the use of trees, shelters, awnings, gazebos, fabric shading and other creative cooling strategies.

RC-6.17: Off-site GHG Mitigation. Allow the use of creative mitigation efforts such as offsite mitigation and in lieu fee programs as mechanisms for reducing project-specific GHG emissions.

RC-6.18: Water Sources with Low GHG Emissions. Encourage local and regional water utilities to obtain water from sources with low or no GHG emissions.

RC-7.1: Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging on City Property. As funding is available, encourage the installation of publicly available electric vehicle charging stations at City-owned buildings, facilities, property, and in the public right-of-way.

RC-7.2: New EV Charging. Require new multifamily residential, commercial, office, and industrial development to include charging stations, or include the wiring for them.

RC-7.3: EV Charging Retrofits . Encourage existing development to retrofit to include charging stations.

RC-7.4: New Off -Road Equipment . When feasible, require that off -road equipment such as forklifts and yard tugs necessary for the operations of all new commercial and industrial developments be electric or fueled using clean fuel

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RC-7.5: Municipal Vehicle Fleet. Reduce fossil fuel consumption of the City’s vehicle fleet by increasing the number of electric or zero emissions vehicles.

RC-7.6: Efficiency Retrofits. Encourage existing private property owners to implement energy efficiency retrofits during substantial improvement as defined by the California Building Code.

RC-7.7: Sustainable Design. Encourage sustainable building and site design that meets the standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Sustainable Sites, Living Building Challenge, or similar certification.

RC-7.8:

Farmers Market, Fork to Table. Support microscale agriculture and farmers markets, and similar methods of encouraging locally grown and consumed produce.

RC-7.9: Passive Solar Design. Require new buildings to incorporate energy efficient building and site design strategies for the arid environment that include appropriate solar orientation, thermal mass, use of natural daylight and ventilation, and shading.

RC-7.10: Alternative Energy. Continue to promote the incorporation of alternative energy generation (e.g., solar, wind, biomass) in public and private development.

RC-7.11 : Community Development Subdivisions. When reviewing applications for new subdivisions, require residences be oriented along an east - west access, minimizing western sun exposure, to maximize energy efficiency.

RC-7.12: Solar Access. Prohibit new development and renovations that impair adjacent buildings’ solar access, unless it can be demonstrated that the shading

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benefits substantially offset the impacts of solar energy generation potential.

RC-7.13: Energy-Efficient Infrastructure. Whenever possible, use energy - efficient models and technology when replacing or providing new city infrastructure such as streetlights, traffic signals, water conveyance pumps, or other public infrastructure.

BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.4-1: Special status plant and wildlife species have the potential to occur within the proposed General Plan Update Study Area. Any project that involves the removal of habitat must consider if any special status species (e.g., Threatened or Endangered species, CNPS List 1B and 2 plants, or species protected under Section 15380 of CEQA) are potentially present on the project site and if the project impacts could be considered significant by the City. If potential habitat is present in an area, focused surveys shall be conducted prior to construction activities in order to document the presence or absence of a species on the project site. Botanical surveys shall be conducted during the appropriate blooming period for a species. If no special status species are found on the project site, no additional action is warranted. If special status species are found, appropriate mitigation would be required in coordination with the City , consistent with its
performance criteria of mitigating lost habitat at a ratio no less than one to one (one acre restored for every acre impacted).

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5.4-2: Any project within the proposed General Plan Update Stud y Area that impacts a Federally listed species, based on a biological survey or other analysis of the project, shall be required to secure take authorization through Section 7 or Section 10 of the Federal Endangered Species Act (FESA) prior to project implementation. Compensation for impacts to the listed species and their habitat shall be mitigated at a ratio no less than one to one (one acre restored for every acre impacted). Project applicants shall be required to plan, implement, monitor, Qualified Biologist Prior to issuance of the first
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and maintain the mitigated habitat according to the requirements of the Biological Opinion (Section 7) or Habitat Conservation Plan (Section 10) for the project. Prior to issuance of the first action and/or permit which would allow for site disturbance (e.g., grading permit), a detailed mitigation plan shall be prepared by a qualified biologist for approval by the City of Rancho Cucamonga and the USFWS, and shall include: (1) the responsibilities and qualifications of the personnel to implement and supervis e the plan; (2) site selection; (3) site preparation and planting implementation; (4) a schedule; (5) maintenance plan/guidelines; (6) a monitoring plan; and (7) long-term preservation requirements.

5.4-3: Any project within the proposed General Plan Update Study Area that impacts a State-listed Threatened or Endangered species shall be required to obtain take authorization (through an Incidental Take Permit) pursuant to the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) and Section 2081 of the California Fish and Game Code. If the species is also listed under the FESA, a consistency finding per Section 2080.1 of CESA is issued when a project receives the USFWS Biological Opinion. Compensation for impacts to the listed species and their habitat shall be mitigated at a ratio no less than one to one (one acre restored for every acre impacted). Project applicants shall be required to plan, implement, monitor, and maintain the mitigated habitat according to the r equirements of the 2080
CESA process. Prior to issuance of the first action and/or permit which would allow for site disturbance (e.g., grading permit), a detailed mitigation plan shall be prepared by a qualified biologist for approval by the City of Rancho Cucamonga and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and shall include:
(1) the responsibilities and qualifications of the personnel to implement and supervise the plan; (2) site selection; (3)site preparation and planting implementation; (4) a schedule; (5) a maintenance p lan/guidelines; (6) a monitoring plan; and (7) long-term preservation requirements.

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action and/or permit which
would allow for site
disturbance
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.4-4: To avoid conflicts with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Bald/Golden Eagle Protection Act, construction activities involving vegetation removal shall be conducted between September 16 and March 14. If construction occurs inside the Qualified Biologist Vegetation removal shall be
be conducted between
September 16 and Match 14;
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peak nesting season (between March 15 and September 15), a preconstruction survey (or possibly multiple surveys) by a qualified biologist is recommended prior to construction activities to identify any active nesting locations. If the biologist does not find any active nests within the project site, the construction work shall be allowed to proceed. If the biologist finds an active nest within the project site and determines that the nest may be impacted, the biologist shall delineate an appropriate buffer zone around the nest; the size of the buffer zone shall depend on the affected species and the type of construction activity. Any active nests observed during the survey shall be mapped on an aerial photograph. Only construction activities (if any) that have been approved by a biological monitor shall take place within the buffer zone until the nest is vacated. The biologist shall serve as a construction monitor when construction activities take place near active nest areas to ensure that no inadvertent impacts on these nests occur. Results of the pre-construction survey and any subsequent monitoring shall be provided to the California Department of Fish and
Wildlife and the City.
shall be conducted during
peak nesting season (March
15 and September 15)

5.4-5: A jurisdictional delineation shall be conducted if a project will impact jurisdictional resources. Permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) shall be required for impacts on areas within these agencies’ jurisdiction. Acquisition and implementation of the permits may require mitigation. Compensation for impacts to jurisdictional resources shall be mitigated at a ratio no less than one to one (one acre restored for every acre impacted). Project applicants shall be required to plan, implement, monitor, and maintain the mitigated jurisdictional resource according to the requirements of USACE and RWQCB. Prior to issuance of the first action and/or permit that would allow for site disturbance (e.g., gradi ng permit), a detailed mitigation plan shall be prepared by a qualified biologist for approval by the City of Rancho Cucamonga and the appropriate resource agencies, and shall include:
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disturbance
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implementation; (4) a schedule; (5) maintenance plan/guidelines; (6) a monitoring plan; and (7) long-term preservation requirements.

5.4-6: The Porter-Cologne Act and Sections 1600 to 1616 of the California Fish and Game Code protect “waters of the State.” Agreements (Streambed Alteration Agreements) from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) shall be required for impacts on areas in CDF W’s jurisdiction. Acquisition and implementation of the agreement may require mitigation. Compensation for impacts to CDFW resources shall be mitigated at a ratio no less than one to one (one acre restored for every acre impacted). Project applicants shall be required to plan, implement, monitor, and maintain the mitigation areas according to CDFW requirements. Prior to issuance of the first action and/or permit which would allow for site disturbance (e.g., grading permit), a detailed mitigation plan shall be prepared by a qualified biologist for approval by the City of Rancho Cucamonga and CDFW
, and shall include: (1) the responsibilities and qualifications of the personnel to implement and supervise the plan; (2) site selection; (3) site preparation and planting implementation; (4) a schedule; (5) maintenance plan/guidelines; (6) a monitoring plan; and (7) long -term preservation requirements.

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would allow for site
disturbance
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Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.4-7: The City of Rancho Cucamonga shall require a habitat connectivity/wildlife corridor evaluation for future development projects that may impact existing connectivity areas and wildlife linkages identified in Figure 5.4- 6, Wildlife Movement Linkages Map. The results of the evaluation shall be incorporated into the project’s biological report required under standard condition of approval 5.4-

1. The evaluation shall also identify project design features that would reduce potential impacts and maintain habi tat and wildlife movement. To this end, the City shall incorporate the following measures, to the extent practicable, for projects impacting wildlife movement corridors:
 Adhere to low density zoning standards
 Encourage clustering of development
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 Avoid known sensitive biological resources
 Provide shielded lighting adjacent to sensitive habitat areas  Encourage development plans that maximize wildlife movement  Provide buffers between development and wetland/riparian areas  Protect wetland/riparian areas through regulatory agency permitting process  Encourage wildlife-passable fence designs (e.g., 3 -strand barbless wire fence) on property boundaries
 Encourage preservation of native habitat on the undeveloped remainder of developed parcels
 Minimize road/driveway development to help prevent loss of habitat due to roadkill and habitat loss
 Use native, drought-resistant plant species in landscape design  Encourage participation in local/regional recreational trail design efforts.

Applicable General Plan Policies
RC-3.1: Sensitive Habitat. Encourage the preservation of the integrity of sensitive land resources that have significant native vegetation and/or habitat value such as riparian habitat areas, creek corridors, Riversidean Alluvial Fan Sage Scrub (RAFSS), wetlands, and sensitive wildl ife habitat that supports biological resources.

RC-3.2: Biological Preserves. Allow and encourage the expansion of sensitive biological preserve areas (e.g., North Etiwanda Preserve, Day Creek Preserve, and San Sevaine Preserve) and other important habitat areas with an emphasis on wildlife connectivity between habitats and connectivity to the national forest.

RC-3.3: Wildlife Corridors. Encourage the creation, maintenance, and protection of open space areas that provide strategic wildlife corridors and vital

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RC-3.4: Landscape Design. Encourage new development to incorporate native vegetation materials into landscape places and prohibit the use of species known to be invasive according to the California Invasive Plant Inventory.

RC-3.5: Buffers from New Development. Require new developments adjacent to identified plant and wildlife habitat areas to establish and maintain a protective buffer.

RC-3.6: Grading and Vegetation Removal. Limit grading and vegetation removal of new development activities to the minimum extent necessary for construction and to reduce erosion and sedimentation.

RC-3.7: Urban Forestry Plan. Minimize damage associated with wind- and fire- related hazards and risks and address climate change and urban heat island effects through the development of an urban forestry plan that addresses a proper and appropriate landscaping, plant and tree selection and replacement, and planting and vegetation management techniques.

CULTURAL RESOURCES
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.5-1: If a future project pursuant to the General Plan Update contains a designated Historical Landmark, the site shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the applicable Historic Landmark Alteration Permit. Any further modifications to the site including, but not limited to, exterior alterations and/or interior alterations which affect the exterior of the buildings or structures, removal of landmark trees, demolition, relocation, reconstruction of buildings or structures, or changes to the site, shall
require a modification to the Certificate of
Appropriateness subject to Historic Preservation Commission review and approval.

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5.5-2: If human remains or funerary objects are encountered during any activities associated with the project, work in the immediate vicinity (within a 100-foot buffer of the find) shall cease and the County Coroner shall be contacted pursuant to State Health and Safety Code §7050.5 and that code enforced for the duration of the project.

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objects are encountered
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.5-3: If a building within the project area was constructed more than 50 years ago, the City will require a determination of whether the building, or site, could be considered historic. If the project is considered historic Chapter 17.18 Historic Preservation will apply.

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Development Department

5.5-4: Prior to any construction activities that may affect historical resources (i.e., structures 45 years or older), a historical resources assessment shall be performed by an architectural historian or historian who meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professionally Qualified Standards in architectural history or history.

This shall include a records search to determine if any resources that may be potentially affected by the project have been previously recorded, evaluated, and/or designated in the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Resources, or a local register. Following the records search, the qualified architectural historian shall cond uct a reconnaissance-level and/or intensive-
level survey in accordance with the California Office of Historic Preservation guidelines to identify any previously unrecorded potential historical resources that may be potentially affected by the proposed proj ect. Pursuant to the definition of a historical resource under CEQA, potential historical resources shall be evaluated under a developed historic context.

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Development Department

5.5-5: To ensure that projects requiring the relocation, rehabilitation, or alternation of a historical resource not impact its significant, the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for the Treatments of Historic Properties shall be used to the maximum extent possible. The application of the standards shall be overseen by a qualified architectural historian or historic architect meeting the Professionally Qualified Standards. Prior to any construction activities that may aff ect the historical resource, a report identifying and specifying the treatment of character -defining Qualified Historian Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
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5.5-6: If a proposed project would result in the demolition or significant alteration of historical resource, it cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level.

However, recordation of the resource prior to construction activities will assist in reducing adverse impacts to the resource to the greatest extent possible.

Recordation shall take the form of Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, or Historic American Landscape Survey documentation, and shall be performed by an architectural historian or historian who meets the Professionally Qualified Standards. Documentation shall include an architectural and historical narrative; medium- or large-format black and white photographs, negatives, and prints; and supplementary infor mation such as building plans and elevations, and/or historical photographs. Documentation shall be reproduced on archival paper and placed in appropriate local, state, or federal institutions. The specific scope and details of documentation would be developed at the project level.

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Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.5-7: If cultural resources that are eligible for listing to the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Resources, or a local register are identified within or adjacent to the proposed development, the construction limits shall be clearly flagged to ensure impacts to eligible cultural resources are avoided or minimized to the extent feasible. Prior to implementing construction activities, a qualified archaeologist shall verify that the flagging clearly delineates the construction limits and eligible resources to be avoided. Since the location of some eligible cultural resources is confidential, these resources will be flagged as environmentally sensitive areas.

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Development Department

5.5-8: To determine the archaeological sensitivity for discretionary projects within the city, an archaeological resources assessment shall be performed under the supervision of an archaeologist that meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professionally Qualified Standards (PQS) in either prehistoric or historic archaeology. The assessments shall include a California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS) records search and a search of the Sacred Lands Qualified Archaeologist Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
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File (SLF) maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC). The records searches shall determine if the proposed project has been previously surveyed for archaeological resources, identify and characterize the results of previous cultural resource surveys, and disclose any cultural resources that have been recorded and/or evaluated. A Phase I pedestrian survey shall be undertaken in areas that are undeveloped to locate any surface cultural materials.  If potentially significant archaeological resources are identified through an archaeological
resources assessment, and impacts to these resource cannot be avoided, a Phase II Testing and Evaluation investigation shall be performed by an archaeologist who meets the PQS prior to any construction- related ground- disturbing activities to determine sig nificance. If resources determined significant or unique through Phase II testing, and site avoidance is not possible, appropriate site-specific mitigation measures shall be
established and undertaken. These might include a Phase III data recovery program that would be implemented by a qualified archaeologist and shall be performed in accordance with the Office of Historic Preservation’s Archaeological Resource Management Reports (ARMR): Recommended Contents and Format (1990) and Guidelines for Archaeological Research Designs (1991).
 If the archaeological assessment did not identify potentially significant archaeological resources within the proposed General Plan area but indicated the area to be highly sensitive for archaeological resources, a qualified archaeologist shall monitor all ground-disturbing construction and pre- construction activities in areas with previously
undisturbed soil. The
archaeologist shall inform all construction personnel prior to construction activities of the proper procedures in the event of an archaeological discovery.

The training shall be held in conjunction with the project’s initial onsite safety meeting, and shall explain the importance and legal basis for the protection of significant archaeological resources. In the event that archaeological resources (artifacts or features) are exposed during ground-disturbing

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activities, construction activities in the immediate vicinity of the discovery shall be halted while the resources are evaluated for significance by an archaeologist who meets the PQS. If the discovery proves to be significant, it shall be curated with a recognized scientific or educational repository.  If the archaeological assessment did not identify potentially significant archaeological resources, but indicates the area to be of medium sensitivity for archaeological resources, an archaeologist
who meets the PQS shall be
retained on an on -call basis. The archaeologist shall inform all construction personnel prior to construction activities about the proper procedures in the event of an archaeological discovery. The training shall be held in conjunction with the project’s initial on-site safety meeting,
and shall explain the
importance and legal basis for the protection of significant archaeological resources. In the event that archaeological resources (artifacts or features) are exposed during ground-disturbing activities, construction activities in the immediate vicinity of the discovery shall be halted while the on -call archaeologist is contacted. If the discovery proves to be significant, it shall be curated with a recognized scientific or education repository.

LD-1.12: Adaptive Reuse. Support the adaptive reuse of historic properties consistent with neighborhood character.

RC-4.1: Disturbance of Human Remains. In areas where there is a high chance that human remains may be present, the City will require proposed projects to conduct a survey to establish occurrence of human remains, and measures to prevent impacts to human remains if found.

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RC-4.2: Discovery of Human Remains. Require that any human remains discovered during implementation of public and private projects within the City be treated with respect and dignity and fully comply with the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and other appropriate laws.

RC-4.3: Protected Sites. Require sites with significant cultural resources to be protected.

RC-4.4: Preservation of Historic Resources. Encourage the preservation of historic resources, buildings, and landscape.

RC-4.5: Historic Buildings. Encourage the rehabilitation and reuse of older buildings.

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Standard Conditions of Approval

5.7-1: Development of projects pursuant to the General Plan Update shall comply with the City’s modifications to the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone Act that call for geotechnical investigations for all proposed structures designed for human occupancy within the expanded AP Zones, including a zone along a splay of the Cucamonga F
ault and another zone along the scarp at Red Hill. Also, geotechnical investigations are required for essential and critical facilities along the buried/uncertain segment of the Red Hill Fault, with a setback requirement of at least 50 feet.

Qualified
Geologist/Engineer
Prior to issuance of building
permits
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.7-2: All future building pads shall be seeded and irrigated for erosion control.

Detailed plans shall be included in the landscape and irrigation plans to be submitted for Planning Department approval prior to the issuance of building permits.

Project Applicant Prior to issuance of building
permits
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.7-3: A geological report shall be prepared for an individual project by a qualified engineer or geologist and submitted at the time of application for grading plan check.

Qualified
Geologist/Engineer
During grading plan check City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.7-4: The final grading plan, appropriate certifications and compaction reports shall be completed, submitted, and approved by the Building and Safety Official prior to the issuance of building permits.

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permits
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Cucamonga Community
Development Department,
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Building
Department

5.7-5: A separate grading plan check submittal is required for all new construction projects and for existing buildings where improvements being proposed will generate 50 cubic yards or more of combined cut and fill. The grading plan shall be prepared, stamped, and signed by a California registered Civil Engineer.

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Development Department

5.7-6: A soils report shall be prepared by a qualified engineer licensed by the State of California to perform such work.

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5.7-7: If any paleontological resource (i.e. plant or animal fossils) are encountered before or during grading, the developer shall retain a qualified paleontologist to monitor construction activities, and take appropriate measures to protect or preserve them for study. The paleontologist shall submit a report of findings that will also provide specific recommendations regarding further mitigation measures (i.e., paleontological monitoring) that may be appropriate. Where mitigation monitoring is appropriate, the program must include, but not be limit ed to, the following measures:
 Assign a paleontological monitor, trained, and equipped to allow the rapid removal of fossils with minimal construction delay, to the site full -time during the interval of earth-disturbing activities.
 Should fossils be found within an area being cleared or graded, divert earth- disturbing activities elsewhere until the monitor has completed salvage. If construction personnel make the discovery, the grading contractor should immediately divert construction and notify the monitor of the find.  Prepare, identify, and curate all recovered fossils for documentation in the summary report and transfer to an appropriate depository (i.e., San Bernardino County Museum).
 Submit summary report to City of Rancho Cucamonga. Transfer collected specimens with a copy to the report to San Bernardino County Museum.

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Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
SE-2.1: Fault Setbacks. Require minimum setbacks for structures proposed for human occupancy within State and City Special Study Zones. Setbacks will be based on minimum standards established under State law and recommendations of a Certified Engineering Geologist and/ or Geotechnical Engineer.

SE-2.2: Building Functionality. Require enhanced siting, design, and construction standards that focus on building functionality for new critical public

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facilities and key essential (private) facilities after a seismic event.

SE-2.3: Seismically Vulnerable Buildings. Prioritize the retrofit of seismically vulnerable buildings (unreinforced masonry, soft -story construction, non-ductile concrete, etc.) as better information and understanding becomes available.

SE-2.4: Transfer of Development Rights. Promote and allow for the use of transfer of development rights in areas of significant seismic and geologic hazards.

SE-2.5: Hillside Hazards. Prioritize regulations and strategies that reduce geologic hazard risk to properties and loss of life.

SE-5.3: Soil Transport. Require properties with high wind- blown soil erosion potential (agricultural operations, construction sites, etc.) prevent soil transport and dust generation.

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HAZARDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

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Standard Conditions of Approval

5.9-1: Future development shall prepare a Fire Protection Plan that includes measures consistent with the unique problems resulting from the location, topography, geology, flammable vegetation, and climate of the proposed development site. The Plan must also address water supply, access, building ignition fire resistance, fire protection systems and equipment, defensible space, and vegetation management. Maintenance requirements for incinerators, outdoor fireplaces, permanent barbeques and grills, and firebreak fuel modification areas are imposed on new developments.

Project Applicant Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.9-2: With respect to all open space, recreational, or parkland uses, the City will ensure through project design features and conditions of approval that Southern California Edison (SCE) has 24/7 downline access by SCE facilities and operations.

Project Applicant Prior to issuance of building
permits
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.9-3: With respect to parkland proposed within utility corridors, anti -climbing sharks teeth style barriers, or their equivalent, shall be installed on all transmission towers. Anti-climbing devices shall conform to the California Public Utilities Commission gui dance that is in effect at the time of parkland project implementation. The cost of anti -climbing guards and installation shall be borne by the project proponent.

Project Applicant Prior to issuance of building
permits
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.9-4: Any proposed trees within utility corridors should be maintained at a height not to exceed 15 feet.

Project Applicant Ongoing City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.9-5: With the exception of utility infrastructure and other public improvements that do not interfere with such infrastructure, permanent structures are not allowed within utility corridors.

Project Applicant During plan check City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.9-6: Southern California Edison (SCE) shall be notified in writing of any proposal to locate parkland or recreational uses within a utility corridor. If the use is located on SCE property or if otherwise required by law or the terms of a utility easement, SCE’s written approval of such uses shall be obtained prior to the issuance of any CEQA approval or permit or other ministerial or discretionary City approval.

Project Applicant Prior to issuance of any
CEQA approval or permit or
other ministerial or
discretionary City approval
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

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Applicable General Plan Policies
S-5.1: Future Conditions. Ensure future climatic conditions and public health emergencies are considered as part of community resilience and investment efforts.

S-5.2: Urban Forestry Plan. Minimize damage associated with wind related hazards and address climate change and urban heat island effects through the development of an urban forestry plan and proper landscaping planting and management techniques.

S-5.3: Soil Transport. Require that properties with high wind-blown soil erosion potential such as agricultural operations and construction sites prevent soil transport and dust generation wherever possible.

S-5.4: Extreme Heat Vulnerabilities. Require that new developments, major remodels, and redevelopments address urban heat island issues and reduce urban heat island effects for the proposed project site and adjacent properties.

S-5.5: Resilience Resources. Require new developments and redevelopments to incorporate resilience amenities such as, but not limited to community cooling centers, emergency supplies, and backup power that can be used by residents and businesses within a 1/4-mile radius of the location.

S-5.6: Underground Utilities. Promote the undergrounding of utilities for new development, major remodels, and redevelopment.

S-5.7: Future Adaptation. Future climate adaptation- oriented projects will incorporate natural infrastructure to the greatest extent practicable.

S-5.8: Climate Resiliency. Address climate resiliency and inequities through the planning and development process.

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S-5.9: Address High Winds. Require buildings and developments exposed to high wind conditions to incorporate design elements and features that minimize or reduce damage to people, structures, and the community.

S-6.1: Planned Development. Promote development patterns that integrate Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles that reduce the potential for human-caused hazards.

S-6.2: Neighboring Properties. Encourage properties that store, generate, or dispose of hazardous materials to locate such operations as far away as possible from areas of neighboring properties where people congregate.

S-6.3: Site Remediation. Encourage and facilitate the adequate and timely cleanup of existing and future contaminated sites and the compatibility of future land uses.

S-6.4: Airport Planning. Protect Rancho Cucamonga interests regarding land use and safety by participating in the airport land use planning process for Ontario International Airport.

S-6.5: Height Restrictions. Require proposed developments within the Ontario Airport Influence Area meet the height requirements associated with FAR Part 77 standards.

S-6.6: Development Near Airport. New development within the Ontario Airport Influence Area shall be consistent with the approved Airspace Protection Zones identified in the latest version of the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.

S-6.7: Railroad Safety. Minimize potential safety issues and land use conflicts when considering development adjacent to the railroad right-of-way.

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HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.10-1: A final drainage study shall be submitted to and approved by the City Engineer prior to final map approval or the issuance of building permits, whichever occurs first. All drainage facilities shall be installed as required by the City Engineer.

Qualified Hydrologist Prior to final map approval or
issuance of building permits,
whichever occurs first
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department,
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Engineering
Department

5.10-2: Adequate provisions shall be made for acceptance and disposal of surface drainage entering the property from adjacent areas.

Project Applicant Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
Development Department,
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Engineering
Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
OS-1.9: Joint Use. Pursue and expand joint use of public lands that are available and suitable for recreational purposes, including school district properties and flood control district, water district, and other utility properties.

RC-2.1: Water Supplies. Protect lands critical to replenishment of groundwater supplies and local surface waters (Figure RC-3).

RC-2.2: Groundwater Recharge. Preserve and enhance the existing system of stormwater capture for groundwater recharge.

RC-2.3: Riparian Resources. Promote the retention and protection of natural stream courses from encroachment, erosion, and polluted urban runoff.

RC-2.4: Waterways as Amenities. When considering new development applications and infrastructure improvements where waterways are onsite, adjacent, or nearby, incorporate the waterway into the design as a feature.

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RC-2.5: Water Conservation. Require the use of cost -effective methods to conserve water in new developments and promote appropriate water conservation and efficiency measures for existing businesses and residences.

RC-2.6: Irrigation. Encourage the conversion of water -intensive turf/landscape areas to landscaping that uses climate- and wildlife-appropriate native or non- invasive plants, efficient irrigation systems, greywater, and water efficient site maintenance.

RC-2.7: Greywater. Allow and encourage the use of greywater to meet or offset onsite non-potable water demand.

RC-6.12: Reduced Water Supplies. When reviewing development proposals, consider the possibility of constrained future water supplies and require enhanced water conservation measures.

RC-6.14: Designing for Changing Precipitation Patterns. When reviewing development proposals, encourage applicants to consider stormwater control strategies and systems for sensitivity to changes in precipitation regimes and consider adjusting those strategies to accommodate future precipitation regimes.

RC-6.18: Water Sources with Low GHG Emissions. Encourage local and regional water utilities to obtain water from sources with low or no GHG emissions.

S-4.1: New Essential Facilities (Flood). Prohibit the siting and construction of new essential public facilities within flood hazard zones, when feasible. If an essential facility must be located within a flood hazard zone, incorporate flood mitigation to the greatest extent practicable.

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adverse drainage impacts to adjacent properties, on -site retention of runoff, and minimization of structures located in floodplains.

S-4.3: 500-Year Floodplain. Promote the compliance of 100-year floodplain requirements on properties located within the 500-year floodplain designation.

S-4.4: Flood Infrastructure . Require new development to implement and enhance the Storm Drain Master Plan by constructing stormwater management infrastructure downstream of the proposed site.

S-4.5: Property Enhancements. Require development within properties located adjacent, or near flood zones and areas of frequent flooding to reduce or minimize run-off and increase retention onsite.

S-4.6: Regional Coordination . Promote regional flood management and mitigation projects with other agencies (San Bernardino County Flood Control, Army Corps of Engineers, and adjacent jurisdictions) to address flood hazards holistically.

S-4.7: Dam Operators. Coordinate with agencies operating or managing dam facilities that can inundate the city, on operations, maintenance, and training activities and provide the latest Emergency Action Plans annually.

NOISE
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.13-1: For construction activities that do not involve pile driving occurring within 580 feet residential, schools, churches, or similar uses or within 330 feet of commercial/industrial uses or for construction activities involving pile driving occurring within 1,000 feet of residential, schools, churches, or similar uses, or within 330 feet of commercial/industrial uses, or nighttime construction activities, as defined in Development Code Section 17.66.050), the City shall require that Project Applicant,
Construction Contractor
Prior to project approval City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
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project applicants prepare a site -specific construction noise analysis demonstrating compliance with the noise standards of Development Code Section 17.66.050, as determined by the City. The analysis shall be completed prior to project approval and can be completed as part of the environmental review process for projects subject to CEQA. Potential project -specific actions that can feasibly achieve compliance include, but are not limited to, restrictions on construction timing to avoid nighttime hours, restr ictions on the location of equipment and vehicle use within the construction site, installing noise mufflers on construction equipment, use of electric-powered vehicles and equipment, use of sound blankets on construction equipment, and the use of temporar y walls or noise barriers to block and deflect noise.

5.13-2: To avoid or substantially lessen exposure to substantial permanent increases in traffic noise, the City shall, at the time of development application submittal, require the preparation of a traffic noise study that includes (1) the evaluation of potential traffic noise impacts of new noise sources (e.g., project - generated traffic noise increases) on nearby existing noise sensitive receptors (such as residential neighborhoods) and (2) require noise reduction measures (e.g., sound walls, rubberized asphalt) to prevent exposure of noise sensitive receptors to substantial noise increases, consistent with Table N - 1 and
incremental increase standards of no greater than 3 dB where existing levels are below 65 dBA CNEL, 1 dB where existing levels are between 70 dBA CNEL and 75 dBA and any increase where existing levels are above 75 dBA CNEL, as determined by the City.

Project Applicant,
Traffic Engineer
At the time of development
application submittal
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.13-3: The City shall require that project applicants analyze and mitigate potential noise impacts from new stationary noise sources (e.g., loading docks at commercial and industrial uses, mechanical equipment associated with all building types), to, as determined by the City, comply with the City’s daytime (7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) standards of 65 dBA L eq/50 dBA L eq (exterior/interior) and nighttime (10:00 p.m. -7:00 a.m.) standards of 60 dBA L eq/45 dBA L eq (exterior/interior), described in Development Code Section 17.66.050(F). The Project Applicant,
Qualified Acoustical
Engineer
Prior to project approval City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
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analysis shall be prepared by a qualified acoustical engineer or noise specialist and completed prior to project approval and can be completed as part of the environmental review process for projects subject to CEQA. Potential project - specific actions that can feasibly achieve compliance include, but are not limited to, the use of enclosures or screening materials (e.g., landscape buffers, parapets, masonry walls) around stationary noise sources (e.g., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, gen erators, heating boilers, loading docks) or of noise suppression devices (e.g., acoustic louvers, mufflers).

5.13-4a: The City shall, at the time of development project application submittal, evaluate the compatibility of proposed noise sensitive uses (e.g., residences, lodging, schools, parks) with the noise environment to ensure noise compatibility standards (Table N-1) are met.

Project Applicant At the time of development
project application
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.13-4b: Applicants for development projects shall, at the time of application submittal, evaluate noise impacts for compliance with noise compatibility standards (Table N -1), and when noise attenuation measures are required, prioritize site planning that reduces noise exposure over other attenuation measures, particularly the location of parking, ingress/egress/loading, and refuse collection areas relative to surrounding residential development and other noise- sensitive land uses.

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project application
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.13-4c: Applicants for development projects shall, at the time of application submittal, evaluate noise impacts for compliance with noise compatibility standards (Table N -1), and when noise attenuation measures are required, incorporate building orientation, desi gn, and interior layout into the project to achieve compatible noise levels. For example, noise insulation materials (e.g., double-glazed windows and well-sealed doors) substantially lessen interior noise levels. In addition, interior building layouts that place active rooms, such as kitchens, between noise-sensitive rooms, such as bedrooms, and exterior noise sources, such as roadways, substantially lessen interior noise levels within the noise-sensitive rooms.

Project Applicant At the time of development
project application
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
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5.13-4d: The City shall require that mixed -use development be designed to minimize exposure of noise-sensitive uses from adjacent noise sources and require full disclosure of the potential noise impacts of living in a mixed-use development by requiring residential disclosure notices within deeds and lease agreements as a condition of project approval.

Project Applicant Prior to occupancy City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.13-4e: The City shall review and comment on transportation capital projects and operations sponsored by Caltrans and other agencies to minimize exposure of noise-sensitive uses within the city to adverse levels of transportation-related noise, including noise associated with freeways, major arterials, bus transit, and rail lines.

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Development Department

5.13-5a: For development involving construction activities within 500 feet of existing sensitive land uses (places where people sleep or buildings containing vibration-sensitive uses), the City shall require applicants, at the time of application submittal, to prepare a project-specific vibration analysis that identifies vibration-reducing measures to ensure the project construction does not exceed applicable vibration criteria (e.g., FTA, Caltrans) for the purpose of preventing disturbance to sensitive land uses and structural damage. The analysis shall include, but is not limited to, the following requirements:
 Ground vibration-producing activities, such as pile driving, shall be limited to the daytime hours between 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and prohibited on Sundays and holidays.
 If pile driving is used, pile holes shall be predrilled to the maximum feasible depth to reduce the number of blows required to seat a pile.  Maximize the distance between construction equipment and vibration- sensitive land uses.
 Earthmoving, blasting and ground-impacting activities shall be prohibited from occurring at the same time if simultaneous activity would result in exceedance of vibration criteria.
 Where pile driving is proposed, alternatives to traditional pile driving (e.g., Project Applicant At the time of development
project application
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
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sonic pile driving, jetting, cast -in-place or auger cast piles, nondisplacement piles, pile cushioning, torque or hydraulic piles) shall be implemented when the project cannot otherwise demonstrate vibration levels in compliance with the structural damage threshold.
 Minimum setback requirements for different types of ground vibration- producing activities (e.g., pile driving) for the purpose of preventing damage to nearby structures shall be established. Factors to be considered include the specific nature of the vibration producing activity (e.g., type and duration of pile driving
), soil conditions, and the fragility/resiliency of the nearby structures. Established setback requirements (100 feet for pile driving, 25 feet for other construction activity) can be revised only if a project-specific analysis is conducted by a qualified
geotechnical engineer or ground vibration
specialist that demonstrates, as determined by the City, that the structural damage vibration threshold would not be exceeded.
 Minimum setback requirements for different types of ground vibration producing activities (e.g., pile driving) for the purpose of preventing negative human response shall be established based on the specific nature of the vibration producing activity (e.g. , type and duration of pile driving), soil conditions, and the type of sensitive receptor. Established setback requirements (500 for pile driving, 80 for other construction) can be revised only if a project-specific ground vibration study demonstrates, as determined by the City, that receptors would not be exposed to ground vibration levels in excess of negative human response vibration threshold levels, depending on the frequency of the event and receiver type.
 All vibration -inducing activity within the established setback distances for preventing structural damage and negative human response shall be monitored and documented to compare recorded ground vibration noise and vibration noise levels at affected sensitive land uses to the applicable vibration threshold values. The results included recorded vibration data shall be

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submitted to the City.

5.13-5b: For projects proposed within 600 feet of commuter rail/high -speed rail/freight rail, or rail with combined services, the City shall require applicants, at the time of application submittal, to prepare a project -specific vibration analyses to evaluate vibr ation exposure from nearby transit sources. The vibration assessment shall be prepared by a qualified acoustical engineer or noise specialist in accordance with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) vibration impact criteria, or other applicable City policy in place at the time of project application submittal. The assessment shall determine vibration levels at specific building locations and identify structural mitigation measures (e.g., isolation strip foundations, insulated windows and walls, sound walls or barriers, distance setbacks, or other construction or design measures) that would reduce vibration to acceptable levels for the receptor and source type.

Project Applicant,
Qualified Acoustical
Engineer
At the time of development
project application
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.13-5c: The City shall evaluate new transportation capital projects and operations sponsored by other agencies for structural vibration impacts and vibration annoyance impacts, consistent with City-approved methodologies (e.g., Caltrans, FTA guidance).

City of Rancho Cucamonga Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
N-1.1: Noise Levels. Require new development to meet the noise compatibility standards identified in Table N-1.

N-1.2: Noise Barriers, Buffers and Sound Walls. Require the use of integrated design-related noise reduction measures for both interior and exterior areas prior to the use of noise barriers, buffers, or walls to reduce noise levels generated by or affected by new development.

N-1.3: Non -Architectural Noise Attenuation. Non-architectural noise attenuation measures such as sound walls, setbacks, barriers, and berms shall be discouraged in pedestrian priority areas (or other urban areas or areas where

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N-1.4: New Development Near Major Noise Sources. Require development proposing to add people in areas where they may be exposed to major noise sources (e.g., roadways, rail lines, aircraft, industrial or other non-transportation noise sources) to conduct a project level noise analysis and implement recommended noise reduction measures.

N-1.5: Urban and Suburban Development Near Transit. Allow development located in infill areas, near transit hubs, or along major roadways an exemption from exterior noise standards for secondary open space areas (such as front yards, parking lots, stoops, porches, or balconies), if noise standards can be met for primary open space.

N-1.6: Rail Crossing Quiet Zones. Allow the establishment of a full or partial at- grade rail crossing or quiet zone near transit hubs or residential development.

N-1.7: Entertainment. Establish different standards for exterior noise consistent with the place type.

N-1.8: Vibration Impact Assessment. Require new development to reduce vibration to 85 VdB or below within 200 feet of an existing structure.

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5.17-1: Future development applications in the City shall be required to provide traffic impact analyses for review and approval by the City during the permit process to identify the traffic impacts of the project and the needed roadway and intersection improvements. Any identified on-
site improvements and
improvements to abutting roadways would need to be made part of the development. Coupled with the payment of DIF for the improvement of off -site roadways and intersections, traffic impacts would be mitigated on a project-by- project basis.

Project Applicant,
Traffic Engineer
During permit process City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.17-2: Future developments with 250 employees or more shall comply with the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD’s) Rule 2202, which requires the implementation of trip reduction measures as a means of reducing pollutant emission in the air basin. An employer subject to this Rule shall annually register with the SCAQMD to implement an emission reduction program, in accordance with this Rule.

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Development Department

5.17-3: Individual projects shall provide the following, as determined applicable by City staff:
 Provide car-sharing, bike sharing, and ride-sharing programs;  Improve or increase access to transit;
 Incorporate neighborhood electric vehicle networks into the project;  Include project measures to reduce transportation requirements such as work from home and flexible work schedules;
 Link to existing pedestrian or bicycle networks, or transit service; and/or  Provide traffic calming.

Project Applicant Prior to construction activities City of Rancho Cucamonga Community
Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
OS-1.1: Equitable Access to Parks. Strive to ensure that at least one park or other public open space is within 1/2 mile or a 10 -minute walk from homes and

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jobs, without crossing major streets except at signalized crossings.

OS-1.2: Underserved Communities. Prioritize the provision of new trails, parks, plazas, and other open space types in areas of the City that are underserved by parks, services, and amenities.

OS-2.2: Connectivity. Connect trails in Rancho Cucamonga to trails in the San Bernardino National Forest and other hillside open space areas.

OS-2.3: Trailheads. Provide trailhead amenities such as parking, restrooms, information boards, and maps.

OS-2.4: Equestrian Trails. Continue to maintain and pursue the development of planned trails and facilities for equestrian use.

OS-2.5: Utility Corridors. Preserve the primary function of utility corridors while providing every reasonable opportunity for shared public use for active mobility and recreational purposes.

OS-2.6: Design for Heat. Consider extreme heat in the design of streets, parks, trails, and playgrounds to support activity throughout the year and in all weather conditions by including shade trees, shade structures, water fountains, splash pads, lighting for night play in most spaces.

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OS-2.9: Trail and Park Sponsorship. Support the creation of partnerships with organizations to sponsor and maintain green spaces, parks, trails, and community gardens.

MA-1.1: Transportation Leadership. Take a leadership role in local and regional transportation related planning and decision making.

MA-1.2: Rancho Cucamonga Station Redevelopment. Support redevelopment in and around the Rancho Cucamonga Station to support transit -oriented development.

MA-1.3: Funding. Support federal, statewide, and regional infrastructure funding for transit and transportation.

MA-1.4: Local Mobility Hub. Require new development at mobility hubs and key stops along the future bus rapid transit and future transit circulator system to facilitate first mile/last mile connectivity to neighborhoods.

MA-1.5: Provide Mobility Options. Provide roadway connections and local mobility hubs designed to capture 80% of the population and employment south of Base Line Road.

MA-1.6: Boulevard Implementation. Require boulevards with high -quality transit to not only account for how transit service is impacted by the geometry of the corridor, but also by signal timing, signal phasing, turns, and other operations that may jeopardize the quality of service.

MA-2.1: Complete Streets. Require that new roadways include provisions for complete streets, balancing the needs of all users of all ages and capabilities.

MA-2.2: Street Design. Implement innovative street and intersection designs to

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maximize efficiency and safety in the city.

MA-2.3: Street Connectivity. Require connectivity and accessibility to a mix of land uses that meets residents’ daily needs within walking distance.

MA-2.4: Street Vacations. Prioritize pedestrian and utility connectivity over street vacations.

MA-2.5: Context. Ensure that complete streets applications integrate the neighborhood and community identity into the street design. This can include special provisions for pedestrians and bicycles.

MA-2.7: Facility Service Levels. Maintain level of service (LOS) D for priority modes on each street; LOS E or F may be acceptable at intersections or segments for modes that are not prioritized. The City will develop a list of intersections and roadways that are protected from this level of service policy.

MA-2.8: New Streets. Require new roadway connections to improve emergency accessibility and roadway connectivity north of State Route 210 and within the Southeast Area.

MA-2.10: Master Planning. Master plan sites so as to ensure a well -structured network and block pattern with sufficient access and connectivity.

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MA-2.11: Transportation Demand Management. Require new projects to implement Transportation Demand Management strategies , such as employer provided transit pass/parking credit, low-speed communications infrastructure for telecommuting, carpooling incentive, etc.

MA-3.1: Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks. Maintain the Active Transportation Plan supporting safe routes to school, and a convenient network of identified pedestrian and bicycle routes with access to major employment centers, shopping districts, regional transit centers, and residential neighborhoods.

MA-3.2: Traffic Safety. Prioritize transportation system improvements that help eliminate traffic-related fatalities and severe injury collisions.

MA-3.3: Vulnerable User Safety. Prioritize pedestrian improvements in the Pedestrian Priority Area shown on Figure 8 to promote safety in the southwest area of the City.

MA-3.4: Emergency Access. Prioritize development and infrastructure investments that work to implement, maintain, and enhance emergency access throughout the community.

MA-4.1: Truck Network. Avoid designating truck routes that use collector or local streets that primarily serve residential uses and other sensitive receptors.

MA-4.2: Southeast Area Connectivity. Require new development in the Southeast Area to provide the necessary infrastructure to maintain access and public safety as shown on Figure M-8.

MA-4.3: Future Logistics Technology. Support and plan for electrification and autonomy of the truck fleet.

MA-4.4: Rail Access. Avoid abandonment of rail access to industrial parcels or

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utilize such right of way to balance and enhance other connectivity goals within the City (such as pedestrian/bicycle trails).

MA-4.5: Grade Separation. Support the construction of grade separations of roadways and trails from rail lines.

MA-5.1: Land Use Supporting Reduced VMT. Work to reduce VMT through land use planning, enhanced transit access, localized attractions, and access to non-automotive modes.

MA-5.17: Emerging Technologies. Prioritize investments in critical infrastructure and pilot programs to leverage proven new transportation technology.

MA-5.3: Funding. Remain flexible in the pursuit and adoption of transportation funding mechanisms that fund innovative transportation solutions.

MA-5.4: Intelligent Systems Preparation. Upgrade the City’s ATMS and communications systems to ensure that the City meets the intelligent transportation system demands of today while planning for future demands associated with AVs and CVs.

TRIBAL CULTURAL RESOURCES
Standard Conditions of Approval

5.18-1: Inadvertent Archeological Find. If during ground disturbance activities, cultural resources are discovered that were not assessed by the archaeological report(s) and/or environmental assessment conducted prior to project approval, the following procedures shall be followed. Cultural resources are defined as being multiple artifacts in close association with each other, but also include fewer artifacts if the area of the find is determined to be of significance due to its Project Applicant,
Registered Professional
Archaeologist, Tribal
Representative(s)
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Activities
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sacred or cultural importance as determined in consultation with the Native American Tribe(s).
a. All ground disturbance activities within 100 feet of the discovered cultural resources shall be halted until a meeting is convened between the developer, the archaeologist, the tribal representative(s) and the Planning Director to discuss the significance of the find.
b. At the meeting, the significance of the discoveries shall be discussed and after consultation with the tribal representative(s) and the archaeologist, a decision shall be made, with the concurrence of the Planning Director, as to the appropriate mitigation (documentation, recovery, avoidance, etc.) for the cultural resources.
c. Grading or further ground disturbance shall not resume within the area of the discovery until an agreement has been reached by all parties as to the appropriate mitigation. Work shall be allowed to continue outside of the buffer area and will be monitored by additional Tribal monitors if needed. d. Treatment and avoidance of the newly discovered resources shall be consistent with the Cultural Resources Management Plan and Monitoring Agreements entered into with the appropriate tribes. This may include avoidance of the cultural resources through proje ct design, in-place preservation of cultural resources located in native soils and/or re- burial on the Project property so they are not subject to further disturbance in perpetuity as identified in Non-Disclosure of Reburial Locations Condition. e. If the find is determined to be significant and avoidance of the site has not been achieved, a Phase III data recovery plan shall be prepared by the project archaeologist, in consultation with the Tribe, and shall be submitted to the City for their review and approval prior to implementation of the said plan.

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f. Pursuant to Calif. Pub. Res. Code § 21083.2(b) avoidance is the preferred method of preservation for archaeological resources and tribal cultural resources.

If the landowner and the Tribe(s) cannot agree on the
significance or the mitigation for the archaeological or tribal cultural resources, these issues will be presented to the Planning Director for decision. The City’s Planning Director shall make the determination based on the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act with respect to archaeological and tribal cultural resources, recommendations of the project archaeologist, and shall take into account the cultural and religious principles and practices of the Tribe. Notwithstanding any other rights available under the law, the decision of the City Planning Director shall be appealable to the City Planning Commission and/or City Council.

5.18-2: Cultural Resources Disposition. In the event that Native American cultural resources are discovered during the course of grading (inadvertent discoveries), the following procedures shall be carried out for final disposition of the discoveries:
g. One or more of the following treatments, in order of preference, shall be employed with the tribes. Evidence of such shall be provided to the City of Rancho Cucamonga Planning Department:
i. Preservation-In-Place of the cultural resources, if feasible.

Preservation in place means avoiding the resources, leaving them in the place where they were found with no development affecting the integrity of the resources.
ii. Reburial of the resources on the Project property. The measures for reburial shall include, at least, the following: Measures and provisions to protect the future reburial area from any future impacts in perpetuity.

Reburial shall not occur until all legally required cataloging and basic recording has been completed, with an exception that sacred items, Project Applicant,
Registered Professional
Archaeologist, Tribal
Representative(s)
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burial goods, and Native American human remains are excluded. Any reburial process shall be culturally appropriate. Listing of contents and location of the reburial shall be included in the confidential Phase IV report. The Phase IV Report shall be filed w ith the City under a confidential cover and not subject to Public Records Request. iii. If preservation in place or reburial is not feasible then the resources shall be curated in a culturally appropriate manner at a San Bernardino County curation facility that meets State Resources Department Office of Historic Preservation Guidelines for th e Curation of Archaeological Resources ensuring access and use pursuant to the Guidelines. The collection and associated records shall be transferred, including title, and are to be accompanied by payment of the fees by the Applicant necessary for permanent curation. Evidence of curation in the form of a letter from the curation facility stating that subject archaeological materials have been received and that all fees have been paid, shall be provided by the landowner to the City. There shall be no destructive or invasive testing on sacred items, burial goods, and Native American human remains, as defined by the cultural and religious practices of the Most Likely Descendant. Results concerning finds of any inadvertent discoveries shall be included in the Phase IV monitoring report.

5.18-3: Archaeologist Retained. Prior to issuance of a grading permit the project applicant shall retain a qualified Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA), to monitor all ground disturbing activities in an effort to identify any unknown archaeological resources. The Registered Professional Archaeologist and the Tribal monitor(s) shall manage and oversee monitoring for all initial ground disturbing activities and excavation of each portion of the project site including clearing, grubbing, tree removals, mass or rough grading, trenching, stockpiling of materials, rock crushing, structure demolition and etc. The Registered Professional Archaeologist and the Tribal monitor(s), shall Project Applicant,
Registered Professional
Archaeologist, Tribal
Representative(s)
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independently have the authority to temporarily divert, redirect, or halt the ground disturbance activities to allow identification, evaluation, and potential recovery of cultural resources in coordination with any required special interest or tribal monitors. The developer/permit holder shall submit a fully executed copy of the contract to the Planning Department to ensure compliance with this condition of approval. Upon verification, the Planning Department shall clear this condition. In addition, the Registered Professional Archaeologist, in consultation with the Consulting Tribe(s), the contractor, and the City, shall develop a Cultural Resources Management Plan (CRMP) in consultation pursuant to the definition in AB 52 to address the details, timing, and responsibility of all archaeological and cultural activities that will occur on the project site. A consulting tribe is defined as a tribe that initiated the AB 52 tribal consultation process for the Project, has not opted out of the AB 52 consultation process, and has completed AB 52 consultation with the City as provided for in Cal Pub Res Code Section 21080.3.2(b)(1) of AB52. Details in the Plan shall include:
a. Project grading and development scheduling;
b. The Project archaeologist and the Consulting Tribes(s) shall attend the pre- grading meeting with the City, the construction manager and any contractors, and will conduct a mandatory Cultural Resources Worker Sensitivity Training to those in attendance. The Training will include a brief review of the cultural sensitivity of the Project and the surrounding area; what resources could potentially be identified during earthmoving activities; the requirements of the monitoring program; the protocols that apply in the event inadvertent discoveries of cultural resources are identified, including who to contact and appropriate avoidance measures until the find(s) can be properly evaluated; and any other appropriate protocols.

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Consulting Tribe(s) shall make themselves available to provide the training on an as-needed basis;
c. The protocols and stipulations that the contractor, City, Consulting Tribe(s) and Project archaeologist will follow in the event of inadvertent cultural resources discoveries, including any newly discovered cultural resource deposits that shall be subject to a cultural resources evaluation.

5.18-4: Native American Monitoring. Tribal monitor(s) shall be required on-site during all ground-disturbing activities, including grading, stockpiling of materials, engineered fill, rock crushing, etc. The land divider/permit holder shall retain a qualified tribal monitor(s) from the requesting Tribe. Prior to issuance of a grading permit, the developer shall submit a copy of a signed contract between the Tribe and the land divider/permit holder for the monitoring of the project to the Planning Department and to the Engineering Department. The Tribal Monitor(s) shall have the authority to temporarily divert, redirect or halt the ground-disturbance activities to allow recovery of cultural resources, in coordination with the Project Archaeologist.

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Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.18-5: Archeology Report - Phase III and IV. Prior to final inspection, the developer/permit holder shall prompt the Project Archeologist to submit two (2) copies of the Phase III Data Recovery report (if required for the Project) and the Phase IV Cultural Resources Monitoring Report that complies with the Community Development Department's requirements for such reports. The Phase IV report shall include evidence of the required cultural/historical sensitivity training for the construction staff held during the pre-grade meeting.

The Planning Department shall review the reports to determine adequate mitigation compliance. Provided the reports are adequate, the Community Development Department shall clear this condition. Once the report(s) are determined to be adequate, two (2) copies shall be submitted to the South Central Coastal Information Center (SCCIC) at California State University, Fullerton and one (1) copy shall be submitted to the Consulting Tribe(s) Cultural Resources Department(s).

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Registered Professional
Archaeologist
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5.18-6: Human Remains. If human remains are encountered, State Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 states that no further disturbance shall occur until the San Bernardino County Coroner has made the necessary findings as to origin. Further, pursuant to Public Resource Code Section 5097.98(b) remains shall be left in place and free from disturbance until a final decision as to the treatment and disposition has been made. If the San Bernardino County Coroner determines the remains to be Native American, the Native American Heritage Commission shall be contacted within the period specified by law (24 hours). Subsequently, the Native American Heritage Commission shall identify the "most likely descendant." The most likely descendant shall then make recommendations and engage in consultation concerning the treatment of the remains as provided in Public Resources Code Section 5097.98.

Project Applicant,
County Coroner
If Human Remains are
Encountered
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

5.18-7: Non-Disclosure of Reburial Locations. It is understood by all parties that unless otherwise required by law, the site of any reburial of Native American human remains or associated grave goods shall not be disclosed and shall not be governed by public disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act. The Coroner, pursuant to the specific exemption set forth in California Government Code 6254 (r)., parties, and Lead Agencies, will be asked to withhold public disclosure information related to such reburial, pursuant to the specific exemption set forth in California Government Code 6254 (r).

Project Applicant,
County Coroner
If Human Remains are
Encountered
City of Rancho
Cucamonga Community
Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
RC-4.1: Disturbance of Human Remains. In areas where there is a high chance that human remains may be present, the City will require proposed projects to conduct a survey to establish occurrence of human remains, and measures to prevent impacts to human remains if found.

RC-4.2: Discovery of Human Remains. Require that any human remains discovered during implementation of public and private projects within the city be treated with respect and dignity and fully comply with the California Native

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Standard Conditions of Approval

Project Applicant Prior to issuance of building
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Cucamonga Community
Development Department

Applicable General Plan Policies
LC-2.9: Buffer Zones. Require development projects to incorporate buffer zones when determined to be necessary or desirable to serve as managed open space for wildfire safety and vegetation fuel modification.

OS-1.10: Buffer Zones. Provide buffer zones, as appropriate and necessary, to serve as managed open space for wildfire safety and vegetation fuel modification.

Buffer zones may include trails, small recreational amenities, information kiosks and signage, and even staging points for fire vehicles.

MA-2.8: New Streets. Require new roadway connections to improve emergency accessibility and roadway connectivity north of State Route 210 and within the Southeast Area.

MA-3.4: Emergency Access. Prioritize development and infrastructure investments that work to implement, maintain, and enhance emergency access

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throughout the community.

H-3.1: Homeless Services. Provide assistance as it becomes available towards efforts of local organizations and community groups to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing opportunities, and services to the city’s homeless population and those at-risk of homelessness.

H-5.3: Development Review Process. Facilitate the development review process for new housing through multiple techniques, including staff assistance, public information, articles in the City’s newsletter, informal meetings with applicants, and Preliminary Review applications to address technical issues and facilitate the production of quality housing.

RC-3.7: Urban Forestry Plan. Minimize damage associated with wind- and fire- related hazards and risks and address climate change and urban heat island effects through the development of an urban forestry plan that addresses and proper and appropriate landscaping, plant and tree selecti on and replacement, planting and vegetation management techniques.

S-1.1: City Staff Readiness. Ensure City staff and departments demonstrate a readiness to respond to emergency incidents and events.

S-1.2: Culture of Preparedness. Promote a culture of preparedness for businesses and residents that empowers them to increase their resilience to hazard related events and a changing climate.

S-1.3: Evacuation Capacity. Require new developments, redevelopments, and major remodels to enhance the city’s evacuation network and facilities and comply with the City’s Evacuation Assessment.

S-1.4: WUIFA Access Points. Require all new developments and

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redevelopments within the WUIFA to provide a minimum of two points of access by means of public roads that can be used for emergency vehicle response and evacuation purposes.

S-1.5: Enhanced Circulation. In areas of the city with limited access routes and circulation challenges, require additional roads and improvements to ensure adequate emergency vehicle response and evacuation.

S-1.6: Evacuation Road Widths. Require any roads used for evacuation purposes to provide at least 26 feet of unobstructed pavement width.

S-1.7: Maintenance of Plans. Maintain and regularly update the City’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) as an integrated component of the General Plan, in coordination with the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), the Evacuation Plan, and S tandardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) compliant disaster plans to maintain eligibility for grant funding.

S-1.8: Regional Coordination. Ensure regional coordination continues with neighboring jurisdictions, County, State, and Federal agencies on emergency management and risk reduction planning and activities.

S-1.9: Mutual Aid. Ensure mutual aid agreements with Federal, State, local agencies, and the private sector establish responsibility boundaries, joint response services, and multi-alarm and station coverage capabilities.

S-3.1: Fire Risk Reduction. Apply all state and local codes and regulations (fire safe design, adherence to Standard 49-1) to new development, redevelopment, major, and existing non-conforming uses remodels in the WUIFA.

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remodels in the WUIFA will require the preparation of Fire Protection Plans (FPPs) to reduce fire threat, in accordance with Fire District policies and procedures.

S-3.3: Vegetation Management. Owners of properties and public/ private roads within and adjacent to the WUIFA are required to conduct brush clearance and fuel modification to reduce fire ignition potential and spread.

S-3.4: Buffer Zones. Require development projects to incorporate buffer zones as deemed necessary by the City’s Fire Marshal for fire safety and fuel modification.

S-3.5: Water Supply. All developments will meet fire flow requirements identified in the Fire Code.

S-3.6: Coordination with Agencies. Coordinate with State, regional, and local agencies and service providers on fire risk reduction planning and activities.

S-3.7: Wildfire Awareness. Assist residents and property owners with being better informed on fire hazards and risk reduction activities in the WUIFA.

S-3.8: New Essential Facilities (WUIFA). Prohibit the siting of new essential public facilities (including, but not limited to, hospitals and health care facilities, emergency shelters, emergency command centers, and emergency communications facilities) within the WUIFA, unless appropriate construction methods or strategies are incorporated to minimize impacts.

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Attachment 2

1 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-xxx

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY

OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPT ING

THE EPICENTER MASTER PLAN, ADOPT ING AN

ADDENDUM TO A CERTIFIED RANCHO CUCAMONGA
GENERAL PLAN UPDATE 2020 FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL

IMPACT REPORT, AND ADOPT ING FINDINGS

PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL

QUALITY ACT IN CONNECTION THEREWITH
A. Recitals.

1. The City of Rancho Cucamonga has prepared an Epicenter Master Plan for the city -owned parcels that make up the area commonly known as the Epicenter Sports Complex, as described in the title of this Resolution. Hereinafter in this Resolution, the subject Master Plan is collectively referred to as the “Plan.”

2. On November 8, 2023, the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga conducted a noticed public hearing on the Plan and concluded said hearing on that date.

3. On December 20, 2023, the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga Conducted a noticed public hearing on the Plan and concluded said hearing on that date.

4. All legal prerequisites prior to the adoption of this Resolution have occurred.

B. Resolution.

NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby found, determined, and resolved by the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga as follows:

1. This Planning Commission hereby finds that all of the facts set forth in the Recitals, Part A of this Resolution, are true and correct.

2. Based upon the substantial evidence presented to the City Council during the above-referenced public hearing on December 20, 2023, in cluding written and oral staff reports, together with public testimony, this City Council hereby finds as follows:

a. The Plan area consists of city -owned parcels commonly known as the Epicenter Sports Complex, consisting of Quakes Stadium, Sofive Soccer Center, Rancho Cucamonga Sports Center, Rancho Cucamonga Animal Center, Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility Facility and Parking, associated parking lots and a City owned vacant lot at the northwest corner of Rochester and Arrow.; and 2 b. The parcels that are subject to the Plan include APN’s 229-012-73 and -74, 0229-012-01,-02,-03,-09,-10,-22,-23,-72; and

c. No privately owned parcels are subject to this Plan.

d. The City prepared the Plan, which is included as Exhibit “ A,” to this Resolution and are hereby incorporated by this reference as set forth in full.

e. The Plan conforms to and does not conflict with the goals, policies, and implementation programs of the General Plan, including, without limitation, the Housing and Land Use Elements thereof, and will provide for development in a manner consistent with the General Plan.

f. Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) (Pub.

Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) and the City’s local CEQA Guidelines, the City Council, in December 2021, certified the Rancho Cucamonga General Plan Update 2020 Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) (SCH No. 2021050261) for the City’s adoption of the 2020 General Plan Update (“PlanRC”) and Climate Action Plan, and adopted findings pursuant to CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines (“Certified FEIR”). No new information has become available and no substantial changes to the circumstances under which implementation of the General Plan Update and Climate Action Plan has been undertaken since the certification of the FEIR occurred. The proposed Amendments would not substantially increase the severity of effects relative to the environmental topics analyzed in the Certified FEIR, nor would the proposed Plan require new mitigation measures or alternatives. An Addendum to the Certified FEIR for the PlanRC and Climate Action Plan was prepared for the adoption of the Plan pursuant to CEQA and State CEQA Guidelines Section 15164. The City Council has reviewed the Addendum to the Certified FEIR attached to the staff report accompanying the proposed Plan, along with the Certified FEIR, and, hereby finds the following:

(1) Based on this evidence and all evidence in the record, concur with Planning Department staff’s determination that the proposed Plan will not have a significant effect on the environment and an Addendum is the appropriate level of environmental review under CEQA;

(2) In the exercise of its independent judgment, conclude that the Addendum accurately describes the environmental ramifications of the adoption the Plan;

(3) Based on the evidence in the record, including the
Addendum, that the Plan does not require supplemental or subsequent environmental review because the Epicenter Master Plan (i) is not a substantial change to the PlanRC and Climate Action Plan analyzed under the Certified FEIR that would require major revisions to the previously Certified FEIR, (ii) is not a substantial change in the circumstances under which the PlanRC and Climate Action Plan are being undertaken that would require major revisions to the Certified FEIR, and (iii) do not constitute new information of substantial importance that was not known at the time the FEIR was certified;
3 (4) Find that if the Plan is adopted by the City Council, the impacts associated with the adoption of the Plan would be the same or less than those identified for the PlanRC and Climate Action Plan in the Certified FEIR, for the reasons set forth in the Addendum;

(5) Exercising its independent judgment after considering the administrative record, adopt the Addendum to the Certified FEIR and reaffirm the findings adopted as part of the FEIR certification as remaining applicable to the Plan.

3. Based upon the findings and conclusions set forth in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of paragraph B above, the City Council hereby adopt s the Plan as indicated in Exhibit “A”, and incorporated herein by this reference.

4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 20TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2023.

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA

BY:

L. Dennis Michael, Mayor

I, Janice C. Reynolds, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was introduced, passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 20
th day of December, 2023, by the following vote-to-wit:

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

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4 Exhibit A
Epicenter Master Plan

This Epicenter Master Plan and the vision, strategies, development standards, and implementation playbook herein, are a result of a collaborative effort between the City of Rancho Cucamonga’s professional staff, City Council, Planning Commission, and team of professional consultants.

Specific acknowledgment is given to the following individuals:

City of Rancho Cucamonga
City Council
L. Dennis Michael, Mayor
Lynne B. Kennedy, Mayor Pro Tem
Ryan A. Hutchinson, Council Member
Kristine D. Scott, Council Member
Ashley N. Stickler, Council Member
Planning Commission
Bryan Dopp, Chair
Tony Morales, Vice Chair
Diane Williams, Commissioner
Al Boling, Commissioner
James Daniels, Commissioner
City Staff
John Gillison, City Manager
Elisa Cox, Assistant City Manager
Matt Burris, Deputy City Manager
Julie Sowles, Deputy City Manager
Jennifer Hunt-Gracia, Director of Community
Services
Jason Welday, Director of Engineering
Bill Wittkopf, Director of Public Works
Matt Marquez, Director of Planning and Economic
Development
Jennifer Nakamura, Deputy Planning Director
Katie Distelrath, Deputy Director of Community
Services
Jean Ward, Civic Solutions, Contract Project Manager
Consultant Team
Sargent Town Planning | Urban Planning and
Design Lead, Master Plan Preparation
David Sargent, Senior Principal
Peter VanderWal, Principal, Project Director
Andrew Krizman, Senior Urban Planner & Designer
Michael Mabaquiao, Senior Urban Designer
Javier Ballesteros, Associate, Urban Designer
Studio One Eleven | Urban and
Architectural Design
Michael Bohn, Partner
David Sabunas, Senior Design Director
Matthew Wister, Studio Director
The Lab | Feasibility Analysis
Shaheen Sadeghi, Principal
Roman Ciuni, Project Manager
Chris Bennett, Operations
Fehr & Peers | Traffic & Mobility
Jason Pack, Principal
Delia Votsch, Project Manager
Keyser Marston Associates | Economics
Kevin Engstrom, Senior Principal
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1: THE VISION IN CONTEXT
The General Plan envisions the Epicenter Master Plan Area as a fun, active district which serves as a destination for recreation, entertainment, and gathering. The General Plan states:
“Opportunities for intensification around the Cucamonga Station and Epicenter Sports Complex present the high potential for Central South (Community Planning Area) to evolve into a significant, transit-oriented, mixed-use urban center and regional employment hub" (General Plan, page 25).

This Plan is intended to implement that vision, ensuring that each new development, whether in the near term or further in the future, contributes to that long-term goal. While the Plan Area takes its name and much of its identity from the Epicenter Sports Complex—see the following pages on Plan Background & Context—the Epicenter Master Plan Area (or Plan Area) includes all the City- owned land within the 56-acre Plan Area boundary included on maps throughout this document (see page 6). This first Chapter covers the following topics:

Plan Background & Context
Leveraging & Connecting to the Context
An Active, Connected Public Realm
Phased & Shared Parking Strategy
Introduction
The Vision
in Context

| EPICENTER MASTER PLAN | CHAPTER CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA | December 2023 | 54 Plan Background & Context
Following its incorporation as a City in 1977, Rancho
Cucamonga grew explosively in population. As part
of the City’s strategy for generating civic activity
and a growing sense of community pride, the
City constructed the Epicenter Sports Complex to
attract a minor league ball club. Opened in 1993,
it became the home of the co-branded Rancho
Cucamonga Quakes ball club, attracting large
crowds from throughout the Inland Empire.

Located on Rochester Avenue, in a commercial and
light industrial area south of Foothill Boulevard,
the Epicenter Sports Complex now includes
Quakes Stadium (referred to throughout this Plan
as the Stadium), three softball fields available for
community leagues and tournaments, one little
league baseball field, and a new Sports Center
east of Rochester Ave. These athletic facilities are
surrounded by surface parking lots that are rarely
utilized to capacity, even when the Quakes are
playing. The Epicenter Master Plan Area takes its
name from the Epicenter Sports Complex, but it
now hosts a variety of other uses as well. South
of the softball fields are the Sofive Soccer Center
fields, hosting 5-on-5 and 7-on-7 soccer. On Arrow
Route, the City's Animal Center cares for and finds
new homes for abandoned pets and other animals.

The City recently acquired a vacant parcel on the
corner of Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte for a future,
larger, more public-facing Animal Center expansion
facility.

From 2019 to 2021, the City comprehensively updated
its General Plan, through a process of extensive
community engagement and consultation. Through
that process, creating a complete downtown for this
former bedroom suburb of Los Angeles emerged
as a top-level community priority. A Downtown
Focus Area Plan was included in the new General
Plan (page 102), envisioning and illustrating how
the Epicenter Master Plan Area would become part
of the expanded Downtown Rancho Cucamonga.

Strategies for achieving this included street and
trail improvements to bring the Plan Area within a
pleasant walk, bike ride or short transit ride of Foothill Boulevard, Victoria Gardens, and Cucamonga Station
just a mile away to the southwest.

In 2022, the City undertook preparation of this
Master Plan to accelerate the vision for Downtown
Rancho Cucamonga and to address two important
challenges of the Plan Area: 1) there is not enough
community activity throughout each day and each
season of the year, and 2) there is not nearly enough
revenue to cover what the City spends maintaining
its 56-acre holdings in the Plan Area. Therefore, this
Master Plan is intended to guide new public and
private investment and development in the Plan
Area to ensure that they enhance and expand the
range of community-serving activities and amenities
and that they generate enough revenue to support
those resources—rather than “privatizing” important
public amenities.
2 3
3 3 3
2 1
2 4
5 min.
walk
10 min.
walk
5 min.
bike
5 min. electric
bike/scooter
4 7
5 5
6 6
Legend
2 3
4 Planned BRT Stations
Planned Multi-Use Paths
Significant expected housing and mixed-use
development
1 Existing Cucamonga Station (Metrolink) with
planned high-speed rail and bus rapid transit
6 7
5 Transit Priority Street, per General Plan
Victoria Gardens
Bike Priority Street, per General Plan
Planned High Speed Rail StationVictoria Gardens Day Creek Channel Park visionStadium facade Sports CenterPromenade connecting baseball, softball, and soccer fields (circa 1991)
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The Epicenter Master Plan Area (see map to
the right) has the potential to capitalize on
its proximity to nearby amenities, synergistic
uses, and multiple major transportation routes
and destinations. The major transportation
routes and destinations were identified on the
previous spread (pages 4 and 5), but the area
immediately surrounding the Plan Area also
presents an interesting mix of constraints and
opportunities for the planned mixed-use sports
and entertainment district. The surrounding
properties are all privately owned and mostly
commercial and industrial in use, suburban
in character, and separated from one another
and from the Plan Area by security fences and
walls. On the surface, that would appear mainly
to present constraints. However, there are clear
opportunities for the owners of those properties
and businesses to derive new customers and
new value from an increasingly popular district
centered on the Epicenter Sports Complex, and
there are relatively straightforward opportunities
to create new connections between several of
those properties and the Plan Area that might
benefit all parties. The Framework, concepts, and
regulations of this Master Plan aim to create and
strengthen ties to these nearby opportunities as
well as more distant ones via transit and bicycle
routes.

Multi-use path; direct
alignment to be determined
Epicenter Master Plan Area
Connectivity opportunities
between the Plan Area and
its context that are explored
throughout this Master Plan
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Arrow Rte
Foothill Blvd
Jack Benny Dr
Day Creek Blvd
Sebastian Way
Masi Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Stadium
Softball
Softball
Softball
Soccer
Animal
Center
Little
League
Animal
Center
Expansion
Site
Sports
Center
Substation
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The expanded activity and mix of uses envisioned for the Plan Area must be linked to each other and to the context with a clear, walkable urban framework. Therefore, this Master Plan organizes the area into a number of walkable blocks, defined and interconnected by a network of
streets oriented to pedestrians and bicyclists, and also accommodating significant amounts of vehicular traffic
and parking. This framework, shown in the diagram above, will systematically evolve the Plan Area from its current condition as isolated sports facilities surrounded by surface parking lots to its envisioned future as a lively sports and entertainment district. The existing public green—referred to as Epicenter Green in this Plan—at Rochester Ave and Stadium Way is to be enhanced as the central public space and activity hub of the new district.

The Vision
Existing Anchors
This district is unique because of its proximity to
Foothill Boulevard and because of its three major
City assets: the Stadium, Sports Center, and Animal
Center. All three of these anchors will continue to
evolve throughout the lifetime of this Plan. The Sports Center continually tailors its programming to the
community, the Animal Center aims to expand to
better serve its mission, and the City is seeking to
take better advantage of the Stadium as a year-round
multi-use venue (see page 37). The uses and amenities
described throughout this Master Plan are intended
to complement and leverage these existing, district-
defining anchors.

New, Lively Uses
Within each block, opportunity sites for new
commercial and mixed-use developments are defined
in this Master Plan (see Chapter 2). High-priority
opportunity sites include those facing the Epicenter
Green, facing Stadium Way as it connects the Stadium
to the Sports Center, and facing Rochester Ave and
Jack Benny Drive. Attractive new buildings or similar
facilities and a growing array of lively new uses and
activities along these streets that connect the Plan
Area to the rest of the Downtown are critical to
realizing the community's dream.

Near-Term Activation
Initial possibilities for activation include simply
leasing some of the parking spaces along key street
frontages to vendors who operate outdoor food,
beverage, and retail establishments out of temporary
or low-cost structures and shipping containers. Such
interventions are referred to as “tactical” because they can be established relatively quickly, have a relatively low cost, and need not displace many parking
spaces. Near-Term Action Items are identified in the
beginning of Chapter 2.

A Feasible Mix of Uses
Despite the near-term activation possibilities
mentioned above, there is a limit to how many
new food, beverage, and retail establishments
can thrive in the Plan Area without other new
uses and attractions. The Stadium, Sports Center,
and other athletic fields do not routinely attract
enough visitors to support a large number of
restaurants or shops, who must have customers
all day every day to stay in business. Through
economic feasibility study and in consultation
with food, beverage and family entertainment
businesses, the City's design and economic
consultants confirmed that such businesses
are attracted to mixed-use districts where a
significant concentration of residents and
jobs are already present or nearby, to provide
them with a steady supply of "built-in" local
customers—in addition to the visitors attracted
by anchors.

While the Plan Area is currently located in an
employment district, the district is of quite low
intensity in terms of employees per acre and per
day in the vicinity. Significant amounts of new
housing and office space are planned along
Foothill Boulevard less than a half-mile to the
north—many of which are anticipated to be
occupied within the next few years. Therefore,
it is a priority of this Master Plan to provide
multimodal connections to this new housing and
to nearby businesses, and to provide a home for
new jobs and businesses within the Plan Area.

This priority to both host new development and
connect to nearby uses is reflected in the network
described on pages 12–16, the development
concepts illustrated in Chapter 2, and the
standards of Chapter 3.
4 4
4 4
An active district can be initiated in the near-term. Mixed-use places attract a wide range of visitors.

For more on the walkable framework, see an An Active, Connected Public Realm on page 12. For more on Development Concepts, see Chapter 2: Focus Area Concepts on page 20. 1 Legend
1 4
2 3
Walkable Blocks: Potential
Development Sites
Gateway Intersection (see page 16)
The Fault Line Promenade linking
the Epicenter and Sports Center
Potential Pedestrian-Priority
Routes (also accommodating
bikes where possible)
Multi-Modal Internal Streets
Open Spaces
2 3
3 1: THE VISION IN CONTEXT
Plan Area
This diagram illustrates the intent of the plan
framework. The Regulating Plan (Section 3.1)
and associated standards implement this vision.

Arrow Rte
Jack Benny Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Sebastian Way
Victory Dr
Epicenter Green (see page 26 and
Standard EG-1 in Section 3.2)
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Design Approach
With feasibility in mind, the planning team studied a series of development scenarios for the Plan Area, with lively retail, food and beverage and entertainment uses on the ground floors and new hotels, offices, and other supportive uses on upper floors of mixed-use buildings. These uses can be supported by structured parking for visitors, tenants, customers, and for the ballpark and Sports Center. Potential strengths of this approach to building new activity and value in the Plan Area—particularly in the context that the new General Plan provides for the future of this area—include:

Implementation Strategy
In order to jump-start the evolution of the Plan Area from its current condition to a lively mixed-use district, a strategy of phased improvement and activation is recommended. The City of Rancho Cucamonga is well known for acting purposefully, rather than waiting for something good to happen.

Mixed-Use Leverages Value
Much of the ground floor area of mixed-use buildings—and often upper floor areas as well—is devoted to parking, with the street-facing ground floor spaces reserved for the retail, food and beverage, and entertainment uses prioritized for the Plan Area.

Mixed-use buildings with offices or hotel rooms above those lively uses tap the “air rights” of the City’s property to generate more value and revenue for the City, much of which can be used to construct new public space and recreational amenities for the district, and for the community.

Shared Parking is Efficient
In downtowns and other mixed-use districts, parking supplies can be flexibly shared among various users, reducing the total number of spaces and associated costs and acreages, freeing up capital and land for the lively fun uses the community wants. Given the anticipated mix of uses in the Plan Area, it is anticipated that the busiest time for restaurants and entertainment uses would be when there is a game or event at the stadium, such that a single parking space would
accommodate several stadium visitors who would also be
patrons of one or more of the surrounding businesses during their visit. The same is expected to be true of families attending community sporting events. And when large events are not in session, there will be more than enough parking for all the businesses.

Supporting the Foothill Blvd Downtown
Environment (see Focus Area 1 on GPU page 102)
As Victoria Gardens has demonstrated over the past 20 years, a lively, pedestrian-oriented environment with a mix of fun and useful businesses is a fine amenity and center of community activity, and also brings in visitors and their spending money from the surrounding region. It is worth noting that Victoria Gardens was originally planned as a mixed-use development, with the large parking blocks surrounding the retail center laid out for future housing infill. Several of those housing projects are just now in the planning stages and are anticipated to be constructed in the next few years. The Plan Area likewise has the potential to capitalize on nearby residents, as several housing and mixed-use projects along Foothill Boulevard to the north of the Plan Area are planned. The Plan Area can complement and synergize with Victoria Gardens and the rest of Focus Area 1 (General Plan, page 102) to deliver much of the envisioned “real downtown Rancho Cucamonga” within years, rather than decades.

1. Recruit Investment and Development
Beginning prior to Master Plan adoption, and continuing indefinitely, the City should actively recruit businesses to provide new food and beverage, retail, recreational and entertainment uses within the District. Initial recruitments will likely be “tactical” vendors, as described in item 3, below; in later phases of development, this will also include tenants within ground floor spaces of new mixed-use buildings.

2. Adopt this Master Plan
This Plan is a flexible framework for organizing the land within the Plan Area into urban blocks, with a network of beautiful, comfortable, human-scale public spaces connecting them
and providing valuable new addresses for new uses and
development.

3. Near-Term Action Items
Build and Activate the Hub (see pages 24-33)
As a catalytic public improvement to increase the pace and quality of business recruitment, the City should improve the existing park at the main entry to the Stadium and softball fields, and also Stadium Way as it enters from Rochester.

In this Master Plan, this park is referred to as the "Epicenter Green." New branded streetscape, signage and landmarks will signal that this is the hub of an important place and regional destination. New branding and signage should provide a unified identity for the Stadium, ballfields, Sports Center, and future mixed-use district. Improvements to the pedestrian promenade coming in from the park are also recommended. These public improvements will provide the area with an impressive new “front door,” and a new address for the early phases of new businesses and amenities. Concurrently with the park and Stadium Way improvements, food trucks and similar “tactical” (temporary or mobile) food and beverage amenities can be invited to set up along the edges of existing parking lots that face into the upgraded park. The City should also increase the programming of the park, with activities that might include outdoor movies on a large screen many evenings, a weekly farmers market or other public market event, periodic or seasonal street fairs, and other community events. All such events should be promoted via district signage, online, and print media.

4. Longer-Term Vision
Build Around the Hub (see pages 36-45)
Through on-going recruitment and requests for development proposals, the City should actively seek to sell or ground lease opportunity parcels as defined in the Master Plan. After the improvement of the Epicenter Green, next phases of catalytic development could occur on either side of the Green and to the northeast of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way, as depicted in Chapter 2.

Recruit tactical vendors
Hotels over active uses leverage value
A Master Plan organizes the effort
Shared parking
The hub to serve as gateway, or “front door”
Pedestrian-oriented environment
Build around the hub
Sports
Center
Rochester Ave
Stadium
The Hub
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
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An Active, Connected Public Realm
A Multi-Modal Network
Per the General Plan Toolkit Part 3, it is imperative
that, with new development, a human scale
network of multi-modal streets and public spaces
with active frontages be systematically extended
into large vacant or underutilized sites (General
Plan, page 308). Multiple drives already exist within
the Plan Area, offering access to parking lots and
existing uses, but they should be improved and
fronted to create a vibrant, walkable environment.

New connections and spaces should be introduced
as diagrammed above and described in this section.

The Chapter 3 standards of this Master Plan ensure
that this multi-modal network is implemented over
time with any new development.
1 Multi-Modal Streets
In coordination with wider bike network improvements,
Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte are envisioned to feature
more comfortable and safe bike lanes over time. Also, just to the east of the Plan Area, Southern California Edison land is planned to feature a multi-purpose trail, and the General Plan (Figure M-4, page 157) identifies Jack Benny Dr (and its continuation to Day Creek Blvd) as a Community Trail.

These routes link to Foothill Blvd, Victoria Gardens, and beyond. In order to leverage this multi-modal context,
streets within the Plan Area should be made safe for both cars and cyclists, with wide sidewalks for pedestrians, shaded by trees. Some portions of streets, such as the
portion of Stadium Way which curves around the Epicenter Green, can further prioritize pedestrians and cyclists.

Potentially, that curve could be designed as a shared
curbless street which can be closed to traffic for big events.

A safe, comfortable multi-modal street network
Bike lanes could be protected by parked cars.

A multi-modal network offers connections to nearby
bus lines on Milliken Ave and Foothill Blvd.

Medians make streets crossable and beautiful.

Bike lanes could be raised—whether up on the sidewalk or between sidewalk and street level—for greater safety.

Internal streets in the Plan Area need to prioritize the pedestrian experience. In priority locations, such as Stadium Way west of Rochester Ave, a curbless design could allow for the street segment to be temporarily closed to vehicular traffic for special events or game days.

Legend
1 2
3 3
3 Epicenter Green (see page 26 and
Standard EG-1 in Section 3.2)
Gateway Intersection (see page 16)
The Fault Line Promenade linking the
Epicenter and Sports Center
Potential Pedestrian-Priority Routes (also
accommodating bikes where possible)
Multi-Modal Internal Streets
Open Spaces
2 1: THE VISION IN CONTEXT
This diagram illustrates the intent of the plan
framework. The Regulating Plan (Section 3.1)
and associated standards implement this vision.

Arrow Rte
Jack Benny Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Sebastian Way
Victory Dr
Plan Area
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The Fault Line Promenade
Various existing and potential pedestrian routes, as
diagrammed on page 12, have the opportunity to stitch
the area together and lessen the need to drive between
destinations. Particularly important is the route from
the Sports Center to the Stadium entrance, which could
be branded The Fault Line to complement Epicenter
branding and improve wayfinding. This should become
a beautiful, comfortable promenade forming an
east-west spine through Focus Area North. Its edges
should feature . The first phase of The Fault Line (west of Rochester Ave) is a key Action Item (see page 29)
intended to bring life to the gateway to the Epicenter.

Open Spaces
Open spaces serve as outdoor rooms for the community and give an area a sense of place. The Epicenter already has a great amount of open space, considering the size and number of ball fields as well as the Epicenter Green. Key to the success of the area will be leveraging these existing spaces with robust, creative programming and strategic improvements to make the spaces more attractive and more flexibly usable.

An elegant promenade shade structure
Flexibly-programmable open space
Gateway hub: Epicenter Green
Sports Center: underutilized landscaped area*
Frame outdoor rooms with new development
Actively utilized open space
Tactical hub of activity, featuring food trucks
Flexible-use edges of streets and open spaces
Along the Epicenter Green, the Fault Line promenade should be lined with tactical uses (see page 30), gathering, and outdoor dining and be highly connected to the open space.

The promenade along Stadium Way, east of Rochester Ave, can provide extra space to accommodate bikes and other active means of transportation. 1: THE VISION IN CONTEXT
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Creating a Gateway
The intersection of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way is intended to serve as an impressive new “front door” to the area. This intersection should visually celebrate one’s arrival at the Epicenter. To announce the gateway, vertical, tower-like elements could flank the street, or a structure could even span the street.

Paving materials, with distinct colors and patterns, can also draw attention and slow drivers, making the intersection safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Pedestrian and cyclist crossing should be facilitated, in order to strengthen the connection between the Sports Center and new development on the east side of Rochester Ave with the rest of the Plan Area to the west of Rochester Ave. Furthermore, new development and improvements should enhance all 4 corners of this gateway, as illustrated to the right.

Vertical Monument or Structure
Gateway structure could
include bike storage.

Corner Entry to Active Use Corner Plaza
Attractive Wall/Screen for Substation
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4 1
1 1
2 33
3 Phased & Shared Parking Strategy
Empty Lot
Opportunities
Overflow surface parking supporting
the first phases of development could
be provided on vacant or under-utilized
land, such as the northwest corner of
Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte (which
will be home to the Animal Center in
the longer term). This is an affordable
and convenient near-term solution.

Making Way for New, Fun Uses
Remaining Lots
At each phase of development, and
especially in the foreseeable future,
many existing surface parking spaces
will remain, along with their solar
collectors. In places where surface
parking is relocated, the solar collectors
can move along with them—whether
to other surface lots or on top of
parking structures. In all cases, parking
should be well screened by liner uses
or landscaping.

Shared Structures
A shared parking structure, ideally
located within Focus Area North (see
Chapter 2), would free up a lot of
valuable land around the hub of the
Plan Area. Parking arrangements could
allow some spaces to be dedicated to
certain users, while other spaces are
available for public use.

Park Once Strategy
Legend
Adjacent privately-owned
parking: potential sharing
opportunities
Near-term parking opportunity
on empty lot (before the Animal
Center expands to this location)
Walkable routes to Epicenter
from parking
The above inventory demonstrates how robust the supply of parking is in and around the Epicenter. The existing supply, even with only minimal sharing of parking between uses, easily accommodates the busiest days of the year—including sold-out baseball games. In order to accommodate new development as envisioned by this Master Plan, some lots will need to be displaced, and the necessary parking demands will need to be met through more efficient, creative means than a sea of surface parking. Strategies for phasing and sharing parking should be formally spelled out through a Parking Management Plan (see Concept 3C on page 72). Example strategies are described on the following page.

There is currently an over-supply
of parking in the wider context.

This Master Plan strongly supports
the strategy of coordinating and
negotiating with neighbor properties
to share parking, to the benefit of
all property owners and visitors. A
walkable network connecting all
parking and uses allow visitors to
park once while visiting multiple
destinations in the area.
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Lots A through F are lettered to facilitate referencing. These lot letters are used in the Playbook spreadsheet to describe possible locations of new uses, improvements, and programming (see Chapter 4).

Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Plan Area
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02 A wide variety of development possibilities could accomplish the vision for the Epicenter Master Plan Area. The range of preferred possibilities, however, varies by both location and by point in time. For that reason, this Chapter explores development and improvement concepts through the lens of Focus Areas in both the near- and long-term. Concepts and priorities are included to describe and illustrate how each new development, whether in the near term or further in the future, contributes to the longer-term goal. While this Master Plan applies to the entire Plan Area, the specific concepts explored here focus on land currently owned by the City, as it is not known if or when privately held land may be redeveloped. This Chapter includes the following sections:

Introduction
Focus Area
Concepts
Focus Areas Introduction
Near-Term Action Items: Focus Area North
Longer-Term Vision: Focus Area North
Near-Term Action Items: Focus Area South
Longer-Term Vision: Focus Area South
2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
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Focus Areas
Introduction
Focus Area South
The southern portion of the plan
area features more existing uses
than Focus Area North, including
the Animal Center and Sofive Soccer
Center. Therefore, minimal change
is anticipated in the near term.

Eventually, the Animal Center is
expected to grow—with a new building
at Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte—and
other uses could expand the active
environment envisioned for Focus Area
North.

Focus Area North
Focus Area North features the gateway
to both the Stadium, softball fields, and
the Sports Center, at the intersection
of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way.

This Master Plan identifies and studies two focus areas: Focus Area North and Focus Area South, labeled above as 1 and 2, respectively. The following pages identify the unique existing conditions and possibilities associated with each of these focus areas in both the near- and longer-term. They are envisioned to play slightly different roles, especially in the near-term.
1 2
1 2
2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
Arrow Rte
Jack Benny Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Sebastian Way
Victory Dr
Plan Area
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Near-Term Action Items
Focus Area North
Build and Activate the Hub
As discussed in Chapter 1, the Epicenter Green and its context can serve as a hub for the area. In the near term, it can become a fun and active gateway to both the Stadium, softball fields, and the Sports Center.

Alongside these action items, the stadium should feature increased programming to become a more active year-roung anchor, as discussed in Chapter 1. Programming which requires no significant alterations to the stadium can be accommodated in the near term, but in the longer term, the stadium could be adapted to more flexibly host a wider range of events. This is discussed further on page 37. 1 1
3 3
4 4
6 6
6 6
5 5
6 2
2 22
3 2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
5 Legend
1 2
3 6
7 7
4 5
Improve the Epicenter Green
Introduce Promenades
Tactical Activation
Manage Parking
Stadium Programming
Improve the Beer Garden
Connect to Sebastian Way (see connection standards in Chapter 3) Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
Sebastian Way
Plan Area
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Action Item #1: Improve the Epicenter Green
The park at the southwest corner of Stadium Way and Rochester Ave has the opportunity to serve as an active public space and front door to the area. Walkable promenades should line its edges, creating an enjoyable connection between Rochester Ave, nearby parking, and the entry to the baseball fields. The design of the park itself should flexibly accommodate a wide range of events and programming, from farmers markets to movies and yoga. New branded streetscape, signage and landmarks will signal that this is the hub of an important place and regional destination. See Standard EG-1 in Section 3.2 for access and size requirements.
1 A
A
A
B
C
F
F
E
C
E
C
C
C
D
C
D
B
Create an open space which can contain furniture and play equipment but remains mostly open and flexible. Existing trees within the space should be preserved.

Create a central stage to anchor the space and accommodate performances and other events.

Organize sidewalks and promenades (see Action Item #2) to give a clear form to the space and connect it to the context.

Improve the existing beer garden to better engage Stadium Way, the Epicenter Green, and the entry to the Epicenter and softball fields (see Action Item #4).

Create a small corner building which marks the gateway to the Epicenter Green at the southwest corner of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way. This structure could serve various uses in support of operations and visitors, such as: bike parking, ticketing offices, service storage, and public bathrooms.

Create an iconic structure to shade tactical retail and restaurant uses (see Action Item #3). A large billboard-like sign and screen could: 1) serve as a branding opportunity visible from Rochester Ave; 2) screen movies; and 3) live-stream games and events taking place in the Stadium. For movie nights and certain events, the Epicenter Green could be ticketed or extra revenue could simply be generated from the additional traffic for the tactical retail and food and beverage establishments.

Approaching the Epicenter Green from Rochester Ave and Stadium Way Smaller shade structures could also offer shade for walking and gathering along the edges of the space.

Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Rochester Ave
E
D
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Action Item #2: Introduce Promenades
Promenades and sidewalks play a critical role in the multi-modal public realm network described in Chapter 1 on pages 12 to 17. Along the south and east edges of the Epicenter Green, a first phase of the Fault Line (page 14) can be built. Promenades will eventually connect the Epicenter and softball fields to the Sports Center and ultimately, to the multi-use path in the SCE property. While the overall network will accommodate cyclists at certain locations, this near-term portion is to be focused on the pedestrian experience and lined with activity (see Action Item #3). The portion along the southern edge of the Epicenter Green is to be a direct continuation of the existing promenade between Stadium and softball field.
2 Minor sidewalks, such as those within the Epicenter Green and along Stadium Way also provide a comfortable route that can host seating and be lined by tactical retail and food and beverage establishments (see Action Item #3).

Flexibly-programmable open space, activated by tactical structures, such as tents or food trucks.

A place to watch the game and play
A place for strolling, gathering, and visiting tactical dining and retail A place for community fitness and wellness
Action Item #1 Continued
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Action Item #4: Improve the Beer Garden
The current stadium beer garden near stadium way provides tables and chairs, but it fails to activate the adjacent public realm. This space should better serve as a dining and drinking terrace which overlooks and engages the promenade, Stadium Way, and Epicenter Green. Furthermore, it could be used outside of game days to support activity in this gateway hub area. This can be achieved by maintaining visibility between the beer garden and other spaces and creating a more monumental entrance to Stadium Way, while still meeting the Alcoholic Beverage Code.

Furthermore, elements such as shade structures, planted trellises, string lights, and small trees can bring beauty and shade.

Drinking and dining covered by a trellis and canvas sailsThe existing space, closed off from its surroundings Structures can provide shade and a sense of enclosure while maintaining high visibility to the surroundings.
4 Action Item #3:

Tactical Activation
Tactical structures—such as tents, food
trucks, and shipping containers—can
allow food, beverage, and retail uses to
line the public realm during events or
throughout the year. When successful,
such uses can remain as they are
indefinitely or they can become housed
in more permanent spaces within new
development in the future. This activation
could be as simple as food trucks and/or
tents, or the City could build an attractive
shade structure and lease space under
it to retail. The design shown to the left
proposes such a structure lining the
southern portion of Epicenter Green,
allowing retail and food and beverage
establishments to front onto the green.

Shipping containers, food trucks, and airstreams can serve as micro-commercial spaces on any edge of the Epicenter Green. For example, food trucks could easily park along Stadium Way, lining Epicenter Green.

Shade structures make it easier to host events and temporary uses, such as markets. 3 2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
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Action Item #5:

Connect to Sebastian Way
Several of the parking lots serving the commercial buildings directly to the north of the Epicenter ballfields extend to the south edge of those properties, so that a simple opening could provide access between the Epicenter and those businesses for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists (see Standard C-1 in Chapter 3). This could provide a flow of potential new customers for the existing businesses in those buildings, which lack the exposure that the commercial center to the north has by virtue of its frontage on Foothill Boulevard. In the longer term, such connectivity might enable the owners of those buildings to lease spaces to food and beverage businesses or sports and entertainment businesses. Additionally, potential parking sharing or leasing arrangements with these surrounding businesses could allow them to get more value from their parking lots which are underutilized in the evenings. A connection to Sebastian Way would also put the hundreds of planned new housing units along Foothill Boulevard within a comfortable 5- to 10-minute walk—or even shorter bike ride—of the amenities of the Plan Area.

In the near-term, such a connection should be made extending from the improved Epicenter Green, around the outfield of the Stadium, and up north to Sebastian Way. There are a number of alternatives regarding the design of this route, depending on budget and access needs. In the near term, it could be as simple as an improvement and extension of the existing sidewalk and drive, or it could be a redesign of the existing drive into a shared multi-modal way. In either case, this shall be a phased approach resulting in a full multi-modal way in the long-term.

Action Item #6: Manage Parking
There is currently a surplus of parking in the Plan Area and within adjacent private developments. However, now is the time for the City to begin monitoring the use of its parking lots in order to inform future shared parking interventions as the Plan Area is developed. The cost of new parking solutions—such as structured parking—can limit the development potential of the area, so first phases should take advantage of low-cost, strategic opportunities that already exist. In the near-term, most existing parking lots will remain—along with their solar collectors—and can support new tactical uses around the improved Epicenter Green. As the level of activity and success of the area grows, some overflow parking may be necessary during specific time periods. First, overflow surface parking supporting the initial phases of development could be provided on vacant or under-utilized land, such as the northwest corner of Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte (home to the Animal Center in the longer term). If and when more parking is needed, opportunities exist for sharing parking with nearby developments, as identified and discussed in Chapter 1 on page 19 and Action Item #5 on page 32. These are affordable and convenient near-term solutions.

Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Sebastian Way
Epicenter
Green
Beer
Garden
Stadium
Commercial
to North
Stadium Way
Epicenter
Green
Rochester Ave
Future Housing
and Mixed-Use
N
N
Stadium
Commercial Uses
and Under-Utilized
Parking
Masi Dr
Sebastian Way
Foothill Blvd
Stadium Way
Linking the heart of the Plan Area to Sebastian Way creates a synergistic connection with many nearby uses. 6 5
Overflow parking opportunity at Arrow Rte and Rochester Ave The Plan Area currently has a surplus of parking space. 2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
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5 3
4 1
2 6
Near-Term Strategies
for the Future Animal
Center Lot
Animal-Oriented Use
The empty lot at the northwest corner
of Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte, which
is reserved for a future Animal Center
expansion, could accommodate an interim
animal-related use on a lease that would
expire when the Animal Center is expected
to be built. This would put this location on
the map for pet-owners, paving the way for
the future Animal Center.

Focus Area South
Plan Area
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Longer-Term Vision: Focus Area North
An All-Day, Year-Round
Active Environment
The near-term activation described in the previous section is intended to catalyze a higher concentration of life and activity around this focus area in the long term. Over time, existing parking lots can be developed to accommodate
this growing concentration of activity and further enliven an improved public realm. New buildings can house the
tactical commercial uses and programming that will have succeeded in the near-term as well as other new uses
which support the identity and life of the area.

Legend
1 2
4 4
2 2
1 4
3 3
3 2
3 4
6 7
77 Leverage the Stadium
Active Frontages Line the Public Realm
Compatible Supporting Uses
Shared Structured Parking Supply
Extended connection to the east (see
Connection C-8 in Section 3.2)
Connections to adjacent sites (see
connection standards in Chapter 3)
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5 5
6 6
Tactical Plaza in Sports Center
Landscaped Area (see page 15)
Leverage the Stadium's Value
As discussed in Chapter 1, the City has the opportunity to utilize the Stadium more consistently throughout the year, bringing more fun events to the community and attracting more patrons to businesses in the area. Currently, Minor League Baseball home games bring significant crowds to the district for just a few hours on 67 days per year—only about one sixth of days—and well below 10% of business hours throughout the year. As is the case with venues across the country, no single tenant or use can adequately leverage such a significant asset. Furthermore, no tenant is guaranteed to be permanent, and the stadium can continue to be an anchor for the area even if tenant(s) change.

Monster trucks and other shows that can operate within
arenas of varying size
programming, marketing, and branding. If necessary, and in coordination with the operator, the City could renovate the stadium to more effectively and easily accommodate a wide range of programming. Some programming possibilities are illustrated on this page. In addition to these full-venue options, potions of the stadium could be rented out for private events such as: graduations, birthdays, weddings, corporate meetings, and batting cage use.
1 Other entertainment options, such as concerts
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
Sebastian Way
Plan Area
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Primary Active
Frontages
Primary active frontages line important
portions of streets and open spaces
in the area. They should be filled
with shops and restaurants whose
activity spills out into the public
realm. In particular, businesses and
organizations which make use of the
Epicenter Green are prioritized along
its edges.

Secondary Active Frontages
As in most parts of most cities, there is not enough
demand in the area to fill all frontages with shops and restaurants. Secondary frontages should still engage the street with ground floor entries and windows, but they
can include a wider range of uses. In addition to shops and restaurants, ground floors in secondary frontage
environments include lobbies, amenity spaces, hotels,
fitness-related businesses, other commercial uses, and a limited amount of well-screened parking.

Activity spills out from ground floors into the public realm.

Active uses occupy ground floor frontages, regardless of upper floor use.

Well-screened parking in secondary locations
Flexible frontages can host shops or offices Lobby and amenity space for offices or hotels Active Frontages Line
the Public Realm
The area is envisioned as a lively
environment, oriented around athletics
and entertainment, among other
complementary uses. As such, its streets
and open spaces must be lined with active
ground floors which bring life to the public
realm. Primary active frontages include
shops and restaurants, while secondary
active frontages can include a wider range
of uses, as there is not enough market
demand to support shops and restaurants
throughout the plan area. Primary and
secondary active frontages are identified
in Figure 2-1 (above) and described on the
following page.

Primary active frontage example
FIGURE 2–1: ACTIVE FRONTAGES
Active Frontages
Primary
Secondary
This Figure serves as a simplified reference for this conceptual Section. The full regulating plan is included in Section 3.1: Regulation Plan. 2 2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
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Compatible Supporting Uses
The Stadium, Sports Center, and other existing uses do not routinely attract enough visitors to support an influx of new restaurants or retail shops, which require customers all day and every day to stay in business. Such businesses are attracted to mixed-use districts where a significant concentration of residents and jobs are already present, to provide them with steady supply of “built- in” local customers. Therefore, uses such as hotels and offices are needed to bring life to the area and support new, fun businesses, and connections must be made to nearby housing. Any supporting uses must also include highly active uses on the ground floor, engaging the public realm.

Shared Structured Parking Supply
More efficient parking strategies, through the use of shared parking arrangements and structured parking, are necessary in order to make room for new activity in the area. A small amount of new development could occur without a structure, but a parking structure—or structures— will help as uses displace existing parking lots. A parking structure to the northeast of the intersection of Stadium Way and Rochester Ave is required to have at least 500 parking spaces (see Section 3.2).

For reference, the footprint depicted on page 36 at that location accommodates 150 spaces per floor. Any other structure in Focus Area north would need to be calibrated to the intensity of new development.

Example of a shared parking structure with liner buildings Upper floor offices and hotels support active ground floors and a lively public realm.

Hotels, offices, and other Epicenter-compatible uses support active ground floors and a lively public realm.
4 3
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Animal Center
As the Animal Center continues to advance its mission,
it is in need of a new facility. This facility would host the public-facing program of the Center, including public
education and training and animals in need of adoption. It would feature an inviting entry and animals highly visible from the street to encourage adoptions and community
awareness of the Animal Center. The future building could take a number of forms, but it could feature one or more courtyards which serve as play yards. In such a case, the building would be oriented around the play yards and
form their boundary—rather than fences doing so.

Animal-Related Uses
Other animal-related uses in the area would
both leverage and support the Animal Center.

Dog-centric programming and events
Businesses offering pet toys, food, grooming would synergize with the Animal Center. 2 1
2 5
3 4
5 Expanding the Active
District
Over time, the active environment envisioned
for Focus Area North could expand southward.

The Little League field site may remain for
the lifetime of this plan. However, if it were
to be relocated (see 3G on page 72) and this
site were to be redeveloped, a new street
connection would be required per Chapter 3.
1 This Animal Center design by WA features courtyard play areas lined by kennels and other programming.

Way
Stadium
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
Arrow Rte
Victory Dr
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6 Longer-Term Vision: Focus Area South
Plan Area
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Sports-Anchored Uses
A sport-anchored use could relate well with the
existing baseball fields and the existing Sofive Soccer Center. Businesses such as Chicken N Pickle (Pickle
Ball) and Top Golf are essentially food and beverage
establishments which use a sport as a main attraction.

Such a use could be developed on open land, the
Little League field site if it were to relocate, or in
coordination with the Sofive Soccer Center pending
its future needs. Such uses often feature some lesser
active frontages—such as edges of courts or fields—so
they are more appropriate for Focus Area South than
Focus Area North, which requires consistent active
frontage around the gateway hub.

Shared Structured
Parking
Like Focus Area North, more efficient parking
strategies will be needed if this area sees an influx of new uses which displace existing parking and bring
their own parking needs. It is recommended that a
parking structure be built in Focus Area North first to support the gateway hub, but an additional shared
structure could be built here in the future. It shall
feature a “future-proof” design—unless such features
would render the project financially infeasible—
meaning that it could easily adapt to accommodate
other uses in the future. Future-proof parking design
elements include flat floors and 10-foot minimum
floor-to-floor heights. Any structure along Jack Benny
Dr, Rochester Ave, and Arrow Rte should feature as
much active ground floor frontage as possible.

Restaurants anchored by pickle ball and open space
Large parking structure with ground floor retail liner
Large shared parking structure with micro-retail liner
Restaurants anchored by pickle ball and open space Retail and restaurants anchored by a surf club 2: FOCUS AREA CONCEPTS
1 1
1 1
1 1 1
2 2
2 2
2 Buildings line and activate the streets and open spaces per the standards of Chapter 3.

Development site
Parking and athletic fields, courts, or pools are located next to and behind buildings.

Example Sports-Anchored Use Site Plans
Street
Street
Open Space
Adjacent Site
Adjacent Site
Adjacent Site
Adjacent Site
Street
Street
Street
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03 This Chapter establishes development regulations that implement the vision for the Plan Area described and illustrated in Chapters 1 and 2 and in the General Plan (see General Plan Focus Area 1 on page 102). This Master Plan is the guiding regulatory document for the Epicenter Master Plan Area (see Applicability on the following spread for more). This Chapter includes the following sections:

Introduction
Development
Regulations

3.1: Regulating Plan & Applicability

3.3: Street Standards

3.2: Development Standards

3.4: Allowed Uses
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200’
100’
0’
Regulating Plan
Connection (C-1 through 8)
Primary Active Frontage (FR-1 and B-1)
Secondary Active Frontage (FR-2 and B-2)
Vehicular Access from ROW Allowed (P-1)
Unlined Parking Allowed on All Floors (P-2)
Unlined Parking Allowed on Upper Floors Only
(P-3)
Shared Parking Structure (P-4)
Facade Break (FA-4)
Epicenter Green (EG-1)
Facade Corner Treatment (FA-1 through 3)

3.1: Regulating Plan
& Applicability
FIGURE 3.1: REGULATING PLAN
Stadium Way
Sebastian Way
Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
Jack Benny Dr
SCE Property
Arrow Rte
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Applicability
This Master Plan is the guiding regulatory document
for the Epicenter Master Plan Area. If the City receives an application for development that meets the
intent of the Master Plan on any portion of City-
owned sites, the City will initiate a General Plan
amendment and a Zoning Map amendment to
redesignate and rezone the development site to the
appropriate City Corridor High Land Use Designation
and corresponding Corridor 2 (CO2) Zone of the
Rancho Cucamonga Development Code (referred
to herein as "Development Code"). This shall occur at
the time of the application for a subdivision map and
design review of the development application. Where
standards of the CO2 Zone of the Development Code
conflict with the standards of this Master Plan, the
Master Plan standards shall prevail.

Plan Area
How To Use
The Regulating Plan (Figure 3.1)
identifies where the standards in
Sections 3.2 and 3.4 shall apply. The
standards in Section 3.3 vary by street.

Legend
C-1 C-2
P-4
C-5
C-6
C-1
FA-4
C-7
C-4
EG-1
C-4
C-3
C-8
FA-1
FA-1
FA-1
FA-2
FA-3

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Connections
In order to implement a connected multimodal
network, the following standards apply wherever
proposed new development abuts the locations
marked in Figure 3.1, whether on City-owned or
private property. All improvements shall be done
in coordination with affected property owners.

These connection standards implement General
Plan Mobility & Access Standards MA-2, MA-3, and
MA-5 (GP Volume 2, Chapter 4). These standards
also provide more specific, refined direction to
implement the intent of General Plan Figure FA-2
(Focus Area 1: Downtown Rancho Cucamonga, pg.
103). Any new or improved vehicular streets are also
subject to the Street Design Standards of Section

3.3 of this Chapter. These standards include:

C-1 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection between Stadium Way and
Sebastian Way, accommodating pedestrians,
cyclists, and vehicular traffic.

C-2 Required Connection. There shall be a
new connection between Stadium Way
and the adjacent development to the north,
accommodating pedestrians, cyclists, and
vehicular traffic.

C-3 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection between Stadium Way and the
development to the south, accommodating
pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicular traffic.

C-4 Required Connection ("The Fault Line,"
page 14). There shall be a new pedestrian
promenade connection from the Stadium and
softball fields to the Sports Center. It shall be
at least 15' in width, in addition to any other
public frontage elements or adjacent roadway
(see the Stadium Way example section on
page 57). Portions of this promenade shall also
accommodate cyclists, pending coordination
with the contextual bike network.

C-5 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection between Stadium Way and
Arrow Rte, accommodating pedestrians and
cyclists. If the Little League field were to
be redeveloped (if it were accommodated
elsewhere; see also Concept 3G on page 72),

3.2: Development Standards
this route shall also accommodate vehicles. The
resultant blocks to the east and west of this
connection shall be deemed in conformance
with Development Code Chapter 17.138, despite
their large size. However, due to their large size,
additional pedestrian connections through
these blocks are encouraged where possible.

C-6 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection from the north-south promenade
of the Epicenter complex to the north,
accommodating pedestrians.

C-7 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection from Victory Drive to the north and/
or northwest, accommodating pedestrians
and vehicular traffic. The exact location of
this connection is flexible, but the long-term
intent of General Plan Figure FA-2 (page 103)
is to connect Victory Drive, Millennium Court,
and Sebastian Way / Masi Drive if and when
the adjacent properties are redeveloped. This
connection could help alleviate gameday traffic
and also function as a backdoor connection for
other modes of transportation, including cyclists
and transit.

C-8 Required Connection. There shall be a new
connection from the Fault Line (see Standard
C-4) to the proposed multi-purpose trail on
Southern California Edison (SCE) property
(see General Plan Figure FA-2, pg. 103),
accommodating pedestrians and cyclists,
pending the approval of SCE.

Building Placement
B-1 Build-To Range and Buildout Percentage.

Buildings shall be placed according to the
standards of Table 3.2. In the Primary Active
Frontage Overlay, parking lots shall be located
behind buildings. In the Secondary Active
Frontage Overlay, parking lots shall be located
behind and adjacent to buildings, subject to
the required buildout percentage. See page 52
for Frontage standards associated with these
overlays.

As stated in the introduction to this chapter (Introduction & Applicability), the following standards supplement and, where conflicting, supersede the standards applicable to the Corridor 2 (CO2) Form-Based Zone, as regulated by the Rancho Cucamonga Development Code.

Design Standard 1 Primary Active Frontage Secondary Active Frontage A Build-To Range (min.–max.) 0–12 ft2 8–12 ft
C / D Buildout Percentage (min.) 100%4 50%3
K Surface Parking Setback (min.) 30 feet min
(behind building)
Set back at least as much as
building on site
Allowed Building Entrance and
Facades Types (located within
Private Frontage Area)
• Shopfront and Gallery,
Arcade, Terrace, and
Recessed Variations5
• Forecourt5
• Shopfront and Gallery,
Arcade, Terrace, and
Recessed Variations5
• Small Front Yard and
Porch, Stoop Variations5
• Forecourt5
Notes:

1. See Figure 3.2: Regulating Plan. for graphic depictions of standards and locations of Primary and Secondary Active Frontages..

2. The combined width of the Private Frontage Area (see Development Code § 17.130.050) and Sidewalk Zone (see Section 3.3) shall be 15 feet minimum. For example, the building may have a setback of 0 feet only if the development site fronts onto a sidewalk or promenade of 15 feet minimum width.

3. Exception: if the proposed development FAR is less than .75, there may not be enough building footprint to line 50% of the frontage length. In this case, the minimum Buildout Percentage is 30%.

4. Exception: If a corner plaza is located at the northeast corner of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way (see Standard FA-2), Primary Active Frontage shall line that plaza. In other locations, forecourts and plazas may replace up to 30% of the frontage length.

5. See Development Code Chapter 17.132 for standards associated with these types.

TABLE 3.2: DESIGN STANDARDS
FIGURE 3.2: SITE PLAN DIMENSIONS DIAGRAM
D
D
C
K
K
C
Development Site Line
(Property Line)
Private Frontage Area
Building Footprint
Build-To Range (along
a street or open space)
Allowed Parking Area
Curb
A
max.

A
min.

A
max.

Secondary Active Frontage
Secondary Active Frontage
Primary Active Frontage Primary Active Frontage
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Frontage
The building entrance, building facade, and design
of the private frontage area is subject to the
applicable standards for the CO2 zone found in the
Development Code. Additionally, in order to ensure
that appropriately active private frontages line the
public realm, the following standards apply:

FR-1 Primary Active Frontage. These frontages
shall be highly active and define key locations
in the Plan Area. Ground floor uses within 30
feet of the facade shall be limited to those
identified in Section 3.4, and the design is
subject to the standards of Table 3.2. The
Private Frontage Area shall be designed as an
extension of the Pedestrian Way (see Section

3.3).

FR-2 Secondary Active Frontage. These frontages
host a more flexible range of types and uses—
including any use found under 'Epicenter
General' in Section 3.4. Their design is subject
to the standards of Table 3.2. The Private
Frontage Area in front of unbuilt portions of
the site shall be lined with drought-tolerant
plants, and a low wall in front of parkings lots
is recommended.

Parking & Vehicular Access
Adequate provisions for traffic circulation, parking,
and pedestrian safety shall be provided to the
satisfaction of the planning director and the
city engineer. Proof of adequate parking may
be required at the discretion of the planning
director. In order to ensure that new development
accommodates vehicular access and parking
without compromising the quality of the public
realm, the following standards apply:

P-1 Vehicular Access. Vehicular access is
permitted, but not required, to be taken at this
location. Access along Rochester Ave, Jack
Benny Dr, and Arrow Rte shall be right-in/right-
out only.

P-2 Unlined Structured Parking Allowed on All
Floors. Parking structures may be exposed to
the right-of-way without a liner at this location.

The parking structure facade shall be set back
a minimum five feet from the building facade;
screened with a living wall; and/or designed
with punched openings to simulate habitable
space. The Private Frontage Area in front of
unlined parking structures shall be landscaped
with drought-tolerant plants.

P-3 Unlined Structured Parking Allowed on
Upper Floors Only. On upper floors only (not
the ground floor), parking structures may be
exposed to the right-of-way without a liner
at this location. The parking structure facade
shall be set back a minimum five feet from the
building facade; screened with a living wall;
and/or designed with punched openings to
simulate habitable space. The ground floor and
its private frontage area design is still subject
the applicable standards of this Section and the
Development Code.

P-4 Shared Parking Structure. A parking structure,
accommodating a minimum of 500 stalls,
shall be provided at this approximate location.

If it is to be privately developed, the specific
location and shared stall quantity is subject to a
development agreement with the City.

P-5 Surface Parking. Surface parking is considered
an unbuilt portion of the site and therefore
does not contribute toward the required
buildout percentage. The Private Frontage Area
in front of unbuilt portions of the site shall be
lined with drought-tolerant plants, and a low
wall in front of parkings lots is recommended.
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Facades
With the intent that facades create the beautiful
and functional walls of public outdoor rooms and
streets, the following standards apply:

FA-1 Corner Treatment: Building. The building at
this corner shall help define the gateway to
the Epicenter in a welcoming manner with
a special corner treatment. This shall include
a corner tower, dome, massing, or parapet
element and enhanced transparency into
the building at the corner, in the form of a
prominent entry or set of windows.

FA-2 Corner Treatment: Building or Plaza. Either a
building or a small plaza defined by building(s)
shall help define the gateway to the Epicenter
at this location. If it is a building, this shall
include a corner tower, dome, or parapet
element and enhanced transparency into
the building at the corner, in the form of a
prominent entry or set of windows. If a plaza,
its size shall not exceed 85 feet by 85 feet and
it shall be lined by Primary Active Frontage.

FA-3 Corner Treatment: Screening. A decorative
screen or wall with landscaping and/or a mural
shall line the edge of the electrical substation
at this location.

FA-4 Facade Break. There shall be a minimum of
one facade break measuring at least 30 feet
wide by 30 feet deep along the north edge of
Stadium Way. This facade break may feature
vehicular access to parking within the block.

Epicenter Green
The Epicenter Green and adjacent promenade are
critical elements of the public realm; the following
standards apply:

EG-1 Access and Size. The Epicenter Green and
adjacent Promenade to the south (see
diagram below) may be either publicly or
privately owned and maintained. In either
case, they shall be publicly accessible for at
least 12 hours per day and during regular
opening hours of businesses within the
Epicenter Master Plan Area. The size of the
multi-purpose open space shall be a minimum
of 10,000 square feet—not including any
building footprints, surrounding sidewalks, or
promenades. If made private, more specific
requirements (such as a larger minimum open
space size, if deemed necessary by the City)
shall be identified as part of a development
agreement.

Stadium Way
Rochester Ave
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 Epicenter Green area, subject to EG-1 above
Promenade, subject to EG-1 above
(see also Standard C-4)
Building Footprint(s), if any, subject to
further design
Sidewalk along Rochester Ave, to remain
publicly accessible at all times; this portion
is to be designed as part of the Fault Line
Promenade (see Standard C-4)
Sidewalk along Stadium Way, to remain
publicly accessible at all times
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3.3: Street Design Standards
Street Design Element Interior Street Arrow Route Rochester Avenue Roadway Width Subject to the required number of lanes per the City Traffic Engineer Vehicular Lane Width 10 ft preferred; 11 ft
max 11 ft preferred; 12 ft. max
Center Median N/A1 Recommended;
10 ft min
Recommended;
10 ft min
Allowed Bike Facility Classes2 II, III, or IV I, II with buffer, or IV; IV is preferred
I, II with buffer, or IV;
IV is preferred
Curbside Lane Width 7 ft. min.

Not required;
If introduced:
8 ft. min. with striped
buffer recommended
9 ft. min.3
Landscape/Amenity Area
Width 6 to 10 ft. 8 to 15 ft.

Street Trees within the
Landscape/Amenity Area
and/or Curbside Lane
Street trees required;
Street trees shall be regularly spaced;
Spacing: 40 ft. max. o.c.4; 25–35 ft. o.c. recommended
Landscaping within the
Landscape/Amenity Area
(By ground floor use:)
Retail: Individual planters or tree wells with grates recommended Commercial: Either individual or continuous planters
Pedestrian Way 8 to 15 ft.5
Clear Width for Pedestrians
in the Pedestrian Way 8 ft. min.

Notes:

1. Only recommended where already existing on Stadium Way and Jack Benny Dr, near Rochester Ave.

2. Applicable where bike facilities are improved or introduced.

3. Recommended to accommodate pick-up/drop-off zone(s). Where the Curbside Lane is used for curbside parallel parking, striped buffers are recommended to demarcate a 7 ft. wide parking lane along the curb.

4. Exception: Spacing may exceed the maximum where conflicting with driveway or utility placement.

5. Exception: The Fault Line Promenade shall be at least 15 feet wide and is exempt from the maximum width (see Standard C-4 on page 50 and the Stadium Way example section on page 57).

Notes:

1. Private Frontage and Building Entrance and Facade Types are regulated in Section 3.2.

TRAVEL ZONE
PRIVATE PROPERTY LINE / PUBLIC R.O.W
CURB

ACCESSORY ZONE SIDEWALK ZONE

LANDSCAPE &

FURNISHING ZONE

PRIVATE

FRONTAGE /

SETBACK ZONE
Vehicular Travel Lanes
Transit Lanes
Dedicated or Shared Bicycle Lanes
Dedicated Turning Lanes
Medians
Curbside Parking
“Bulb-Out”
Sidewalks / Planters
Striped Buﬀers
Parklets 1
Transit Platforms
Protected Bicycle
Lanes
Frontage Lanes 2
Landscaped
Parkways / Planters
Street Furniture 3
Street Lighting /
Signage
Sidewalk Dining
Driveway Entries
Transit Stops
Unobstructed
Pedestrian
Walkway
Sidewalk Dining
Building Entry /
Transition Space
Sidewalk Cafés 4
Building Entry
Plaza / Yard
Building
Landscaping

CURBSIDE
LANE
Curbside Parking
Bulb-Out Side-
walks / Planters
Striped Buffers
Parklets
Transit Platforms
Protected Bicycle
Lanes
Frontage Lanes

ROADWAY
Vehicular Travel Lanes
Transit Lanes
Dedicated or Shared Bicycle Lanes
Medians

LANDSCAPE /

AMENITY AREA
Landscaped Park-
ways / Planters
Street Furniture
Street Lighting /
Signage
Sidewalk Dining
Driveway Entries
Transit Stops
Public Frontage

PEDESTRIAN
WAY
Unobstructed
Clear Width
for Pedestri-
ans
Sidewalk Din-
ing
Building Entry
and Transi-
tion Space

PRIVATE
FRONTAGE1
Sidewalk Cafes
Extension of
Pedestrian
Way
Building
Entrance &
Facade Types
Landscaping
TABLE 3.3: STREET DESIGN STANDARDS
FIGURE 3.3: RIGHT-OF-WAY ZONES
This Section applies to all new vehicular connections and improvements to existing streets within the Plan Area. All vehicular street rights of way shall contain the following elements of public realm anatomy:

Roadway, Landscape/Amenity Area, and Pedestrian Way. A Curbside Lane is also recommended on all Interior Streets and Rochester Ave. For the purposes of this Plan, Interior Streets include all streets within the Plan Area other than Rochester Ave and Arrow Rte. The Rancho Cucamonga General Plan describes the intent of this public realm anatomy, including how it is to be calibrated to the context and ground floor uses (Plan RC, Volume 4, Chapter 2, Part 1). The public realm anatomy is diagrammed in Figure 3.3, and Table

3.3 establishes associated standards.
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Example Section: Stadium Way, East of Rochester Avenue
Per Standard C-4, a promenade ("The Fault Line") shall run along the north side of Stadium Way, east of Rochester Ave. A curbside lane with parallel parking is also recommended along the north curb of the street. The section below is facing east, showing the public frontage on the north side of the street.

LANDSCAPE
/ AMENITY
AREA
PEDESTRIAN WAY ("THE FAULT LINE")PRIVATE

FRONTAGE

CURBSIDE
LANE
Public Frontage
Example Section: Interior Street
The frontage of interior streets is to be calibrated to the adjacent ground floor use. Here, a wide Curbside Access Zone features large planters and diagonal parking to support the adjacent businesses. Outdoor dining and seating fills the Landscape & Furnishing Zone between individual planters.

CURBSIDE LANE CURBSIDE LANEROADWAYL/A
AREA
L/A
AREA
Public Frontage Public Frontage

PEDESTRIAN
WAY

PEDESTRIAN
WAY
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Purpose & Applicability
Table 3.4: Allowed Uses establishes the land uses allowed for any new development within the Epicenter Master Plan Area. This Table overrides the Land Use Standards found in Chapter 17.136 of the Rancho Cucamonga Development Code. The following standards of the Development Code also apply:

Required Findings for MUP & CUP Approvals
For all uses requiring Minor (MUP) or Conditional (CUP) Use Permits, a review shall be conducted with the purpose of determining that each such proposed use is, and will continue to be, compatible with surrounding, existing, or planned uses. This review also has the further purpose of establishing such special conditions as may be necessary to insure the harmonious integration and compatibility of such uses in the Epicenter Master Plan Area and with the surrounding area.

To support the review and approval of such uses, the following determinations shall be made and appropriate conditions applied to ensure:
+ That the proposed use will not become a
public nuisance, resulting in illegal drug
activity including sales or possession
thereof, harassment of passersby, gambling,
prostitution, public urination, curfew
violations, theft, assaults, batteries, acts of
vandalism, illegal parking, excessive littering,
noxious smells or fumes, lewd conduct, or
frequent police detention, citations or arrests,
or any other activity declared by the City to
be a public nuisance determined by California
law to be public nuisance.
+ That the proposed use will not generate
noxious odors or other similar adverse effects
on surrounding uses. For the purposes of
this requirement, “surrounding uses” shall
include occupants of neighboring buildings,
occupants of other floors within the same
building, and pedestrians passing along the
sidewalk in front of the subject property.
+ That any use within the first 30 feet of ground
floors—measured from the Build-To Line—in
the Primary Frontage Overlay, as mapped
in Figure 3.1: Regulating Plan, provides
continuous, highly active frontage that draws
visitors to the area, in conformance with
Design Standard FR-1 in Section 3.2. And
that any such use aligns particularly well with
the envisioned character of the Plan Area, as
described in Chapters 1 and 2.

3.4: Allowed Uses
+ The standards in Article V (Specific Use
Requirements) apply to uses allowed in this
chapter.
+ Land uses are defined in Chapter 17.32
(Allowed Use Descriptions).

Permit Requirements
A land use is either allowed by right; allowed through issuance of a conditional or minor use permit; or not permitted. In addition to the requirements for planning permits or entitlements listed herein, other permits and entitlements may be required prior to establishment of the use (e.g., building permit or permits required by other agencies). The requirements for planning permits or entitlements identified in Table 3.4:

Allowed Uses include:
+ Permitted (P). A land use shown with a “P”
indicates that the land use is permitted
by right in the designated zone, subject to
compliance with all applicable provisions of
the Development Code and this Master Plan as
well state and federal law.
+ Minor Use Permit (M). A land use shown
with an “M” indicates that the land use is
permitted in the designated zone upon
issuance of a minor use permit from the
designated approving authority, subject to
compliance with all applicable provisions of
the Development Code and this Master Plan as
well as state and federal law.
+ Conditional Use Permit (C). A land use
shown with a “C” indicates that the land use
is permitted in the designated zone upon
issuance of a conditional use permit from the
designated approving authority, subject to
compliance with all applicable provisions of
the Development Code and this Master Plan as
well as state and federal law.
+ Not Permitted (N). A land use shown with
an “N” is not allowed in the applicable zone.

Additionally, uses not shown in the table are
not permitted, except as otherwise provided in
this title.

A project that includes two or more categories of land use in the same building or on the same site is subject to the highest permit level required for any individual use or single component of the project. + Regulations in § 17.30.020 (Classification of
Land Uses) apply to this chapter.
+ That perceived privacy and/or security
requirements of the proposed use will not
lead building users to maintain rarely opened
opaque window coverings on street-facing
windows, nor to routinely utilize rear or side
entries rather than street-facing front doors as
the primary means of access and egress to the
building.
+ That the ground floor rooms adjacent to the
street frontage will be occupied during much
of the day and occupied and/or lighted during
most evenings.
+ For all retail, restaurant and indoor
recreational uses, display windows shall not
“wall off” views into retail interior spaces, and
the interiors of dining rooms and activity
rooms shall be clearly visible to passing
pedestrians.
+ For office, hotel, and other similar uses, front
rooms should include lobbies, waiting areas,
and office spaces in which window blinds are
typically open.
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Uses by Category Epicenter General Ground Floors in Primary Active Frontage Overlay 8
Agricultural and Animal-Related Uses
Animal Keeping, Rancho Cucamonga Animal Shelter P P
Animal Keeping, Other 1 M N
Microscale Agriculture M N
Recreation, Resource Preservation, Open Space, Education, and Public Assembly Uses Assembly Use M M
Community Center/Civic Use M M
Community Garden C N
Convention Center C C
Indoor Amusement/ Entertainment Facility P P
Indoor Fitness and Sports Facility—Large M M
Indoor Fitness and Sports Facility—Small P P
Library and Museum P P
Outdoor Commercial Recreation P P
Park and Public Plaza M N
Public Safety Facility M N
School, Academic (Private) M C
School, Academic (Public) P P
School, College/University (Private) M C
School, College/University (Public) M C
Schools, Specialized Education and Training/Studio M M
Theaters and Auditoriums P P
Tutoring Center—Large M M
Tutoring Center—Small P P
Utility, Transportation, Public Facility, and Communication Uses Broadcasting and Recording Studios M M
Parking Facility C N
Transit Facility C C
Utility Facility and Infrastructure—Pipelines 2 P N
Service and Office Uses
Animal Sales and Grooming P C
Banks and Financial Services P N
Business Support Services P N
Check Cashing Business 3 P N
Child Day Care Facility/Center M M
Hotel P P
Kennel, Rancho Cucamonga Animal Center P P
Kennel, Commercial M C
Maintenance and Repair, Small Equipment C N
Massage Establishment 5 P P
Uses by Category Epicenter General Ground Floors in Primary Active Frontage Overlay 8
Massage Establishment, Ancillary 5 P P
Office, Business and Professional M N
Office, Accessory P N
Pawnshop 3 C N
Personal Services P M
Tattoo Shop 3 M M
Veterinary Facility M M
Retail Uses
Alcoholic Beverage Sales M M
Bar/Nightclub M M
Consignment Store M N
Convenience Store P P
Drive-In and Drive-Through Sales and Service 4 C6 N
EV Showroom and Indoor Sales P M
Grocery Store/Supermarket P C
Hookah Shop M M
Home Improvement Supply Store M N
Liquor Store M M
Mobile Food Vehicles P P
Restaurant, No Liquor Service P P
Restaurant, Beer and Wine P P
Restaurant, Full Liquor Service P P
Retail, Accessory P P
Retail, General P P
Smoke Shop 3 M N
Industrial, Manufacturing, and Processing Uses 7
Maker Space/Accessory Maker Space M M
Microbrewery M M
TABLE 3.4: ALLOWED USES
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Notes:

1. See additional regulations for animal keeping in Title 17 Development Code.

2. Utility facilities and infrastructure involving hazardous or volatile gas and/or liquid pipeline development require approval of a conditional use permit.

3. See additional regulations for special regulated uses in Title 17 Development Code.

4. See additional regulations for drive-in and drive-through facilities in Title 17 Development Code.

5. Massage establishment permit required. See additional regulations for massage establishments in Development Code Chapter 5.18.

6. Allowed with a conditional use permit only on sites with frontage on an auto priority street as defined in the General Plan.

7. See additional regulations for industrial uses in Title 17 Development Code.

8. This applies to the first 30 feet of ground floors—measured from the Build-To Line—in the Primary Frontage Overlay, as mapped in Figure 3.1: Regulating Plan.

Key:

P Permitted
C Conditional Use Permit
M Minor Use Permit
N Not permitted
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04 4: IMPLEMENTATION PLAYBOOK
There are many possible combinations of development concepts, improvement concepts, programming and operations that could help make the Epicenter Master Plan Area a success. An on-going decision-making process is necessary to decide what needs to be implemented or encouraged at what time, depending on the associated benefits and trade-offs. To aid in this decision-making process, this Chapter provides a working tool—or "Playbook"—for evaluating the impacts and desired timing of a multitude of ideas. The near-term action items and longer-term concepts identified in Chapter 2 draw from this Playbook; however, this Chapter lists a wider range of concepts and tradeoffs as a valuable reference for decision-making over time. This Chapter includes the following sections:

Introduction
Implementation
Playbook
Understanding the Tool
Playbook Concepts
The Playbook: Improvement Concepts
The Playbook: Development Concepts
The Playbook: Programming & Operations
The Playbook: Existing Uses

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Category Meaning Symbol
Financial Impact
Generates significant revenue +$$
Generates revenue +$
No/minimal financial impact
Generates new cost -$
Generates significant new cost -$$
Parking Impact
Supplies a significant amount of new parking
(net positive impact) +PP
Supplies new parking
(net positive impact) +P
No/minimal parking impact
Addition to parking need (net negative impact, by
generating additional demand and/or displacing parking) -P Significant addition to parking need (net negative impact, by generating additional demand and/or displacing parking) -PP Priority / Timing
High priority; near-term
Immediate phase to initiate change 1
Medium priority; medium-term 2
Medium priority; long-term
Likely associated with a shared parking structure phase 3 Low priority; long-term
Only if implemented in a notably beneficial form 4
Not a priority
Only if needed to support other concepts
People Draw
Attracts more than 500k visitors per year or is critical to support a use which draws that many people
Attracts 200k to 500k visitors per year or is critical to support a use which draws that many people
Attracts up to 200k/year

Contributes to attractive destination but doesn’t draw many people on its own
Limits the area’s ability to be a specialized destination

VISUAL SCORECARD KEY (FOR PLAYBOOK SPREADSHEET ON FOLLOWING PAGES)

LOCATIONS KEY (FOR PLAYBOOK SPREADSHEET ON FOLLOWING PAGES) The Playbook spreadsheet identifies the benefits, challenges, potential locations, key strategies, financial impact, parking impact, priority/timing, and people draw associated with the various concepts. In order to understand the spreadsheet, an explanation of the symbols and references associated with the potential locations and “visual scorecard” is necessary.

Many of the development concepts and improvements are recommended to be sited in or near existing parking lots. For this reason, the parking lots are lettered for easy reference, as shown below.

The “visual scorecard” analyzes impacts using a color-coded system. The intent is to enable the user to analyze, simultaneously, multiple considerations and trade-offs at a glance. The meaning behind these colors and symbols is included in the key to the right. This is a working tool, as the impacts of any one concept are not absolute and will evolve over time with changing market conditions and needs of the City.

Understanding the Tool
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Field 1
(Stadium)
Field
2 Lot F
Lot D
Lot E
Field
3 Field
4 Lot A
Lot B
Lot C
Field
5 Sofive
Animal
Center
Lot G
Lot H
Sports
Center
Lot I
Substation
Arrow Rte
Jack Benny Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
Sebastian Way
Plan Area
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Playbook Concepts: Potential Locations Mapped
This plan illustrates possible configurations for some of the many possible concepts included in the Playbook. However, many other possibilities are labeled over the top of the plan with numbers and letters which correspond to the spreadsheet on the following pages. 1A–I
1A–I
1A–I
2D
2K
2K
2L
2L
2L
2L
2L
2E–G
Arrow Rte
Jack Benny Dr
Sebastian Way
Masi
Dr
Stadium Way
Stadium Way
Arrow Rte
Rochester Ave
4H
4A–B &
3F
4C–E
& 3E-F
4C–E
& 3E-F
4C–E
& 3E-F
1A–I;
2O–P
1A–J;
2O–P
1D
1J
2I
4J
2J,
3D–E
2A
2B
2C
2C
2B
2B
2O–P
& 3C
2O–P
& 3C
2O–P
& 3C
1A–I
1A–L, 2P
& 3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
3C
1C
4I
May remain a Little League field
through the life of this Plan.
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Development Concepts Benefits / Challenges Potential Location(s) Notes / Key Strategies Visual Scorecard
Financial
Impact
Parking
Impact
Priority
/ Timing
People
Draw
1A
Food,
Beverage,
and Retail
Freestanding 1–2 Stories
Pad or liner building • Brings activity and fun to the area and activates key parts of the public realm Lots A, B, C, G, or H 1 • Parking can be accommodated easily with overflow surface lots (Improvement 2M) +$ -P 2
1B
Tactical:

Steelcraft or other small-
footprint structures lining the
public realm
• Activates Epicenter Green and promenade
• Complements gameday and open space
programming
• Draws people (100–250k/year)
Lots A, B, C, or G • Parking can be accommodated easily with overflow surface lots (2M) +$$ -P 1
1C
Activity-anchored:

Chicken ‘N’ Pickle or other
food and beverage anchored
by sport/activity (like Top Golf)
• Draws people (up to 750k/year)
Lot C; south of Lot C; Lots A, B, or G if structured
parking is supplied nearby; could partner with
Soccer Center and fields/courts could be placed
in the existing soccer parking lot (pending other
parking options)
• Large footprint relies on replacing a lot of
parking, so this will likely rely on a shared
parking structure (2O) +$$ -PP 3
1D
Pet-friendly anchor:

Bark Social or similar with
food and beverage
• Draws people (200–250k/year)
• Oriented primarily toward dog owners and
their dogs, although anyone may enter
Lot C, south of Lot C, or southern portion of Lot
B; Lot G, H or I if structured parking is supplied
nearby
• Large footprint relies on replacing a lot of
parking, so this will likely rely on a shared
parking structure (2O) +$ -P 3
1E Ground floor(s) of mixed use
building
• Brings activity and fun to the area and
activates key parts of the public realm Lots A, B, C, G, or H • To be combined with other uses; likely relies on structured parking (2O) +$ -P 3
1F
Other
Com-
mercial
Fitness, wellness, and/or dance
• Brings activity during the day, supporting
businesses at less popular times
• Synergizes with nearby uses (offices, dance
school, etc)
Lots B, C, G, H, or I • Supports Plan Area vision, but not likely be a predominant use +$ -P 4
1G Office
• Supports shared parking supply during non-
business hours (nights and weekends);
• Office uses may be less active than desired for
the district
Lots G, H, or I; potentially A or B in small
quantities
• Likely triggers a need for structured parking,
though could not fund a structure on its own
(2O) +$ -PP 4
1H
Hotel
Freestanding:

AC Marriott or similar
• Consistent presence of people throughout
the day = built-in activity and customers
• Brings more visitors from out-of-town
• Supportive of vision, but not a critical use
Lot A, B, or G • Likely triggers a need for structured parking (2O)
• Requires active ground floor use (1A)
+$ -PP 4
1I As part of mixed use project Lot A, B, or G
+$ -PP 4
1J Animal Center Expansion • Provides public-facing space for Center (4J) Along Arrow Rte, near existing building • Minor parking displacement to be mitigated -$ -P 3

1. Lot Letters: This table makes reference to parking lot letters as labeled on the “Locations Key” map on page 64.

The Playbook: Development Concepts
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Improvement Concepts Benefits / Challenges Potential Location(s) Notes / Key Strategies Visual Scorecard
Financial
Impact
Parking
Impact
Priority
/ Timing
People
Draw
2A
Streets
(subject to
appropriate
operational
analyses, as
necessary)
Promenade
Along Epicenter Green
• Walkable, bikable routes connect key uses to
each other and the wider context
• Connections between shareable parking lots
and potential future structures
Along south and east edges of Epicenter Green • Supports tactical near-term retail (1B) -$ 1 2B Extension to Sebastian Way Along back of the Stadium outfield • When promenades are improved (2A–B) -$ +P 1 2C
Along Stadium Way, east of
Rochester Ave, & into SCE
land
Along the north edge of Stadium Way, east of
Rochester Ave, and into SCE land
• Works in combination with intersection
improvements (2D);
• Connects to new shared parking in Lot G (2O)
-$$ 3
2D
Rochester Ave
Stadium Way Intersection
improvements
• Creates a sense of arrival
• Facilitates pedestrian and bike crossing
between uses and parking supplies
At Rochester Ave and Stadium Way
• In combination with promenades (2A and 2B)
and 2E and 2F
• Especially useful to connect to any parking
structure in Lot G (2O)
-$ 2
2E Roadway restriping • Calms traffic, provides parking, and improves bike lanes Throughout Rochester Ave • In coordination with overall vehicular/bike network and 2E and 2F -$ +P 2
2F Sidewalk and public frontage
• Enables development to engage Rochester
• Improves pedestrian connectivity
• Creates a sense of place and enclosure,
despite wide right-of-way
Along Rochester Ave;
Median in alternating left turn lane, set back
from intersections to allow for turn lanes
• In coordination with new building frontage
(1A through 1J) and 2D and 2E
• In coordination with other Rochester Ave
improvements (2D and 2E)
-$$ 3
2G Wayfinding Program • Promotes the area's identity and facilitates visitors' navigation
Key gateways to the area, including Rochester
Ave at Stadium Way and Jack Benny Dr
• In coordination with any other street
improvements, especially 2D -$ 4
2H Arrow Route • General Plan improvements, including
improved bike/pedestrian connectivity Throughout Arrow Rte • Less direct impact on near-term opportunities; supports Animal Center (4J) -$ 4
2I New internal street • Completes block network New connections identified in Section 3.3 • Not necessary for near-term opportunities -$ 4 2J
Open
Spaces
Epicenter Green • Flexibly-programmable anchor space SW corner of Rochester Ave and Stadium Way • Supports tactical near-term retail (1B) -$ 1 2K Other small plazas
• Fun spaces for Sports Center / Sofive users
• Engages adjacent commercial uses
West of Sports Center outdoor courts;
East of Sofive building
• Engages path to SCE property (2B)
• Engages stadium promenade -$ 3
2L Stadium promenade • Walkable, bikable routes connect key uses to each other and the wider context Within baseball stadium complex • Supports stadium uses (4A, 4B, and 3F) -$ 2 2M
Parking
New surface parking • Easy near-term solution NW corner of Rochester and Arrow; on nearby Freeway-adjacent City land
• Supports overflow parking from the Stadium
and tactical near-term retail (1B) -$ +P 1
2N Connections/shuttles to existing
underutilized lots to be shared
• Leverages existing parking with minimal
investment
Adjacent commercial parking; Foothill Crossing
shopping center parking
• Supports overflow parking from the Stadium
and tactical near-term retail (1B) -$ +PP 1
2O New shared parking structure
• Frees up space for new, exciting uses
• Can be managed and used flexibly over time
Lot G preferred;
Other possibilities: A, B, C and south of C
• Needs pedestrian-friendly links (2A through
2D) to all uses -$$ +PP TBD
2P Relocation of solar collectors • Leverages existing asset; provides shade To any other/new parking lot or structure • As needed as parking is relocated -$ 2 The Playbook: Improvement Concepts
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Programming & Operations Concepts Benefits / Challenges Potential Location(s) Notes / Key Strategies Visual Scorecard
Financial
Impact
Parking
Impact
Priority
/ Timing
People
Draw
3A
Opera-
tions
Current Maintenance &
Management
• Supports athletic facilities, parking, and
Animal Center All City-maintained property • Supports existing operations -$$ 3B New Maintenance & Management • As needed for new uses/programming All City-maintained property • As needed for new uses/programming -$ 3C
Parking Management Plan to
establish a Managed Parking
District
• Increase parking efficiency by facilitating the
sharing of parking
• Leverage parking as a City asset
All parking lots
• In support of current and new parking needs
• Establish Memorandums of Understanding
(MOUs) with property owners for use of
parking areas.
+$ +P 1
3D
Program-
ming
Farmers Market • Creates activity and a destination Epicenter Green, parking lots, and/or ground floor of future parking structure • Supported by improved open space (2J) • Involves new maintenance & management
costs (2B)
+$ -P
3E Other open space events/programs • Creates activity and a destination Epicenter Green or parking lots +$ -P 1 3F Stadium Programming/Concerts • Creates activity and a destination Stadium • Involves new maintenance & management costs (2B) +$ -P 1
3G
Adaptation/reconfiguration
of softball field(s) to also
accommodate Little League use
• Allows the site of the existing Little League
field to accommodate a new use aligned
with the vision of this Master Plan (see
Development Concepts on page 68)
Softball fields • Requires scheduling coordination between softball and Little League -$ 4 2
3H Funding
New dedicated source of revenue,
such as an increased Transient
Occupancy Tax (TOT) and/or EIFD
for the Plan Area
• Provides additional funding that is generated
from and targeted for the Plan Area Applicable to the entire Plan Area +$ N/A 2 N/A The Playbook: Programming & Operations
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Existing Uses Benefits / Challenges Potential Location(s) Notes / Key Strategies Visual Scorecard
Financial
Impact
Parking
Impact
Priority
/ Timing
People
Draw
4A
Baseball
and
Softball
Fields3, 4
Field 1 (Stadium):

MLB Minor League
The Quakes
• Anchors and gives an identity to the area
• Only active 6 months per year
Field 1
• Season is April to September; schedule can be
coordinated with other uses of the stadium
and other parking needs
Cumulative $1.6m annual operating deficit
Fully supplied by current lots
N/A (existing use)

4B Other programming
• Capitalizes on existing resource
• Requires its own maintenance and
management without an operator (for
example, setting up for concerts)
• Not a significant use of the Stadium
(occasional photo shoots; concerts have been
tried)
4C
Fields 2–4
Major League Softball
(Adult)
• Draws visitors—possible patrons for new
restaurants and retail
• Uses all 3 fields for 29.5 hours/week
• 4 seasons on odd years; 3 seasons on even
years (due to renovations) • Schedules can be coordinated with other uses of the fields and other parking needs

4D Tournaments • Draws visitors—possible patrons for new restaurants and retail
• Uses all 3 fields for 15.5 hours/week
• 20–30 tournaments per year
4E
On-Going Rentals • Capitalizes on existing resource
Fields 2, 3, and 5 rented for 7 hours/week (mid-
morning to early afternoon) by a nearby fitness
company
• Not a significant impact as it is a minor use
4F
Field 54G District 71 Little League
• Serves Little League District
• The field exists solely for this non-full-time use
Field 5 (baseball field on Arrow)
To investigate possibility of Little League using
Fields 2–4
• Not adjacent to likely near-term phase, but
could be reconfigured or relocated to allow
for future phases
4H Sports
Center
All Sports Center programming
• Provides athletic facilities to the community,
including basketball, volleyball, concessions, a
multipurpose room, and pickle ball.
• Bolsters the Plan Area’s role and identity as a
destination for participating in and watching
athletics
• Isolated from the Stadium and adjacent uses
Sports Center facilities • Synergizes with nearby fitness-related uses

4I
Sofive
Soccer
Center
5-on-5 soccer
• A fun athletic use which relates to, but is
distinct from, the other sports uses in the
Plan Area
• Bolsters the Plan Area’s role and identity as a
destination for participating in and watching
athletics
10 existing fields (2 future fields) • Synergizes with nearby sports-related uses and could complement new related uses
4J Animal Center
• While not related directly to area’s athletic
identity, it is not near priority phases and
provides a needed use for the City
• Provides a small, yet consistent presence of
people throughout the year
Southwest corner of plan area • Could synergize with a use anchored by pet- friendly space, such as Bark Social (1D)

3. Renovations: Every other year, fields are out of use from November 20 to February 6 (11 weeks) for renovation.

4. Programming and Reconfiguration: See programming and reconfiguration concepts 3F and 3G on page 72.

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| EPICENTER MASTER PLAN | CHAPTER
76 Epicenter Master Plan
DATE: December 20, 2023
TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: John R. Gillison, City Manager
INITIATED BY: Matt Marquez, Director of Planning and Economic Development Jennifer Nakamura, CNU-A, Deputy Director of Planning
Sean McPherson, AICP, Principal Planner
SUBJECT: Public Hearing for Consideration of First Reading of Ordinance No. 1023, to be Read by Title Only and Waive Further Reading, Amending Articles III, V, VIII, and IX of Title 17 (Development Code) of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code that will Include the Addition of New Subzone to the Summary Table and Land Use, Clarifications to Various Development Standards including updates to Drive-Thru Use and Service Station Standards, New Standards for Subdivisions in the Form Based Code, Adjustments to Open Space Requirements, and Additional Typographic and Formatting Amendments, and Recommendation of Zoning Map Amendments to Specific Parcels for Consistency with the General Plan (“PlanRC”). An Addendum to the General Plan Update and Climate Action Plan FEIR has been prepared for this project (Zoning Map Amendment DRC2023-00317; Municipal Code Amendment DRC2023- 00318). (ORDINANCE NO. 1023) (CITY)
RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends the City Council adopt an Addendum to the General Plan Environmental Impact Report and conduct a first reading of Ordinance No. 1023, approving proposed text amendments to the Development Code and amendments to the Zoning Map.

BACKGROUND:

On December 15, 2021, the City Council adopted a comprehensive update to the city’s General Plan. Commonly referred to as “Plan RC”, the General Plan was designed to address issues and challenges facing the City, including diversifying employment opportunities, expanding housing and mobility choices, and maintaining many of the characteristics that make the city a special place to live. Following the adoption of the General Plan, the City Council adopted a comprehensive update to the Development Code on May 18, 2022. The Code Update was designed to codify the community’s vision that was established in the General Plan and increase certainty in the development review process. Since the adoption of the code, various clarifications and technical clean-ups have been identified. These items are necessary to better calibrate the Code to the General Plan vision and to ensure clearer standards and procedures are implemented through the development review process.

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