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The frequency and severity of MCIs/MFIs could respond to economic upsets, political upheaval, crumbling infrastructure, changes in traffic patterns, and rising temperatures (researchers have found a correlation between high temperatures and violent crime rates66,67) These same conditions can themselves cause populations to shift and land uses to change and can be causal factors in accidental (train crashes, pipeline explosions) and deliberate (mass shootings, terrorism) MCIs/MFIs.
CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY
Hazardous Materials Release
Climate change could indirectly increase the City's vulnerability to the impacts of a hazardous materials release as climate-related hazard events occur. Increased precipitation intensity may overwhelm containment infrastructure or could cause an increase in hazardous materials releases. Climate-related hazards could also exacerbate the effects and impacts of such events.
For example, heavier rains could lead to more runoff from a contaminated site with hazardous materials.
Landfill Subsidence
Increased temperatures and more intense precipitation from climate change could worsen the effects of landfill subsidence. As temperatures increase and more extreme events occur, the materials used to cap the landfill could degrade quicker or require repairs more frequently. In addition, as more intense rain events are projected, these events could introduce water into the capped landfill (if exposed) or created exposures due to erosion.
Transportation Incidents
As noted in Chapter 3, increased rain, flooding, high winds, and ground subsidence may undermine transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, railroad rights-of-way), creating hazards that contribute to more road accidents involving high-profile and high-weight vehicles.
Cybercrime Incidents
It's possible but as yet unproven that the ill effects of climate change may aggravate existing societal tensions and inspire more people to digitally attack organizations, they consider complicit in the slow degradation of living standards.
66 H. Choi, S. Heo, D. Foo,Y.Song, R.Stewart,J. Son, M. Bell. "Temperature, Crime,and Violence:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis."2024; Environmental Health Perspectives,Vol. 132, Issue 0,CID: 106001. https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/EHP14300
67 City University of New York Graduate Center."How Volatile Temperatures Shape Violent Crime."Sep.21,2023. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/how-volatile-temperatures-shape-violent-crime 118 Page 513 of 654
Mass Casualty/Fatality Incidents
The impacts of a changing climate may exacerbate existing social, political, religious, and ethnic tensions, leading to more mass violence. The same impacts may degrade roads, bridges, railroad trackways, and other infrastructure, causing more serious accidents with higher casualties and fatalities.
Threat Profile: Severe Weather
PHYSICAL THREAT
Extreme Heat
Extremely high temperatures can cause roads to deform and buckle as the pavement expands in the heat, especially in poorly maintained areas. Power lines and other electrical grid components are less effective in higher temperatures and may be damaged by extreme heat events. Buildings with dark roofs or pavement will absorb more heat than surfaces with vegetation or lighter materials that are better at reflecting the sun's energy. This urban heat island effect is strongest during hot periods when the sun is strongest.
Drought
There is no indication that drought will abate either in Upland or greater Southern California in the future. All expectations are that droughts will continue and increase in severity, ending in periods of intense rainfall followed by renewed drought. Prolonged dry periods harm the physical environment by killing vegetation, weakening trees that then become hosts for invasive pests, and inspiring outsized aquifer drawdowns that may cause land subsidence. Parks and open areas become deserts. Ornamental uses of water, such as fountains and pools, disappear along with their cooling effects.
Severe Wind
Intense winds likely present the greatest threat to physical structures, particularly from trees or branches that fall on buildings and cause substantial damage. Older structures that have deferred maintenance or haven't been retrofitted for high wind conditions may suffer greater damage than newer/updated structures. Utility lines and wooden utility poles face an elevated threat from wind, as do buildings without reinforced roofs.
The most dangerous effect of severe windstorms lies in their ability to turn small wildfires into firestorms. Neither the Palisades nor the Eaton fires would've spread as quickly and significantly increased in size without the hurricane-force winds behind them, casting embers miles downwind and pushing the flames into built-up areas. Repeatedly, high winds in California and elsewhere have expanded small wildfires into large incidents in a short period of time, often short-circuiting evacuation and rescue operations and leading to human tragedies. 119 Page 514 of 654
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SOCIAL THREAT
Extreme Heat
While a heat event can be relatively harmless for those with a reliable means of staying hydrated and cool, it can be deadly for others. Young children, the elderly, or people suffering from serious medical conditions are physiologically more vulnerable to heatstroke. Some senior citizens take medicines that interfere with their bodies' internal heat regulation, creating an additional threat from extreme heat events. Young children may not be aware of the signs of dehydration or ways of protecting themselves from heatstroke.
People living in homelessness are at a high risk of health complications during heat waves, especially if they are unsheltered. According to 2024 point-in-time Count performed by the San Bernardino County Homeless Partnership, approximately 4,255 adults and children experienced homelessness in the county, 71.8% of them unsheltered. Approximately 96 of these individuals live in Upland.68 During a heatwave, these people are very vulnerable to heatstroke, especially if they can't reach a cooling center.
Sudden spikes in heat can catch people by surprise. Stores can rapidly sell out of fans, air- conditioning units, or drinking water during a heatwave. Many lower-income households live in older, poorly insulated, energy-inefficient housing and can't afford to run their air conditioning if they have any. Landlords may not allow tenants to install window-mount air conditioners in buildings that have no central air conditioning. During these events, extreme heat may affect larger portions of the City's population that ordinarily wouldn't be considered "vulnerable" under normal circumstances.
Drought
Drought harms people indirectly in many ways. It promotes dust, and thus respiratory diseases.
Dust infiltration makes homes and businesses harder to keep clean. Water restrictions, higher water fees, and, potentially, increased food costs place additional stress on residents and businesses. Social tensions may rise as people who follow water restrictions come into conflict with those who cheat.
Drought can also shrink open bodies of water (such as lakes and ponds) and, by limiting replenishment and circulation, cause them to become stagnant, creating breeding areas for mosquitoes.69 The California Department of Public Health documented a rise in West Nile Virus cases during the 2013-16 drought; decreased availability of open water forced birds and mosquitos into closer contact, promoting spread of the disease to humans.70 As usual, the people most hurt by these collateral drought effects are children, senior citizens, those with existing health conditions, and people with lower incomes. 68 San Bernardino County Homeless Partnership. "2024 Continuum of Care Homeless Count and Survey Report." https://www.sbcounty.gov/uploads/sbchp/SBC-2024-Homeless-Count-Report.pdf 69 https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/drought/animals.htm
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Windstorm events can harm people throughout Upland. They have the most effect on the safety of people experiencing homelessness and people who work outdoors. Dust, pollen, smoke, debris, and so on whipped up by the wind can cause or worsen respiratory ailments and increase visits to urgent care clinics, doctors' offices, and emergency rooms.
Lower-income residents, who may not have the financial resources to purchase homes built or retrofitted to withstand powerful winds, may also have difficulty recovering from wind events.
OTHER THREATS
Extreme Heat
Extreme heat for any length of time can exacerbate other hazards and risks the City faces. For example:
• Heatwaves nearly always cause spikes in electricity demand, which can cause brownouts or blackouts.
• Heat spoilage because of power outages or lack of cooled storage can cause food insecurity, especially among people with lower incomes. • Violent crime and domestic abuse rates rise during significant heatwaves. • Both domestic and wild animals may be unable to cool themselves through normal behaviors, leading to injury or death.
• Especially during dry conditions and high winds, extreme heat may encourage the ignition and spread of wildfires.
Drought
In modern society, drought is primarily an economic hazard. Farmers may be forced to fallow land they can't irrigate, potentially raising food costs. Businesses that rely on a steady, affordable water supply—hotels, restaurants, nurseries, pool supply shops, car washes—may lay off employees or close, reducing available services and increasing unemployment. City-run recreational facilities, such as swimming pools and water parks, may also close or raise fees.
Counterintuitively, soil baked hard by prolonged drought may also increase flooding hazards when the rain finally returns. The ground loses its ability to absorb water naturally, forcing higher-than-normal runoff that can overwhelm the City's storm drains and storm channels.
Severe Wind
Severe windstorms create financial and operational strain on both the public and the City in various ways.
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• Field workers may have to stop working if winds are sufficiently strong. Job sites that stay open despite the wind may experience more on-the-job injuries. • Strong winds can capsize high-profile vehicles (such as semi-trucks) on the road, endangering the vehicle operators and other drivers and snarling traffic. • Various types of aircraft may not be able to take off or land if crosswind components become too high on runways.
CHANGES IN POPULATION AND LAND USE DEVELOPMENT
Extreme Heat
While extreme heat may not change land use development over the short term, continually rising temperatures may drive away residents who cannot live in warmer conditions. Builders may incorporate more green practices and systems into their new structures to provide more thermal protection, but that won't help the City's large installed base of homes and businesses that pre-date these advances and haven't been retrofitted.
Drought
Continuing water shortages have forced population migrations in the past, including the great 1930s Dust Bowl drought that brought hundreds of thousands of people into California. There's no reason they can't happen again. Faced with increased illness, expensive water, and invasive water-use restrictions, Upland residents and businesses may simply move to someplace that has challenges they find less daunting.
Confronted with a chronic water shortage, the City may have to enact a moratorium on new water hookups or on new development in general. This may kill housing or commercial projects that were years in the making, subject the City to legal action, and deprive the City of future economic benefits from the foregone development.
None of these drought effects—human, property, or financial—are catastrophic by themselves.
Upland won't fail as an enterprise or entity because of any foreseeable drought. However, the cumulative effect over time may create a smaller, poorer, less dynamic Upland that offers fewer economic and personal opportunities to its residents, visitors, and businesses.
Severe Wind
Severe windstorms occur periodically(primarily during the fall months)and generally don't affect Upland residents or businesses enough to force them to migrate out of the City. It's unlikely that severe wind alone will affect land use and development.
As discussed in the Hazard Profile: Fire section of this document, a major wind-driven fire can change everything. An Eaton Fire-type catastrophe will have critical effects on both Upland's population and its land-use policies. The City's leaders should pay close attention to the ongoing process of rebuilding Altadena for a foretaste of what might happen in Upland. 122 Page 517 of 654
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CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY
Extreme Heat
Climate change will likely increase the City's vulnerability to extreme heat impacts because of the anticipated temperature increase in intensity, duration, and frequency.
Drought
As mentioned before, climate change is likely to make all existing climate hazards more extreme, including drought. Longer and more severe droughts will cause more physical and economic damage, while the brief bursts of torrential rain separating dry periods will bring floods and erosion.
Severe Wind
Climate change will likely increase the City's vulnerability to severe weather impacts because of the increase in anticipated storm intensity and frequency along with anticipated temperature increases.
Threat Profile: Infrastructure Failure
PHYSICAL THREAT
Power failure can result from scheduled maintenance, powerplant upsets, faults in the transmission infrastructure (power lines, transformers, sub-stations), other disasters (such as earthquakes, wildfires, or floods), PSPS actions, accidents, sabotage, or excess demand. They may be limited in reach or widespread.
Power failure may directly or indirectly cause failures in other types of infrastructure. This is especially difficult to predict within the City, as it can affect any City CF or FOC anywhere at any time. Traffic control systems, communications networks, water distribution, and emergency services are just some critical services or infrastructure that a power failure can disrupt.
Intermittent or unexpected power loss can cause physical damage to computer equipment and other electronics associated with all types of key infrastructure.
Public safety facilities are usually equipped with backup generators to ensure continuity of operations in the event of power failures; however, generators can sometimes fail and always need to be refueled. If fuel providers are unable to pump diesel from their depots because of the outage, the City's generators may have to shut down 24-48 hours for lack of fuel.
SOCIAL THREAT
As with most hazards, children, seniors, low-income communities, and people with disabilities or other access and functional needs are most vulnerable to power failures. • People with health issues who rely on electrical medical equipment may be at risk of serious injury or death if they can't operate or recharge their supportive equipment during a power failure.
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• Providers of vital medical services for chronic conditions (such as kidney dialysis centers) may have to cancel or postpone appointments if their facilities don't have reliable power to operate.
• A power failure occurring during hot weather threatens all the vulnerable groups mentioned above if they can't move to a cooler location. • Low-income residents may not be able to afford to replace food spoiled from the loss of refrigeration if a power failure lasts for more than a few hours. • The people served by schools, preschools, residential care, or skilled nursing facilities located in the impact area may be at risk for cold- or heat-related conditions.
OTHER THREAT
A frequent factor in sudden power failures—line surges—can cause severe downstream consequences.
• The wiring and outlets in older structures may not meet current building code requirements. This not only may pass line surges directly to vulnerable electronics inside the building and has also been known to start fires inside wall cavities and wall or ceiling boxes.
• Many businesses and residents may not use proper equipment to help prevent line surges from damaging computers or other consumer electronics. Businesses and City government may also suffer damage in HVAC, industrial control, and communications systems if the surge burns out critical components or power supplies. • Surge suppressors or ground fault circuit interceptors (GFCIs), once tripped, may require skilled technicians to reset or replace them, especially if they're embedded in industrial equipment. This could cause failures in other key infrastructures that are otherwise undamaged.
CHANGES IN POPULATION AND LAND USE DEVELOPMENT
According to the current General Plan projections, the City's anticipated population growth over the next several years may increase Upland's vulnerability to infrastructure failure. Increasing demand for electricity in general, adding to the strain placed on existing infrastructure to accommodate population growth could lead to more frequent load shedding and brownouts if utilities don't manage capacity growth well.
Ever-higher electricity rates may drive some Upland residents and businesses to decamp for more benign climates in the near future.
CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY
If, as anticipated, climate change brings hotter days, higher winds, and heavier rains to Upland, power failures may become more common.
• Extreme heat is a primary environmental contributor to power failures. Electrical demand skyrockets while the generation and transmission infrastructure is heat-stressed and usually at or above capacity.
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Threat Profile: Flood
PHYSICAL THREAT
Surface Flooding
FEMA classes nearly all of Upland as an area of minimal flood hazard. No City CFs or FOCs exist in any of the FEMA 100-Year and 500-Year Flood Zones. Figure 4-9 displays these FEMA flood zones in relation to the City's CFs and FOCs.
Table 4-16 depicts these statistics for the 100-Year and 500-Year FEMA Flood zones.
TABLE 4-16: CRITICAL FACILITIES AND FACILITIES OF CONCERN LOCATED IN
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Facilities Concern
City facility 23 1 $33,997,380
Community Center/Facility 0 6 $11,450,650
Infrastructure 62 0 $75,815,970
Medical Facility 0 5 **
Parks Facility 0 23 $5,811,980
Schools 0 16 **
Transportation Infrastructure 0 4 $1,340,900
Other 0 50 $42,794,320
Total 85 105 $171,211,200
* Based on the City of Upland insured replacement values **Replacement values are unavailable as they are not City-owned.
Dam and Levee Failure
Three dam or levee areas—San Antonio Dam, Cucamonga Creek Debris Basin, and Upland Basin—pose a threat to downstream areas if their containment structures fail or excessive rain overwhelms their capacity.
Various factors, such as the amount of water released, the distance between the failure site, and the topography of the surrounding land, will influence the extent to which physical assets in Upland are threatened. Figure 4-10 depicts the various dam/reservoir inundation zones in and around the City. San Antonio Dam has a large storage capacity that could cause widespread inundation in Upland and Ontario if the reservoir waters are released due to a dam breach; it's the only one of the three that poses a threat to the City's CFs and FOCs (Table 4-16). 125 Page 520 of 654
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Surface Flooding
Because nearly all of Upland is outside the FEMA 100- and 500-year flood zones, City residents are vulnerable to floods only in minor ways, such as navigating standing water at backed-up street storm drains.
Dam and Levee Failure
Unfortunately, the San Antonio Dam inundation zone covers almost 84% of the City's area and nearly 88% of its population. Table 4-17 shows the details of the three impoundment inundation zones. The demographics of the San Antonio Dam inundation zone closely match those of the entire City because the zone is nearly the entire city. The demographics for the Cucamonga Creek Debris Basin are significantly older and more upmarket: the median income is 54% higher than that of the City as a whole, only 3.6% of the 28 households live under the poverty limit, but 50% of those households include at least one member aged 65 years or over (versus 31% for the City as a whole.)As a counterpoint, the population of the Upland Basin inundation zone is notably younger, poorer, and more likely to rent than the City's population at large.
TABLE 4-17: IMPOUNDMENT FAILURE HAZARD-THREATENED POPULATIONS IN UPLAND Cucamonga
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OTHER THREATS
Surface Flooding
Flooding may temporarily stop any type of transportation in the City. Debris from floodwaters can block roadways, hinder vehicle access, and potentially affect emergency response services.
One foot of rushing water is enough to carry small vehicles. A severe flood may prevent people who own smaller vehicles from driving to work, reducing economic activity. Severe flooding that causes serious damage to homes and businesses may also reduce economic activity until repair work is completed.
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Dam and Levee Failure
Dam failures are often triggered by other events (e.g., seismic shaking, intense rainstorms, etc.). There would most likely be widespread service disruptions in Upland if this type of event occurred. Floodwaters would quickly inundate the City, disrupting utilities like water, power, heating, and other services such as communications or transportation infrastructure. Residents may find street lighting and traffic signals are temporarily disabled. Debris may be carried in the rapid inundation of water, blocking roads and impeding traffic flow. Water would likely inundate roadways and other low-lying, flat areas, such as parking lots, open spaces, and schoolyards.
In severe scenarios, mobility in these areas would likely be restricted or impossible. Any unprotected or unhoused mechanical or electronic equipment not properly elevated would become waterlogged and inoperable until technicians can conduct repairs or replacements.
CHANGES IN POPULATION AND LAND USE DEVELOPMENT
Based on the current General Plan projections, the City's anticipated population growth over the next several years is also anticipated to increase Upland's potential vulnerability to flood and dam-failure hazards.
If the FEMA 100-year flood zone grows in the years ahead, homeowners and businesses presented with the costs of flood insurance—if it's still available—and code compliance may decide to move to less-threatened areas in Upland or neighboring cities.
San Antonio Dam is a vital part of San Bernardino County's flood-control system and isn't going anywhere.As more people move into Upland, they'll necessarily move into the dam's inundation zone.
CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY
Surface Flooding
Climate change will likely increase the City's vulnerability to flooding impacts because of the anticipated increase in the intensity and frequency of atmospheric rivers spawned by changes in local, regional, and global weather patterns. This increases the likelihood of an exceptional rain event in Upland that could overwhelm the capacity of the region's flood control system to contain and drain all the precipitation.
Droughts are also expected to increase in length and frequency. Soil dried by extensive droughts is less able to absorb and drain water, increasing the possibility of urban flooding.
FEMA periodically revamps its flood hazard maps. As conditions change, it's possible that the City's 100- and 500-year flood zones will grow and encompass more people or critical facilities.
Dam and Levee Failure
While the San Antonio Dam impoundment is usually dry, history has shown that extraordinary periods of heavy rain can fill even dry reservoirs very quickly. The proliferation of atmospheric rivers spurred by climate change will create more opportunities to rapidly fill and potentially overtop the dam, with grim consequences. The Cucamonga Creek and Upland basins may also overflow more often.
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CHAPTER 5 -
HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGY
Strategy Development Process
Upland's hazard mitigation strategy is a comprehensive set of actions intended to reduce the impact of hazard events. These hazard mitigation actions will help protect the safety and well- being of residents, visitors, CFs and FOCs, other buildings and structures, key services, the local economy, and other important community assets. Some actions will also help with emergency preparedness, allowing for a more effective community response to hazard events.
Preparedness actions are not required for an LHMP, but they support and complement mitigation activities. The HMPC chose to include them as part of the overall hazard mitigation strategy.
USE OF HAZARD AND THREAT ASSESSMENT
The HMPC relied partly on the hazard profiles and threat assessments in this Plan to develop the mitigation strategy's actions. A comprehensive set of mitigation actions was prepared to respond to the relevant hazard situations and protect residents, businesses, and community assets in Upland. The HMPC ensured that the mitigation actions would help reduce damage from the most frequent types of hazard events, the most significant that may reasonably occur, and those with the greatest potential to harm the community. The HMPC also drafted mitigation actions to help protect the most vulnerable community members and the most vulnerable local assets.
Capabilities Assessment
As part of the effort to draft mitigation actions, the City completed a capabilities assessment, which included reviewing existing policies, personnel, and technical resources to support hazard mitigation activities in Upland. The hazard mitigation actions build off these resources' existing success and leverage their capabilities to support improved resiliency in the community.
The capabilities assessment looked at the following types of resources:
• Personnel resources: City employees and volunteers, and employees and volunteers at other agencies
• Plan resources: Advisory or enforceable plans adopted by the City or other agencies • Policy resources: Policies adopted and implemented by the City or other agencies • Technical resources: Data and tools available to the City • Financial resources: Funding mechanisms available to the City that support mitigation activities
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CAPABILITIES IMPROVEMENT/EXPANSION
The ability to expand current mitigation capabilities will generally be reliant upon the budgeting allocated for each department/program for that fiscal year. The level at which these programs may or may not be expanded upon, will be dependent upon the amount of funding received.
FEMA has released a series of guides over the past few years which highlight some of the ways in which jurisdictions can expand mitigation. Some strategies for increasing current mitigation capabilities may include:
• The City should actively identify, adopt, and enforce the most current set of development codes and standards available. Strongly encouraging new development to be constructed to higher standards than currently required, increasing resilience within the community.
• Engaging parts of the community that may not be actively involved in mitigation efforts. • Expanding the number and types of organizations involved in mitigation planning and implementation, increasing both efficiency and bandwidth. • Fostering new relationships to bring underrepresented populations and partners to the hazard's mitigation planning process.
• During the annual LHMP review, the committee should look for opportunities to fund and expand/enhance the effectiveness of current mitigation actions.
Table 5-1 shows the capabilities assessment for Upland.
TABLE 5-1: CITY OF UPLAND CAPABILITIES ASSESSMENT
Connection to Current
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Legal and Regulatory Capabilities
Upland City The City is in the midst of updating the Expansion and General Plan — Housing Element for the 2021-2029 planning Improvement: The Housing Housing Element period. The current Housing Element contains Element and LHMP will be (2014) the following material: aligned to describe the City • Discusses demographics, such as age and and its population. race.
• Includes a description of the household,
including size, income, and home ownership.
• Discusses new housing growth needs.
• Discusses sustainability and energy efficiency.
• Addresses building code.
The current Housing Element can be found at:
https://www.uplandca.gov/general-plan-map
The latest draft Housing Element can be found
at: https://www.uplandca.gov/2021-2029-
housing-element-update
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Upland City The Land Use Element serves as a guide to Expansion and General Plan — the ultimate development pattern for the City, Improvement: The City will Land Use both within its incorporated boundaries and align the Land Use Element Element (2015) sphere of influence. The Land Use Element: and LHMP to describe • Designates the distribution, location, and developmental trends, balance of land uses. hazards, and potential
• Describes the desired build-out of Upland. development in hazard areas. • Describes building intensity standards for each
land use.
• Communicates population density.
• Ensures compatibility between land uses.
The entire Land Use Element can be found at:
https://www.uplandca.gov/general-plan-map
Upland City The Safety Element identifies potential Expansion and General Plan — hazards: Improvement: The LHMP will Safety Element • Noise be linked by reference to the (2015) • Flooding General Plan's Safety
• Hazardous material release Element. The City will adopt • Seismic and other geologic hazards the approved LHMP as part of the General Plan to meet the
• Wildland and urban fires requirements of AB 2140. As • Airport-related hazards the City revises the Safety Element, it will include
It discusses design standards for new applicable material from the development as they relate to identified fire, LHMP for hazard analysis and seismic, flooding, and noise hazards. goals.
The Safety Element can be found at:
https://www.uplandca.gov/general-plan-map
Area Specific Upland maintains twelve specific plans for Expansion and Plans various areas within the City. These plans Improvement:
govern the land use and development within The LHMP will take the the designated Specific Plan areas, using the specific plans into account overarching precepts of the General Plan as a when determining development foundation. trends, hazards, and mitigation
opportunities.
The Upland specific plans can be found at:
https://www.uplandca.gov/specific-plans
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Capital The CIP outlines the annual appropriations in Expansion and Improvement the City's budget for capital projects involving Improvement: Mitigation Program City infrastructure, such as street and park actions that involve improvements, building construction, and construction or retrofits to City various kinds of major facility maintenance. buildings, facilities, and Expenditure plans that detail funding sources infrastructure may be included and expenditure amounts support capital in the Capital Improvement improvement projects. They are often multi- Program.
year projects that require funding beyond the
one-year period of the annual budget.
Upland Municipal This section of the Municipal Code provides for Expansion and Code—Chapter the preparation and implementation of plans Improvement: The emergency
2.20, Emergency for the protection of people and property within management organization Organization and the City during an emergency, the direction of described in the Municipal Function the emergency organization, and the Code represents a framework coordination of Upland's emergency functions for understanding with all other public agencies, corporations, preparedness activities. It can organizations, and affected private persons. inform the LHMP as to how the City prepares to respond to
This section of the Municipal Code can be hazards.
found at:
https://ec0de360.com/44421866#44421867
Upland Municipal Upland's Buildings and Construction codes Expansion and Code—Title 15, include several individual codes and Improvement: The City can Buildings and regulations, including the City's Building Code, update Buildings and Construction Electrical Code, and Fire Code, which govern Construction codes with local (2023) the construction of new and renovated amendments that require new buildings. The state publishes these standards or renovated buildings to better and local governments adopt them, sometimes resist damage or harm to with amendments to address local issues. occupants during a disaster, They are typically updated every three years, and so may support hazard although more minor updates may occur in the mitigation activities. interim.
The Buildings and Construction safety codes
can be found at:
https://ecode360.com/44427157#44427157
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Upland Municipal The City's Zoning Code is a set of regulations Expansion and Code—Titles 16- for different land uses in the community. It Improvement: Understanding 18, Zoning Code establishes standards for where different types land-use policy and regulatory of development and land use activity may requirements is essential to occur (including defining hazard-prone areas developing mitigation where different development and land use strategies and activities. standards may apply), how they look, how they Mitigation actions that govern can be operated, and the necessary permitting the siting, construction, and and approval processes for development. The operation of new development Zoning Code is an implementation tool of the can be implemented through City's General Plan and plays a significant role the Zoning Code. in determining Upland's appearance and
community characteristics.
The zoning code can be found at:
https://ecode360.com/44487561#44487561
Floodplain Upland's Floodplain Management Regulations Expansion and Management are required for the City's participation in the Improvement: Amendments to Regulations— National Flood Insurance Program. Under the Upland's Floodplain Municipal Code terms of these regulations, construction Management Regulations Chapter 15.56 activities within the 100-year flood plain must could help implement (2008) feature flood-resilient design features. The mitigation actions that address regulations also limit the types of land-use the vulnerability of buildings in activities that can be conducted within the 100- the 100-year floodplain. year floodplain.
The Floodplain Management Regulations can
be found at:
https://ecode360.com/44427325#44427325
Seismic Hazard Upland's Seismic Hazard Identification Expansion and Identification Program aims to identify individual structures Improvement: Mitigation Program — within certain building classes that may pose actions that relate to the Municipal Code heightened threats to their occupants due to seismic resiliency of Chapter 15.48 the nature and manner of their construction. seismically unsafe buildings in The Program will require owners of potentially Upland may be implemented hazardous buildings to submit engineering through amendments to this studies of those buildings to the City's Building set of regulations. Mitigation and Safety Department for review. Owners of actions related to the resiliency buildings determined to pose a hazard will of other building types have to submit to the City a plan for addressing (including other hazards) may the hazard. be implemented through a
similar set of standards.
These regulations can be found at:
https://ecode360.com/44427245#44427245
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City Emergency Explains how the City will respond to a major Expansion and Operations Plan emergency or disaster and coordinate between Improvement: The LHMP (EOP) the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and informs the hazards section of field-level incident commanders. The EOP the EOP, as the two are includes a description of each hazard; the closely correlated. concept of operations during a major
emergency or disaster; the role of the EOC;
and the coordination that occurs between the
EOC, County departments, and other local,
state, and federal governments in times of
disaster.
San Bernardino The San Bernardino County Multi-Jurisdictional Expansion and County Multi- Hazard Mitigation Plan (SBCMHMP) identifies Improvement: The county and Jurisdictional hazard events present in the unincorporated Upland can share resources Hazard areas of San Bernardino County and and best practices for hazard Mitigation Plan recommends mitigation actions to reduce the mitigation activities. Similar (2022) harm from these events. mitigation actions in the counties and Upland's plans
The SBCMHMP can be found at the following can help create more regional link: consistency. Mitigation actions
https://www.sbcounty.gov/uploads/OES/docum that require coordination with ents/Hazardous-Mitigation-Plan.pdf the San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services
or other county agencies may
be integrated into the
SBCMHMP.
California The California Building Standards Code is a Expansion and Building compilation of three types of building standards Improvement: Adherence to Standards Code from three different origins: building codes, including local (2022) • Building standards that state agencies have codes, regulates growth and adopted without change from the International controls land use patterns.
Building Code. Addressing known hazards as
• Building standards that have been adopted and codes are updated results in adapted from national model codes to address lowered risk and potentially California's ever-changing conditions. fewer losses. • Building standards authorized by the California
legislature that constitute amendments not
covered by national model codes, which have
been created and adopted to address California
concerns.
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California California Government Code §§8550-8669.7 Expansion and Emergency codifies the California Emergency Services Improvement: The City shall Services Act Act. It covers the entire range of disaster and maintain a current version of emergency powers and responsibilities of state the Emergency Services Act to and local government dealing with any natural inform the City Council and or human-caused disasters or a state of war. staff of changes to disaster mitigation and preparedness
The California Emergency Services Act can be activities and processes in the found at: state.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes d
isplayexpandedbranch.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&
division=1.&title=2.&part=&chapter=7.&article=
1.&goUp=Y
California State California's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Expansion and Hazard identifies and analyzes the various natural and Improvement: The City can Mitigation Plan human-caused hazards in California. It use the 2023 SHMP as a (2023) includes descriptions of these hazards, source of information to refine summaries of past hazard events, assessment the hazard profiles and of how these hazards may harm people and vulnerability assessments in other assets in California, and projections of future LHMPs. future hazard conditions.
The California SHMP can be found at:
https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-
d i rector/operations/recovery-
d irectorate/hazard-mitigation/state-mitigation-
planninq/
National Flood The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Expansion and Insurance makes federally backed flood insurance Improvement: City websites Program available to homeowners, renters, and and social media accounts will business owners in participating communities. include information on the The City will continue to participate in the NFIP value of NFIP insurance for program and will make changes accordingly. properties located in flood hazard areas and how to buy
the insurance.
Administrative and Technical Capabilities
Development The Development Services Department is Expansion and Services responsible for conducting short- and long- Improvement: The Department term planning activities in Upland, approving Development Services building permits and business licenses, and Department staff can conduct inspecting private properties. Through these any mitigation actions related activities, the Development Services to land use, construction of Department enforces the City's Buildings and new structures or retrofits to Construction codes and related standards, as existing ones, and operating well as all land-use regulations. conditions of private property. 136 Page 531 of 654
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Finance Division Upland's Finance Division—part of the City's Expansion and Administrative Services Department—is Improvement: Finance responsible for the City's financial operations. Division staff can support It conducts budgeting activities, manages the efforts to improve local City's payroll, provides general accounting resiliency by integrating services, and prepares financial reports. mitigation actions into the City budget and administering
mitigation-related grants.
Fire Department Upland contracts with the San Bernardino Expansion and County Fire District for firefighting, fire Improvement: Provide training protection, and emergency medical response for staff to enable them to see services in the community. This includes potential hazards better and mitigation activities that reduce the likelihood of take action to report them. Use fires or limit the damage from such events. the Fire Marshall to provide Department activities also include efforts to input into the LHMP mitigation prepare for local disasters and support a more action plan. effective response. The Fire Department is
responsible for mitigation actions that involve
resiliency to wildfire.
Police The Upland Police Department is responsible Expansion and Department for law enforcement, criminal investigation, Improvement: Provide training traffic control, and emergency response. to officers to enable them to Mitigation actions that fall within the Police see potential hazards better Department's purview include those related to and take action to report them. the safe movement of traffic and the security of
community members during emergencies.
Public Works The Upland Public Works Department is Expansion and Department responsible for engineering, permitting, Improvement: Public Works maintenance, and operation of the City's engineers and technicians infrastructure, including public buildings, manage the city's streets, sidewalks, roadway medians, alleys, infrastructure. They possess a public parking lots, traffic signals, streetlights, critical understanding of the and so on. The Department also manages the risks posed by hazards and solid waste and recycling programs as well as potential mitigation activities to the City's storm water program and sewer address the risks to lifeline collection main lines. infrastructure. Their input into developing infrastructure
mitigation strategies and
actions is critical.
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Water Division Upland's Water Division, part of the City's Expansion and Public Works Department, provides its Improvement: The Water and residents with a safe and reliable supply of Wastewater Department staff high-quality drinking water. The water may implement any mitigation delivered meets all state and federal drinking actions that involve Upland's water standards for quality and safety. To water sources, how much ensure the best quality water possible is water the community uses, the produced, the City continually evaluates City's water or wastewater- Upland's water supply using sophisticated related infrastructure, or other equipment and advanced procedures. Upland issues related to water and has access to local and imported water supply wastewater services. resources through its own direct water rights
and through ownership arrangements with a
number of private water districts.
Floodplain The duties and responsibilities of the Expansion and Manager Floodplain Administrator include: Improvement: The Floodplain • Permit review Administrator supports
• Flood hazard reduction compliance with NFIP
• NFIP program administration requirements, advocates for Construction inspections appropriate development in • flood hazard areas, and
provides technical expertise on
effective flood mitigation
activities. These actions can
support mitigation activities.
Planning This seven-member Commission, established Expansion and Commission by state law—studies, proposed developments Improvement: Provide that may affect the community's growth and continued education environment. This Commission determines opportunities for Planning whether proposed developments will meet the Commission members to City's technical, environmental, and aesthetic maintain state-of-the-art standards. The Commission holds public knowledge of new code and hearings to review development plan regulatory requirements. compliance with the City's zoning regulations
and General Plan.
Upland The San Bernardino County Fire District Office Expansion and Emergency of Emergency Services provides emergency Improvement: The ESO works Management management services to Upland by providing closely with the City and whole Program the City with an Emergency Services Officer community to ensure all (ESO). This ESO is responsible for the emergency management development of the City's disaster plans, functions are effectively disaster training and exercise program, and implemented. The ESO can oversight of the City's EOC. enforce consistency between the LHMP and other
emergency plans.
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City Attorney The City Attorney provides legal advice to the Expansion and City Council and City Manager and reviews Improvement: Provide and approves resolutions and ordinances. opportunities for the City Attorney to review updates to
regulatory information to
provide expert review of county
and state resolutions and
ordinances that address
hazard mitigation
City Clerk The City Clerk administers local elections, all Expansion and legislative actions, and public transparency Improvement: The City Clerk functions. The City Clerk is also a compliance is integral to the LHMP officer for federal, state, and local statutes, adoption process. She/he including the Political Reform Act and the makes sure the adoption Brown Act. resolution meets all
administrative requirements.
Community GIS Provides complex mapping and data Expansion and management of City facilities, land use, and Improvement: Acquire and potential hazards. It supports the visualization conduct training for GIS of complex data sets using geolocation and technicians on the latest data correlation. versions of ArcGIS. Integrate
GIS into the City EOC.
San Bernardino The San Bernardino County Office of Expansion and County Office of Emergency Services (SBC OES) is responsible Improvement: Mitigation Emergency for emergency planning, hazard mitigation, and actions involving coordination Services emergency response and recovery activities with county agencies or other throughout the county, in collaboration with cities may be facilitated local communities. SBC OES helps coordinate through work with SBC OES. activities between the county and cities, SBC OES can also support conducts emergency training and exercises, Upland's own hazard and manages emergency grants, among other mitigation activities by activities. providing funding or other
resources.
San Bernardino Upland is a participant on the San Bernardino Expansion and County County Operational Area Coordinating Council Improvement: OACC's Operational Area (OACC). The OACC consists of one primary functions of enabling the Coordinating representative from each jurisdiction within the exchange of critical Council Operational Area. It works along with local preparedness information and governments, SBC OES, the California Office discussion of resource of Emergency Services, and the Federal management better prepare Emergency Management Agency to better Upland, the county, and the prepare and plan for potential disasters within state to respond to human- California. caused and natural disasters.
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San Bernardino The San Bernardino County Flood Control Expansion and County Flood District—part of the county's Department of Improvement: Mitigation Control District Public Works—is responsible for constructing actions that involve changes to and maintaining flood control infrastructure in flood control infrastructure in San Bernardino County, such as drainage Upland will likely require basins and channels. The District also is a support and coordination with partial operator of the Seven Oaks Dam on the the County Flood Control headwaters of the Santa Ana River. The District.
courses of the Santa Ana River and Warm
Creek, as well as various drainage channels
throughout Upland, fall under the District's
purview.
San Bernardino The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water Expansion and Valley Municipal District (SBVMWD) is responsible for long-term Improvement: The City can Water District water supply in the San Bernardino Valley. The work with SBVMWD on District acts as a water wholesaler, obtaining mitigation actions that relate to water from various sources and distributing it local water supply and water to local water suppliers. The SBVMWD imports use.
water from the State Water Project and
manages most of the valley's groundwater
basins.
Inland Empire Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) receives Expansion and Utilities Agency State Water Project-imported water from the Improvement: The City can Metropolitan Water District of Southern work with IEUA on mitigation California. This water passes through the actions that relate to local Water Facilities Authority's Agua de Lejos water supply and water use. treatment plant in Upland, of which Upland
owns a 22% interest. IEUA completed regional
pipeline facilities and began delivering recycled
water in 2013, which serves large landscape
irrigation customers in the City.
San Antonio The San Antonio Water Company (SAWCo) is Expansion and Water Company a private mutual water utility that is 68% owned Improvement: Mitigation by the City of Upland. SAWCo provides actions involving water supply approximately 50% of the City's water through and use can be implemented in local groundwater and surface water from San collaboration with the SAWCo.
Antonio Canyon. The surface water is treated
at the City's San Antonio Water Treatment
Plant. SAWCo is responsible for sourcing
water, maintaining water delivery
infrastructure, and administering water
conservation and related programs for its
service territory.
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West End The West End Consolidated Water Company Expansion and Consolidated (WECW Co) is a private mutual water utility Improvement: Mitigation Water Company that is 93% owned by the City of Upland. actions involving water supply WECWCo provides about 15% of the City's and use can be implemented in water through its ownership of six groundwater collaboration with the wells. It is responsible for sourcing water, WECWCo. maintaining water delivery infrastructure, and
administering water conservation and related
programs for its service territory.
Riverside Urban The UASI program enhances the Expansion and Area Security preparedness level of high-threat communities. Improvement: Continue Initiative (UASI) With support from the UASI and related participation through San Homeland Security grant programs, Bernardino County's stakeholders in the Riverside/San Bernardino representation in the UASI urban areas are engaged in a multi-disciplinary leadership. and multi-jurisdictional partnership to improve
local capacity to prepare for, protect against,
respond to, and recover from catastrophic
incidents.
Southern Functions as the Metropolitan Planning Expansion and California Organization for Los Angeles, Orange, San Improvement: Attend SCAG Association of Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, and Imperial meetings. Continue to Governments Counties. The federal government mandates participate in SCAG-sponsored (SCAG) SCAG to research and draw up plans for programs. Routinely transportation, growth management, coordinate with SCAG staff to hazardous waste management, and air quality. stay informed of current planning initiatives.
California The California Governor's Office of Emergency Expansion and Governor's Services (Cal OES) is responsible for reducing Improvement:
Office of hazards through mitigation activities, The City can work with Cal Emergency conducting emergency planning, supporting OES to obtain funding to Services emergency response and recovery activities, implement LHMP mitigation and mediating between local and federal strategies and receive future agencies on emergency-related issues. Cal updates.
OES guides hazard mitigation planning
activities, shares best practices, and distributes
funding opportunities.
Cal-Adapt Cal-Adapt is an online tool that provides Expansion and detailed projections for future climate-related Improvement:
conditions in California, including factors such The City can use Cal-Adapt to as temperature, precipitation, and sea-level monitor anticipated changes in rise. These projections can help inform future future climate conditions and hazard planning and explain how hazard adjust mitigation actions conditions are expected to change. accordingly.
Cal-Adapt can be found at: https://cal-
adapt.org/
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California The California Department of Transportation Expansion and Department of (Caltrans) has design, construction, operation, Improvement:
Transportation and maintenance jurisdiction over designated The City will coordinate with state and federal highways, including CA-66, Caltrans to implement CA-83, CA-210, and Interstate 1-10. mitigation measures related to ensuring the resilience of
state-designated routes.
South Coast Air The South Coast Air Quality Management Expansion and Quality District (South Coast AQMD) develops plans Improvement:
Management and regulations designed to achieve public Some of the City's mitigation District health standards by reducing emissions from actions involve installing diesel business and industry. South Coast AQMD's generators for power backup.
Governing Board adopts plans and regulations The City will have to for the region, then submits them to the coordinate with South Coast California Air Resources Board and the federal AQMD to obtain permits to EPA. operate these generators and
to remain within clear air goals
while operating them.
Federal The Federal Emergency Management Agency Expansion and Emergency (FEMA) is responsible for hazard mitigation, Improvement:
Management emergency preparedness, and emergency FEMA can assist Upland with Agency response and recovery at the national level. developing mitigation actions FEMA provides hazard mitigation guidance to and support their state and local governments, including implementation through grants. information on best practices and compliance The agency also provides with federal requirements for hazard mitigation guidance that Upland will use plans. It also provides a number of grants for in future updates to its LHMP. hazard mitigation activities.
American Red The American Red Cross is a humanitarian Expansion and Cross assistance organization that provides disaster Improvement:
relief services in the aftermath of emergency There may be opportunities for events. This includes operating emergency the Red Cross to support disaster shelters, distributing meals and relief mitigation activities related to supplies, and providing basic health services. community engagement and education.
BNSF Railway The BNSF Railway is one of the country's Expansion and major freight railroad companies. It owns the Improvement:
main north-south railway line in Upland, along Mitigation actions that relate to with various spur lines, and operates a rail yard the resilience of Upland's immediately north of the City. railway and related issues will need to be implemented in
coordination with BNSF.
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Southern Southern California Edison (SCE) provides Expansion and California Edison electricity to most of Southern California. It also Improvement:
owns and operates the high-voltage electrical The City will need to transmission lines and most of the electrical coordinate with SCE regarding substations in the community. SCE's Public mitigation actions that involve Safety Power Shutoff program may shut off the resilience of Upland's electrical service to parts of Upland when high- neighborhood and high-voltage fire-risk weather conditions arise. transmission lines and other electrical infrastructure. SCE
can also support other
mitigation actions that involve
electricity.
Southern The Southern California Gas Company Expansion and California Gas (SoCalGas) is the natural gas service provider Improvement:
Company for most of Southern California, including The City will need to Upland. In addition to providing natural gas coordinate with SoCal Gas on services, it owns and operates the natural gas implementation of mitigation infrastructure in and around the community. actions that involve natural gas use or relate to the resilience
of natural gas infrastructure.
Financial Resources
General Fund Upland's General Fund is revenue that the City Expansion and collects from sales tax, property tax, other Improvement: The General taxes, license and permit fees, fines, and Fund can provide the financial various other sources. Unlike other sources of resources to implement revenue that are often restricted to specific mitigation actions that cannot types of projects or programs, General Fund be feasibly funded through revenue may be used for any City expenses. other mechanisms, including Currently, most General Fund revenue is spent paying for additional staff as on City staff salary and benefits. needed.
Water Utility The Water Utility Fund is a separate fund Expansion and Fund amassed from the fees charged to City water Improvement: The Water customers. Salaries for water employees are Utility Fund may support paid from these funds, along with maintenance mitigation actions that involve and operations of water systems, capital water service or infrastructure improvements to water infrastructure, and in Upland.
other charges related to these services.
Community The federal CDBG program provides funding Expansion and Development for eligible senior activities such as in-home Improvement: Where Block Grants care, art classes, counseling, and home- applicable, CDBG grants (CDBG) delivered meals. HUD also provides disaster should be used to fund recovery assistance in the form of flexible mitigation projects that grants to help cities, counties, and states enhance the resiliency of low- recover from Presidentially declared disasters, income and underserved especially in low-income areas, subject to the communities. availability of supplemental appropriations.
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Hazard Provides support for pre- and post-disaster Expansion and Mitigation Grant mitigation plans and projects. Improvement: Train staff on Program notice of intent (NOI)
(HMGP) procedures and track
opportunities on the Cal OES
mitigation website to initiate
applications for grant funding.
State Homeland SHSGP is a FEMA grant passed through the Expansion and Security Grant State of California and the San Bernardino Improvement: Familiarize staff Program Operational Area, to public safety agencies with the proposal and review (SHSGP) within the county. The grant's purpose is to process at the OA and state build capabilities to protect against, prevent, level. Work with the Approval respond to, and recover from terrorist acts and Authority to include Investment other types of emergencies or disasters. Justifications for Upland- Project funds are available under the following related projects. four categories: Equipment, Planning, Training,
or Exercise.
California Authorizes $7.545 billion in general obligation Expansion and Proposition One bonds to fund ecosystems and watershed Improvement: Provides Bond Programs protection and restoration, water supply monetary opportunities for infrastructure projects, including surface and projects that are outside groundwater storage, and drinking water traditional mitigation projects. protection.
Building Resilient Provides support for pre-disaster mitigation Expansion and Infrastructure plans and projects. Improvement: Train staff on and NOI procedures and track
Communities opportunities on the Cal OES
(BRIC) mitigation website to initiate
*The BRIC program still exists; however, it is applications for grant funding. not currently being funded.
Flood Mitigation Mitigates structures and infrastructure that Expansion and Assistance Grant have been repetitively flooded. Improvement: Train staff on Program (FMA) NOI procedures and track
opportunities on the Cal OES
mitigation website to initiate
applications for grant funding.
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Education and Outreach Capabilities
Ready Upland— The Ready Upland content on the City website Expansion and Disaster offers residents and businesses a guide to Improvement: Provide links to Preparedness disaster preparedness. It discusses county, state, and federal Web content evacuation, making an emergency plan, preparedness information. stocking supplies, staying informed, and
getting involved.
Ready Upland can be found at:
https://www.uplandca.gov/readyupland
City Social In addition to normal City business and events, Expansion and Media Accounts: Upland's social media accounts provide alert Improvement:
and warning information, safety and evacuation Repost emergency-related procedures, and information on home and news and directions from individual preparedness. neighboring cities, county, state, and federal social media
The City's social media accounts include: during disasters. Post • Facebook preparedness-related material
• Instagram that links to the appropriate
x sources.
•Community Upland's CERT program educates residents Expansion and Emergency about disaster preparedness for hazards that Improvement:
Response Team may impact their area and trains them in basic Include material in CERT (CERT) disaster response skills, such as fire safety, curriculum that provides light search and rescue, team organization, updates to progress in the and disaster medical operations. mitigation action plan, including links to the
Using the training learned in the classroom and appropriate website page. during practical exercises, CERT members can CERT volunteers can also assist others in their neighborhood or assist with mitigation-related workplace immediately following an event outreach activities. when professional emergency responders are
not immediately available to help.
San Bernardino The county's Emergency Alerts program can Expansion and County Smart send high-speed mass notifications via Improvement: The City will 911 Emergency telephone, email, and text messages during continue to conduct community Alerts emergencies and disasters. This system can outreach to increase the be targeted to specific geographic areas. number of residents who are subscribers.
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Cal OES Family The Guide provides a comprehensive toolkit for Expansion and Readiness Guide making a family emergency plan. Improvement: Provide a link to the Readiness Guide on the
The Cal OES Family Readiness Guide can be City website and Facebook found at: account.
https://www.caloes.ca.gov/wp-
content/uploads/Preparedness/Documents/Cal
OES Family Readiness GuideENG.pdf
Ready.gov FEMA's comprehensive disaster preparedness Expansion and and response website for businesses and Improvement: Provide a link residents. It includes information about drafting to Ready.gov on the City web family and business emergency plans, building page and Facebook account. go kits, acquiring emergency supplies, and
how to react to various types of disasters.
https://www.ready.gov/
Hazard Mitigation Strategies
HAZARD MITIGATION GOALS
The goals identified in Chapter 1 help develop policies to protect community members, ecosystems, and other important assets from hazard events. These goals informed the development of mitigation actions and functioned as checkpoints to help City staff determine implementation progress.
EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL HAZARD MITIGATION ACTIONS
The HMPC prepared a set of potential mitigation actions based on hazard profiles, threat and capability assessments, community survey results, discussions among HMPC members, and existing best practices. Next, the HMPC evaluated these potential actions using the following criteria:
• FEMA requires local governments to evaluate potential mitigation actions' monetary and non-monetary costs and benefits. While local governments are not required to assign specific dollar values to each action, they should identify the general size of costs and benefits. The HMPC may elect to include measures with high costs or low benefits, but such measures should benefit the community and make appropriate use of local resources.
• FEMA also directs local governments to consider the following questions as part of the financial analysis:
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland o What is the frequency and severity of the hazard type to be addressed by the action, and how vulnerable is the community to this hazard? o What impacts of the hazard will the action reduce or avoid? o What benefits will the action provide to the community? The HMPC also reviewed and revised the potential hazard mitigation actions using the STAPLE/E (Social, Technical, Administrative, Political, Legal, Economic, and Environmental) criteria (Table 5-2). The HMPC did not formally assess every potential mitigation action under all STAPLE/E criteria but used the criteria to guide and inform the discussion. The HMPC also discussed how the criteria might evaluate grant applications the City may submit to receive funding for LHMP implementation.
CHANGES TO PREVIOUS MITIGATION ACTIONS
A review of the mitigation actions from the 2016 Upland LHMP has identified that these existing actions are still relevant and have been incorporated into this Plan update. None of the previous actions were removed from this plan and have been shaded in blue in Table 5-3. All actions from the 2016 LHMP were carried over to this plan, and none were removed. 147 Page 542 of 654
TABLE 5-2: STAPLE/E CRITERIA
Issues Criteria
Social • Is the action socially acceptable to Upland community members? • Would the action mistreat some individuals?
• Is there a reasonable chance of the action causing a social disruption? Technical • Is the action likely to reduce the risk of the hazard occurring, or will it reduce the hazard's effects?
• Will the action create new hazards or make existing hazards worse? • Is the action the most useful approach for Upland to take, given the City and community members' goals?
Administrative • Does the City have the administrative capabilities to implement the action? • Are there existing City staff who can lead and coordinate the implementation of the measure, or can the City reasonably hire new staff for this role? • Does the City have enough staff,funding, technical support, and other resources to implement the action?
• Are there administrative barriers to implementing the action? Political • Is the action politically acceptable to City officials and other relevant jurisdictions and political entities?
• Do community members support the action?
Legal • Does the City have the legal authority to implement and enforce the action? • Are there potential legal barriers or consequences that could hinder or prevent the implementation of the action?
• Is there a reasonable chance that the implementation of the action would expose the City to legal liabilities?
• Could the action reasonably face other legal challenges? Economic • What are the monetary costs of the action, and do the costs exceed the monetary benefits?
• What are the start-up and maintenance costs of the action, including administrative costs?
• Has the funding for action implementation been secured, or is a potential funding source available?
• How will funding the action affect the City's financial capabilities? • Could the implementation of the action reasonably burden the Upland economy or tax base?
• Could there reasonably be other budgetary and revenue impacts to the City? Environmental • What are the potential environmental impacts of the action? • Will the action require environmental regulatory approvals? • Will the action comply with all applicable federal, state, regional, and local environmental regulations?
• Will the action reasonably affect any endangered, threatened, or otherwise sensitive species of concern?
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Hazard Mitigation Actions
Based on the criteria and evaluation processes used during Plan development, the HMPC prepared a prioritized list of mitigation actions (Table 5-3) to improve Upland's resilience to hazard events. These actions collectively form Upland's hazard mitigation strategy.
The list of actions also includes preparedness activities that are intended to improve emergency response for the City and community members when hazard events occur or are imminent.
Although these actions are not considered mitigation activities, they are expected to decrease the harm the community faces from hazard events and so support the same goals as mitigation actions.
Table 5-3 identifies the 2025 mitigation strategies and actions proposed by the City as part of this LHMP process. In addition to the list of actions, the table also identifies potential funding sources, responsible departments, relative cost estimates, timeframes, and priorities for these actions, which are described further below. In addition to mitigation action and strategies, several preparedness activities were identified and denoted with the letter "P."
POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES
Table 5-3 identifies the potential funding sources that may be used to implement mitigation strategies. These funding sources include the following federal and state sources:
• Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC): A competitive FEMA grant program to support states, local communities, tribes, and territories. • Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA): A competitive grant program that provides funding to states, local communities, federally recognized tribes, and territories.
Funds can be used for projects that reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured by the National Flood Insurance Program. • Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP): Provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to rebuild in a way that reduces or mitigates future disaster losses in their communities. This grant funding is available after a presidentially declared disaster.
• State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP): This FEMA grant is passed through Cal OES and the San Bernardino Operational Area to public safety agencies within the county. The grant helps build capabilities to protect against, prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist acts and other types of emergencies or disasters. • Emergency Management Performance Grant Program (EMPG): The federal government, through the EMPG Program, provides necessary direction, coordination, and guidance and provides necessary assistance, as authorized in this title, to support a comprehensive all-hazards emergency preparedness system. • Other Grants: Other grants may include State of California grants associated with climate change, water infrastructure, homeland security, transportation, or other funding sources that periodically become available. The list below provides some common sources:
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o Climate Adaptation Planning Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Program - Department of Transportation
o Sustainable Communities Competitive — Department of Transportation o CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants Program—Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
o Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program's Climate Adaptation Planning Grant— Office of Planning and Research
o Small Community Drought Relief Program — Department of Water Resources o Addressing Climate Impacts — Department of Fish and Wildlife o Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods (CLEAN) Program — Department of Toxic Substances Control
o Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Program Construction — State Water Resources Control Board
o Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) Construction — State Water Resources Control Board
o Water Recycling Funding Program (WRFP) Construction Grant — State Water Resources Control Board
o Equitable Community Revitalization Grants (ECRG) — Department of Toxic Substances Control
o Water Recycling Funding Program (WRFP) Planning Grant — State Water Resources Control Board
o Infrastructure State Revolving Fund (ISRF) Program - Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT
Table 5-3 includes the identification of key responsible departments that will be focused on future implementation of mitigation strategies and actions identified by the City.
RELATIVE COST ESTIMATES
The HMPC identified relative cost estimates to meet the hazard mitigation planning process's cost estimation requirements based on their understanding of the mitigation action intent and their experience developing identical or similar programs/implementing projects. Three cost categories based on the City's typical cost criteria were used for budgeting purposes:
• Low cost ($): $75,000 or less
• Medium cost ($$): $75,001 to $4,999,999
• High cost ($$$): Greater than $5,000,000
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TIMEFRAMES
Table 5-3 includes timeframes that provide general timing durations due to the nature of the mitigation actions identified by the City. The following timeframes are used based on the following conditions:
• Ongoing (Annually): Actions that identify this timeframe are the types of actions that City staff would conduct annually.
• Ongoing: Actions that identify this timeframe include periodic activities that City staff would conduct in response to a request by internal (City departments) or external (residents, businesses) forces.
• Long Term: Actions identified within this timeframe are considered low-priority actions that the City would like to continue to track but doesn't feel they would be able to implement in the current planning implementation timeframe.
For actions that use these terms, it is intended to identify that the action may add to existing capabilities and not have a particular start, end date, or occur periodically. This is typically used for actions that include new policies, tasks, or standard operating procedures intended to mitigate future risks. If a single year is stated in the timeframe column, this indicates the year the action will begin
PRIORITIZATION
As part of the mitigation actions development and review, the HMPC also prioritized the actions.
The prioritization efforts looked at the risks and threats of each hazard, financial costs and benefits, technical feasibility, and community values. HMPC members were asked to identify their priority actions through a voting exercise. Items are prioritized based on the number of votes each mitigation action receives from the HMPC members. These quantitative scores were then converted to low, medium, and high priority qualitative categories.
Based on the criteria and evaluation processes used during Plan development, the HMPC prepared a prioritized list of mitigation actions Table 5-3 to improve Upland's resilience to hazard events.
2025 Hazard Mitigation Actions Plan
Based on the criteria and evaluation processes used during Plan development, the HMPC prepared a prioritized list of mitigation actions to improve Upland's resilience to hazard events.
These actions collectively form Upland's hazard mitigation strategy.
The list of actions also includes preparedness activities that are intended to improve emergency response for the City and community members when hazard events occur or are imminent.
Although these actions are not considered mitigation activities, they are expected to decrease the harm the community faces from hazard events and so support the same goals as mitigation actions.
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Emergency Preparedness Activities
P01 Conduct regular emergency preparedness drills General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Medium and training exercises for City staff. EMPG Management, Fire
P02 Expand participation in the Upland Community General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Low Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. EMPG Management, Fire
P03 Verify that community evacuation plans include General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Medium provisions for community members who don't EMPG Management, have access to private vehicles or are otherwise Fire unable to drive.
PO4 Continue to provide effective emergency General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Medium notifications through multiple media formats, in EMPG Management, languages appropriate for the community, about Fire
pending, imminent, or ongoing emergency events.
Plan to make information accessible to people
with access and functional needs.
P05 Continuously update response procedures for first General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Low responder departments to properly address new EMPG Management, hazard events as they emerge. Fire
P06 Increase the number of City staff members who General Fund, Emergency $$ Ongoing Medium have CalOES Safety Assessment Program (SAP) EMPG Management, credentials. Fire, Building
and Safety
Division,
Community
Development
Department
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Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority P07 Establish or update agreements with local schools General Fund, Emergency $ Ongoing Medium so that school facilities can function as evacuation EMPG Management, sites during major emergencies. Fire
Multiple Hazards
MH01 Install digital signage in key locations to aid in General Fund, Emergency $ 2027 Low public outreach and information dissemination EMPG Management, during emergency events. Fire, Public
Works
Department
MH02 Amend Municipal Code Title 17, Part 3, General Fund Emergency $ 2026 Low §17.15.220.H(3) to allow emergency-related Management public service messages to constitute up to 50%
of messages displayed during a one-hour period
on all permitted electronic changeable-copy signs
during a proclaimed emergency.
MH03 Conduct routine updates to Facility Conditions General Fund, Building and $$ Annually Low Assessments for City-owned infrastructure and BRIO/ HMGP Safety Division other utilities and coordinate with other agencies Grants, Other to ensure inspections of other important Grants
infrastructure. (Hazards addressed: All)
MH04 Collaborate closely with community groups to General Fund, Community $ Annually Low increase awareness of hazard events and BRIC/ HMGP Development resiliency opportunities among socially vulnerable Grants, Other Department, community members, including those Grants Community experiencing homelessness. (Hazards addressed: Services All) Department
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority MH05 Closely monitor changes in the boundaries of General Fund, Community $ Annually Low mapped hazard areas resulting from land use BRIC/ HMGP Development changes or climate change and adopt new Grants, Other Department mitigation actions or revise existing ones to Grants ensure continued resiliency. (Hazards addressed:
All)
MH06 Integrate policy direction and other information General Fund, All Departments $ Following All Medium from this Plan into other City documents, including BRIC/ HMGP Plan the General Plan, Emergency Operations Plan, Grants, Other Updates and Capital Improvements Program. (Hazards Grants
addressed: All)
MH07 Monitor funding sources for hazard mitigation General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low activities. (Hazards addressed: All) BRIC/ HMGP Grants, Other
Grants
MH08 Integrate climate change mitigation and General Fund, All Departments $ Following All Low adaptation information and analysis into future BRIC/ HMGP Plan LHMP updates and other City plans, where Grants, Other Updates practicable. (Hazards addressed: All) Grants
MH09 Update the City's Master Plans periodically (in General Fund, Public Works $$ Following Medium conjunction with the LHMP and CIP) to BRIC/ HMGP Department, LHMP/CIP incorporate new data/ mapping and/or address Grants, Other Community Updates emerging issues. (Hazards addressed: All) Grants Development Department
MH10 Create an inventory of all senior centers, mobile General Fund, Fire, $ Annually Medium home parks (especially those located in the BRIC/ HMGP Community VHFHSZ), and other vulnerable populations to Grants, Other Services ensure that this population group is accounted for Grants Department in emergency scenarios where evacuation is
required. (Hazards addressed: All)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Seismic Hazards (Fault Rupture, Seismic Shaking)
EQ01 Develop projects and programs to install HMGP, HUD Development $ Long Term Low automatic gas shut-off valves in residential, Services commercial, and public buildings. (Building and Safety), Public
Works
EQ02 Conduct an educational campaign to incentivize General Fund, Fire, $ Long Term Low and promote medium-scale seismic retrofits, such EMPG, HMGP Community as window films to minimize shattering, rooftop- Grants, Development mounted equipment anchors, masonry chimney California Department bracing, and other preventative measures to Earthquake reduce damage to private buildings. Authority Grants, Other Grants
EQ03 Develop a small project-based retrofit program to General Fund, Fire $ Long Term Low assist homeowners with simple earthquake BRIC/ HMGP mitigation activities (i.e., water heater straps, Grants, furniture anchoring, gas shut-off tools, and other California emergency supplies)to reduce strain on City Earthquake resources during an event. Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ04 Develop and sponsor projects and programs to General Fund, Building and 2027 Medium brace new or relocated mobile homes to resist BRIC/ HMGP Safety Division earthquakes Grants,
California
Earthquake
Authority Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority EQ05 Conduct a seismic analysis of all City-owned key General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Medium facilities and retrofit vulnerable facilities. BRIC/ HMGP Department Grants,
California
Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ06 Require periodic inspection by the Office of General Fund, Building and $ 2027 Low Building and Safety of all critical, essential, and EMPG, California Safety Division high-occupancy buildings to identify potential Earthquake hazards in the event of a major earthquake. When Authority Grants, hazards are identified, require mitigation by the Other Grants owner.
EQ07 To the extent feasible, construct all new City- General Fund, Public Works $$$ 2028 Low owned facilities to remain operational in the event BRIC/ HMGP Department of a major earthquake. Grants,
California
Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ08 Retrofit key critical facilities with seismically rated General Fund, Public Works $$ 2028 Low window film treatments that prevent glass BRIC/ HMGP Department windows from shattering during a strong seismic Grants, event. California
Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ09 Improve local understanding of the threat of a General Fund, Building and $ 2028 Low major earthquake by conducting a citywide BRIC/ HMGP Safety Division assessment modeling potential losses due to Grants,
destroyed and damaged structures, and California
interruptions to key services. Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority EQ10 Analyze the City's building and housing stock to General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium create an inventory of seismically vulnerable BRIC/ HMGP Department, buildings (unreinforced masonry, soft-story Grants, Community construction, non-ductile concrete buildings) California Development within the city and conduct an educational Earthquake Department program providing information on how to begin Authority Grants, the process of seismically retrofitting these Other Grants buildings.
Fire (Wildland Fire, Wildland I Urban Interface Fire)
F01 Develop and sponsor an enhanced public General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low education program based on targeted needs that BRIC/ HMGP encourages the public to take responsibility for Grants, wildfire protection. California
Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F02 Develop and sponsor a defensible space Cal Fire Grants, Fire $ Long Term Low management program to support CA Public Other Grants Resource Code §4291.
F03 Require development applicants in areas of General Fund Community $ Long Term Low identified fire risk to prepare a site-specific fire Development protection plan. Department
F04 Require applicants to fund expansion of local fire General Fund Development $ Ongoing Low protection services by payment of appropriate Services impact fees.
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F05 Continue to disseminate an informational General Fund, Building and $ Ongoing Low brochure on design and construction standards HMGP Grants, Safety Division required in the Fire Hazard Overlay through the California Division of Building and Safety. Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F06 Promote the proper maintenance and separation General Fund, Fire, Public $ Annually Low of power lines and efficient response to fallen HMGP Grants, Information power lines, particularly in the WUI and California Officer VHFHSZs. Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F07 Identify funding for existing non-conforming General Fund, Fire $$ Annually Medium retrofits in fire-prone areas to use non- BRIC/ HMGP combustible building materials such as masonry, Grants, brick, stucco, concrete, steel, or others as California appropriate. Establish defensible space zones Climate
around homes in these areas to reduce fire Resilience vulnerability. Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F08 Routinely participate in regional areas focused on General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low wildfire preparedness and investigate the HMGP Grants, feasibility of developing additional defensible California space and home hardening guidance for existing Climate structures. Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
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Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F09 Create a rapid response plan from among General Fund, Fire $ 2027 Low Upland's and surrounding counties' first BRIC/ HMGP
responders to secure hospital, nursing, and Grants, assisted-living facilities, especially those located California within fire hazard severity zones. Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F10 Clear dead vegetation and invasive plants in flood General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low control facility footprints, trails, parks, and open HMGP Grants, spaces, especially during and after a drought California episode. Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F11 Coordinate with surrounding jurisdictions on home General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low hardening and vegetation management BRIC/ HMGP
assessments to assist residents in understanding Grants, and addressing wildfire risk. California
Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F12 Conduct regular fuel modification projects and General Fund, Fire, Public $$ Annually Low clear vegetation to reduce fire hazard risks, such BRIC/ HMGP Works as removal of dead vegetation and invasive plants Grants, Department in parks, open spaces, and right-of-way California
embankments and creating larger buffers within Climate the wildland-urban interface. Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F13 Create a fire-adapted landscape program to assist General Fund, Fire, $$ 2027 Low existing property owners with retrofits. BRIC/ HMGP Community Grants, Development
California Department
Climate
Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F14 Add emergency alert and warning signage along General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Low the hazard-prone areas in the VHFHSZ to provide EMPG, BRIC/ Department critical information and evacuation instruction HMGP Grants, during fire emergencies. Cal Fire Grants,
Other Grants
Human-Caused Hazards (Hazardous Materials Release, Landfill Subsidence, Transportation Incidents, Cybercrime Incidents, Mass Casualty/Fatality Incidents) H01 Conduct active shooter training and exercises for General Fund, Police $ Annually Medium City staff, residents, and businesses. (Hazard SHSGP Grants, Department, addressed: MCl/MFI) UASI, Other Fire
Grants
H02 Retrofit critical facilities, administration buildings, General Fund, Police $$$ 2028 High and other city-owned buildings deemed important, SHSGP Grants, Department, along with CPTED design elements and building UASI, Other Public Works materials. (Hazard addressed: MCl/MFI) Grants
H03 Coordinate and enhance datasets for schools, General Fund, Police $ 2027 Low medical facilities, senior assisted-living facilities, SHSGP Grants, Department, and other critical facilities with the school district UASI, Other Fire and other key entities within the City to better Grants respond to mass-casualty incidents. (Hazard
addressed: MCl/MFI)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority H04 Discourage new sensitive land uses, including General Fund, Community $ Ongoing/ Medium schools, parks, childcare centers, adult and senior HMGP Grants, Development Annually assisted-living facilities, and community centers, Other Grants Department from locating near identified hazardous material
facilities. Discourage or prohibit new hazardous
material facilities from locating near sensitive land
uses. (Hazard addressed: Hazardous Materials
Release)
H05 Pursue full alignment of the General Plan with General Fund, Community $$ 2028 Low policies and actions outlined in state and regional HMGP Grants, Development plans, such as the California Accidental Release Other Grants Department, Prevention (CalARP) Program. (Hazard Fire
addressed: Hazardous Materials Release)
H06 Continuously inspect businesses and other General Fund, SB Health, $ Annually Medium properties storing hazardous materials and create HMGP Grants, Community an inventory of storage locations that require Other Grants Development updates, maintenance, or renovation. (Hazard Department, addressed: Hazardous Materials Release) Fire
H07 Develop a parcel-level, GIS-based database, in General Fund, Fire, Information $$ Long Term High coordination with San Bernardino County and the HMGP Grants, Technology state, which tracks the status of hazardous Other Grants materials storage and use, prioritized by potential
threat to surrounding properties. (Hazard
addressed: Hazardous Materials Release)
H08 Obtain and introduce a cybercrime-awareness General Fund, Information $ 2027 High training program for all City employees, SHSGP Grants, Technology, specifically including malware identification and UASI Police digital hygiene. (Hazard addressed: Cybercrime)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Severe Weather(Extreme Heat, Drought, Severe Wind)
W01 Develop intradepartmental hazard teams for use General Fund, Emergency $$ Long Term Low in planning and support of public education and HMGP Grants, Management response to plan elements involving extreme California weather events. Climate
Resilience
Grants, Other
Grants
W02 Develop a public information program to assist the General Fund, Emergency $$ Long Term Low public in early detection of potential wind hazard HMGP Grants, Management, damage. California Information
Climate Technology,
Resilience Public
Grants, Other Information
Grants Officer
W03 Expand current outreach to residents and General Fund, Public $ Annually Low businesses prior to severe winds on proper tree HMGP Grants, Information maintenance and identification of potentially California Officer hazardous trees. Climate
Resilience
(Hazards addressed: Severe Wind) Grants, Other
Grants
W04 Remove or trim trees determined to be General Fund, Public Works $$ Annually Low susceptible to blowing over during a severe wind HMGP Grants, Department event. Encourage the undergrounding of existing Other Grants utilities.
(Hazards addressed: Severe Wind)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority W05 Promote passive cooling design (brise-soleil, long General Fund, Development $ Medium Low roof overhangs, locating windows away from California Services Term southern facades, etc.) in new developments Climate (Building and during the design review process. Resilience Safety) Grants, Other
(Hazards addressed: Extreme Heat) Grants
W06 Expand current outreach to residents and General Fund, Public $ Ongoing Low businesses regarding extreme heat events. HMGP Grants, Information Educate residents on the dangers of extreme heat California Officer and identify actions they can take to mitigate the Climate negative effects of extreme heat. Resilience
Grants, Other
(Hazards addressed: Extreme Heat) Grants
W07 Launch a pilot program with smart water meters to General Fund, Development $$ 2028 Low track water usage in commercial and industrial California Services properties across the City. Climate (Building and Resilience Safety), Public
(Hazards addressed: Drought) Grants, Other Works Grants
W08 Identify opportunities (grant funding, design General Fund, Development $ Long Term Medium assistance, etc.) to sponsor homeowner retrofits California Services from lawns to low-water-consuming plants. Climate (Building and Resilience Safety)
(Hazards addressed: Drought) Grants, Other
Grants
W09 Use drought-tolerant plants when installing new or General Fund, Public Works $ Ongoing Medium redesigned City-owned landscapes. Limit non- California Department drought tolerant turf to recreational fields and Climate lawns, and only in instances where no feasible Resilience drought tolerant alternatives exist. Grants, Other
Grants
(Hazards addressed: Drought)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Infrastructure Failure (Power Failure, Public Safety Power Shutoff) IF01 Maintain at least one emergency power- General Fund, Emergency $$$ 2027 High generating station in all critical facilities that the EMPG Management, City can use as an emergency public assembly Fire
area, such as the Civic Center, Community
Centers, and any other locations designated in
the future.
IF02 Update the Upland Emergency Operations Plan to General Fund, Emergency $ 2027 Medium identify backup power and communications EMPG Management, provisions for critical facilities. Fire
IF03 Install energy-efficient equipment upgrades in City General Fund, Public Works $$ 2028 Low facilities to increase the longevity of the fuel BRIC/ HMGP Department supply for backup generators. Grants, Other
Grants
IF04 Conduct a feasibility assessment of the General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium installation of solar and battery backup systems at BRIC/ HMGP Department key critical facilities within the City. Grants, Other Grants
IF05 Install and harden encased emergency backup General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium power generators at critical facilities and key BRIC/ HMGP Department infrastructure as deemed necessary. Prioritize Grants, Other installations for facilities that serve as key Grants cooling/warming centers and evacuation centers.
IF06 Install battery backup power supplies for traffic General Fund, Public Works $$$ 2028 High signals to ensure functionality in the event of BRIC/ HMGP Department power failure. Grants, Other
Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Flood(Surface Flooding, Dam and Levee Failure)
FL01 Investigate the use of permeable paving and General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low landscaped swales for new construction and BRIC/ HMGP Department replacement of City-owned hardscaped areas. Grants, Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLO2 Identify potential flood improvements that reduce General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low inundation from both storm flows and potential HMGP Grants, Department dam inundation effects. Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLO3 Keep all flood control channels clear of debris and General Fund, Public Works $ Annually Low plant detritus that could affect channel capacity HMGP Grants, Department during heavy rainfall events. Install large grilles Flood Mitigation over storm drain inlets to screen out large debris. Assistance Grants, Other
Grants
FLO4 Conduct frequent cleanings of storm drain General Fund, Public Works $ Annually Medium intakes, especially before and during the rainy HMGP Grants, Department season. Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority FLO5 Track areas where ponding frequently occurs General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low during heavy rainfall and install new drains or BRIC/ HMGP Department upgrade existing ones to reduce ponding. Grants, Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLO6 Identify all structures located in FEMA flood zones General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Low and determine the need to plot, analyze, and HMGP Grants, Department, modify FEMA flood maps. If flood map revisions Flood Mitigation Administrative are possible, work with property owners to Assistance Services determine the desire to perform this activity on Grants, Other their behalf. Grants
FLO7 Coordinate with dam owners/operators and state General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low and federal agencies to collectively identify HMGP Grants, Department, threats to the City and the region and identify Flood Mitigation ways to retrofit/strengthen the dams under their Assistance Fire control. Grants, Other
Grants
FLO8 Identify all structures located in dam or levee General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Low inundation zones. Develop evacuation procedures HMGP Grants, Department, and public information strategies to expedite Flood Mitigation Administrative evacuation of threatened areas should a dam or Assistance Services levee threaten to fail. Grants, Other
Grants
* Relative Cost Categories
$ - Less than $75,000
$$ - $75,001 to $4,999,999
$$$ - Greater than $5,000,000
Mitigation strategies identified in blue are actions from the 2016 Plan. No actions from that plan have been removed or completed and all actions have been incorporated into this update.
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National Flood Insurance Program
Upland participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), created by Congress in 1968 to provide flood insurance at subsidized rates to homeowners living in flood-prone areas.
Individual communities can participate in the NFIP, although property owners who live in nonparticipating communities with flood-prone areas cannot buy flood insurance through the program. Additionally, nonparticipating communities with mapped floodplains cannot receive federal grants or loans for development activities in flood-prone areas and cannot receive federal disaster assistance to repair flood-damaged buildings in mapped floodplains. Table 5-4 provides information about the City's NFIP participation." Continued participation in the NFIP is not a dedicated hazard mitigation action, although Upland will continue to do so and will remain in compliance with the program's requirements through continued enforcement of the City's Floodplain Management Regulations.72 The Floodplain Management Regulations function as Upland's floodplain management ordinance, which all participating communities in the NFIP must adopt. These regulations apply to land within the mapped 100-year floodplain and limit the types of development and construction activities that can occur in this area. New construction must meet several flood-resistant standards, such as being anchored to better resist damage from moving floodwaters. Other standards apply to new subdivisions, utility projects, and manufactured homes. As part of the City's commitment to complying with the requirements of the NFIP, the City will make updates and revisions as needed to the Floodplain Management Regulations. These changes may be made because of changes in best practices, shifts in flood-prone areas, or other factors that allow the City to better protect against the threat of flood events. The City will also continue to incorporate changes in the location and designations of mapped floodplains into future planning documents, including future updates to this Plan.
TABLE 5-4: FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION DATA
Initial Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM) 06/28/1974
Initial Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) 03/18/1996 NFIP Participation Date 12/23/1981
Current Effective Map Date 09/02/2016
Although participation is not a dedicated hazard mitigation action, Upland will continue to participate in NFIP and comply with the program's requirements by enforcing the City's Floodplain Management Regulations (Municipal Code Chapter 5: Floodplain Management Ordinance). Table 5-5 identifies the City's floodplain management regulations. " FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency)."Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program." https://www.fema.gov/participation-national-flood-insurance-program 72 Chapter 15.56 of the Upland Code of Ordinances https://ecode360.com/UP5026 167 Page 562 of 654
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Adoption of Minimum Floodplain Management Ordinance No. 1835. Floodplain Management Criteria and Implementation and Enforcement of Adopted in 2003 Floodplain Management Regulations
Designee to Implement NFIP Chapter 15.56.100 Designation of Floodplain Administrator
The Public Works Director, or his or her
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Implementation of Substantial Improvement/ Chapter 15.56.130: Construction Standards Substantial Damages Provisions
Note: Ordinances Hyperlinked
These regulations apply to all areas of special flood hazards, flood-related erosion hazards, and mudslide (i.e., mudflow) hazards within the city. These regulations aim to promote public health, safety, and general welfare and minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions. This chapter also includes methods of reducing flood losses, the basis for establishing flood hazard areas, development permit requirements, duties and responsibilities of the City's Floodplain Administrator, the development standards that apply in flood-prone areas and required documentation and analysis for construction within these areas. As part of the City's efforts to comply with NFIP, Upland will make updates and revisions to these regulations periodically to ensure they are most effective at minimizing the threat of harm from flood events. These updates and revisions may be promoted by changes in local demographics, land use shifts, flood regime changes such as frequency and intensity of flood events, and other factors that may warrant municipal action. The City will also continue to incorporate any changes to the locations and designations of mapped floodplains into future planning documents, including future updates to this Plan.
As of 2025, there were 23 properties in Upland insured under the NFIP, with a total insured value of approximately $7.64 million. There have been 19 claims filed for these insured properties. One property is known as a repetitive loss property, meaning that it has filed claims for flood damage at least twice. There are no severe repetitive loss properties in Upland. 168 Page 563 of 654
CHAPTER 6 -
PLAN MAINTENANCE
For this LHMP to remain effective and useful to the community of Upland, it must remain up to date.An updated version of the LHMP will continue to guide Upland's hazard mitigation activities and help keep the City eligible for state and federal hazard mitigation funding. The HMPC has structured this LHMP so individual sections can easily be updated as new information becomes available and new needs arise, helping to keep this Plan current.
This chapter discusses updating this Plan to comply with applicable state and federal requirements. This chapter also describes how the City can incorporate the mitigation actions described in Chapter 5 into existing programs and planning mechanisms and how public participation will remain an important part of Plan monitoring and future update activities.
Plan Adoption
The Upland City Council is responsible for updating this Plan as well as all future updates.
LHMPs are subject to review by FEMA to determine whether the Plan meets all applicable federal requirements and thus provides additional funding benefits to Upland. Once the Plan is consistent with FEMA's requirements, FEMA will notify the City that the Plan is Approved Pending Adoption. At this point, the City Council can formally adopt the Plan. Following adoption, the City will send a copy of the adopted Plan, including the resolution of adoption, to FEMA.
Plan Implementation
The Plan's effectiveness depends on the successful implementation of the mitigation actions.
Implementation includes integrating mitigation actions into existing City plans, policies, programs, and other implementation mechanisms. The mitigation actions in this Plan are intended to reduce the damage from hazard events, help the City secure funding, and provide a framework for hazard mitigation activities. HMPC members prioritized the hazard mitigation actions in Table 5-3 in Chapter 5. These priorities will guide the implementation of these actions through new or existing City mechanisms as resources are available. The LHMP project manager is responsible for overseeing the implementation, promotion, and maintenance of this Plan and facilitating meetings and coordinating activities related to Plan implementation and maintenance.
Coordinating Body
Implementation will be the responsibility of the individual City departments and other agencies tasked with each mitigation action, as identified in the overall mitigation strategy.
Implementation will be coordinated through the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee. A list of current Committee members is provided in Chapter 1, Table 1-1. 169 Page 564 of 654
2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland In future years, representatives from the following City departments will be included in future Planning Committee meetings:
• City Manager
• Fire
• Police
• Public Works
• Administrative Services
• Community Services
• Development Services
• Emergency Preparedness
Staff from other organizations who participated during plan preparation shall be invited to participate in future planning meetings, plus any other applicable agencies. Based on the composition of the Planning Committee during the preparation of this Plan, the other organizations that will be invited to participate may include, but not be limited to:
• American Red Cross
• Cable Airport
• California Department of Transportation
• California Highway Patrol
• Caltrans
• Neighboring Jurisdictions:
o City of Claremont
o City of Montclair
o City of Ontario
o City of Rancho Cucamonga
• San Antonio Regional Hospital
• San Bernardino County Fire District
• San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services • San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
• San Bernardino County Planning and Land Use
• San Bernardino County Public Health Department
• San Bernardino County Public Works
• San Bernardino County Transportation Authority
• Southern California Edison
• Southern California Gas
• Upland Chamber of Commerce
• Upland Unified School District
The Upland Assistant City Manager, Public Works, is the staff member responsible for coordinating the implementation of the LHMP and future meetings of the Planning Committee.
The Assistant City Manager, Public Works, may designate this role to another staff member, if necessary.
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The City's plan maintenance process will rely on the Upland Mitigation Implementation Handbook, located in Appendix E. This handbook is intended to function as a stand-alone document that gives concise and accessible guidance to staff to implement and maintain the Plan. A key component is the specific mechanisms that the City can use to integrate this plan into the other City planning mechanisms.
PLAN MONITORING AND EVALUATION
When members of the HMPC are not updating the Plan, they shall meet at least once a year to go over mitigation action implementation and evaluate the Plan's effectiveness. These meetings will include:
• A discussion of the timing of mitigation action implementation • Evaluation and determination of success for mitigation action implementation • Mitigation action prioritization revisions, if deemed necessary • Integration of mitigation actions into other planning mechanisms, as needed The first of these meetings will be held in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. To the extent possible, HMPC meetings shall be scheduled at an appropriate time in the City's annual budgeting process, which will help ensure that funding and staffing needs for mitigation actions are considered.
When the HMPC meets to evaluate the Plan, the following questions will be asked:
• What hazard events, if any, have occurred in Upland in the past year? What were the impacts of these events on the community? Were the impacts mitigated, and if so, how? • What mitigation actions have been successfully implemented? Have any mitigation actions been implemented but not successfully, and if so, why? • What mitigation actions, if any, have been scheduled for implementation but have not yet been implemented?
• What is the schedule for implementing future mitigation actions? Is this schedule reasonable? Does the schedule need to be adjusted for future implementation, and are such adjustments appropriate and feasible?
• Have any new concerns arisen, including hazard events in other communities or regions not covered by existing mitigation actions?
• Is new data available to inform the Plan's updates, including data relevant to the hazard profiles and threat assessments?
• Are there any new planning programs, funding sources, or other mechanisms to support hazard mitigation activities in Upland?
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PLAN UPDATES
The information in this Plan, including the hazard profiles, threat assessments, and mitigation actions, is based on the best available information, practices, technology, and methods available to the City and HMPC when this Plan was prepared. As factors change, including technologies, community demographics and characteristics, best practices, and hazard conditions, it is necessary to update the Plan to remain relevant.
The HMPC may decide to make interim changes to the LHMP outside the five-year cycle of formal review and Council adoption. This may include updating the scope of an existing hazard or the risk it poses, adding a new hazard or eliminating an existing one, updating the status of mitigation actions, reflecting changes in local capabilities or funding vehicles, and so on.
Changes of this nature do not trigger a new round of Cal OES and FEMA review, nor do they require City Council adoption.
Title 44, Section 201.6(d)(3) of the Code of Federal Regulations requires that LHMPs be reviewed, revised, and resubmitted for approval every five years to remain eligible for federal benefits.
UPDATE METHOD AND SCHEDULE
The update process will begin no later than four years after this Plan is adopted, allowing a year for the update process before the Plan expires. However, it is recommended that you begin the update process three years after plan adoption if the funding source for the plan will be a mitigation grant. Depending on the circumstances, the LHMP project manager or their designee may also choose to begin the update process sooner.
Some reasons for accelerating the update process may include:
• A presidential disaster declaration for Upland or an area that includes part of or the entire City.
• A hazard event that results in one or more fatalities in Upland.
The update process will add new and updated methods, demographic data, community information, hazard data and events, considerations for threat assessments, mitigation actions, and other necessary information, keeping the Plan relevant and current. The HMPC will determine the best process for updating the Plan, which should include the following steps:
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Engage the Hazard Prepare an updated plan to Conduct a public review Mitigation Planning be distributed to period of the Draft Plan Committee(with at least stakeholders and the allowing residents and one member from each interested stakeholders to City department). public provide comment.
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UPDATE ADOPTION
The Upland City Council is responsible for adopting this Plan and all future updates. As previously mentioned, adoption should occur every five years. The City shall begin the update process at least one year before expiration to ensure the plan remains active. If the City has a grant application that relies on the LHMP, an update to the plan should occur at least two years prior to expiration. Adoption shall take place after FEMA notifies the City that the Plan is Approvable Pending Adoption. Once the City Council adopts the Plan following FEMA's approval, the adopted plan shall be transmitted to FEMA.
Incorporation into Existing Planning
Mechanisms
Incorporating the mitigation strategy into existing City plans, policies, programs, and other efforts helps to promote successful implementation. This Plan works in concert with the Upland General Plan, particularly the Safety Element. The Safety Element establishes a community- wide framework for hazard mitigation and preparation activities and integrates with the goals of this Plan. The LHMP expands on the topics and issues in the Safety Element and other applicable sections of the General Plan, translating the high-level community objectives into specific mitigation actions. General Plan policies should synchronize with the mitigation actions in the LHMP in future updates to the General Plan.
In addition to the General Plan, this LHMP shall be incorporated into other City documents as applicable.
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• Mitigation actions that involve construction of new City buildings or infrastructure or major retrofits to existing structures should be reflected in updates to the Capital Improvement Program.
• Mitigation actions that improve resiliency in new construction by increasing the standards for new construction should be reflected in updates to the City's Building and Construction Regulations.
• Revisions to requirements for new construction activities specifically within floodplains should result in changes to the City's Floodplain Management Regulations. • Requirements related to seismic retrofits to existing buildings may be implemented through amendments to the City's Seismic Strengthening for Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Regulations.
• Any mitigation actions that change where different developments and land use activities can occur, how they should be sited, and how they can be constructed or operated, should be integrated as applicable into the City Zoning Code.
Appendix E provides guidance on best practices to accomplish this integration.
The 2016 LHMP was never integrated into other city documents or processes. Recognizing this, the City will take the necessary steps to ensure this integration occurs moving forward.
Continued Public Involvement
The City will continue to keep members of the public informed about the Planning Team's actions to review and update the Plan. When updating the Plan, the Planning Committee will develop a revised community engagement strategy that reflects the City's updated needs and capabilities. This strategy will include a schedule and plan for public meetings, recommendations about the appropriate use of the City website and social media accounts, and sample content for public outreach documentation. The Planning Team will also provide annual updates to City Council (and the community) about Plan implementation. Options for receiving feedback shall include a comment portal on the City's website as well as information presented to City Council.
Point of Contact
The Assistant City Manager, Public Works Department, is the primary point of contact for this Plan and for future updates. At the time of writing, the Assistant City Manager for the Upland Public Works Department is Damien Arrula, who can be contacted at (909) 291-2930 or [email protected].
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Jessica Gordon Deputy Director Public Works Department, Operations Richard Gonzales Deputy Director Public Works Department, Utilities Division
Damien Arrula Assistant City Manager City Manager's Office Marcelo Blanco Chief of Police Upland Police Department Bob Critchfield Engineering Manager Public Works Department, Engineering Division
Robert Dalquest Director Development Services Department Ed Diggs Interim Utilities Manager Public Works Department, Utilities 1 Division
Jessica Escoto Parks and Recreation Manager Community Services Department, Recreation and Community Services
Division
Loralee Farris Planning Manager Development Services Department, Planning Division
Norberto Ferreira Chief Water Treatment Operator ' Public Works Department, Water Quality Division
Tanya Garcia Management Analyst Public Works Department, Utilities Division
Richard Jeganathan IT Manager Administrative Services Department, Information Technology Division
Jason Lara Utilities Supervisor Public Works Department Tracy Montez Dispatch Supervisor Upland Police Department Christopher Morgan Building Official Development Services Department, Building and Safety Division
Stephen Parker Assistant City Manager City Management Klasha Ray Emergency Services Officer San Bernardino County of Emergency Services
Justin Salgado Emergency Services Officer San Bernardino County of Emergency Services
Richard Smiderle Operations Manager Public Works Department, Operations Division
Staci Sullivan Finance Manager Finance
Lon Teague Patrol Operation Commander Upland Police Department Cecilia Todd Deputy Director of Human Administrative Services Department, Resources and Risk Management Human Resources/Risk Management Division
Marc Warner Utilities Supervisor Public Work Department Aaron Pfannenstiel Consultant Atlas Planning Solutions Crystal Stueve Senior Planner Atlas Planning Solutions A-2
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LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN UPDATE
HMPC MEETING #1 AGENDA
I. Team Introductions
II. Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Overview
III. Project Goals and Expectations
IV. Hazard Mitigation Planning Team Roster
V. Data Needs (Critical Facilities List, vulnerable populations, recent/past hazards, GIS) VI. Community Engagement and Outreach Strategy
VII. Hazard Identification/Prioritization
VIII. Next Steps and To-Do List
Hazard Mitigation Planning Update Process October 2024 - June 2025 Community Outreach Ongoing
Administrative Draft LHMP March 2025
Public Review Draft LHMP Document April 2025
Cal OES/FEMA Review Draft Document June 2025
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HMPC MEETING #2 AGENDA
I. Introductions
II. Review of Project Goals
1. Protect against threats from natural hazards to life, injury, and property damage within the Upland Community.
2. Increase public awareness of potential hazard events.
3. Preserve critical services and functions by protecting key facilities and infrastructure for the community.
4. Protect natural systems from current and future conditions.
5. Coordinate mitigation activities among City departments, neighboring jurisdictions, and with state and federal agencies.
6. Prepare for long-term changes in hazard conditions.
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Plans and • Ordinances, Regulations
Regulations
Structural • Utility Undergrounding, Structural
Projects Retrofits
Natural Systems
Protection • Stream restoration, erosion control
Educatio • Outreach materials, websites,
Programs presentations
Preparedness and • Mutual aid agreements, equipment Response Actions purchases, notification protocols
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Social • Is the action socially acceptable to community members? • Would the action treat some individuals unfairly?
• Is there a reasonable chance of the action causing a social disruption?
Technical • Is the action likely to reduce the risk of the hazard occurring, or will it reduce the effects of the hazard?
• Will the action create new hazards or make existing hazards worse? • Is the action the most useful approach for the City to take,given the City's goals and community members?
Administrative • Does the City have the administrative capabilities to implement the action?
• Are there existing City staff who can lead and coordinate the measure's implementation, or can the City reasonably hire new staff for this role?
• Does the City have enough staff,funding,technical support, and other resources to carry out implementation?
• Are there administrative barriers to implementing the action? Political • Is the action politically acceptable to City officials and other relevant jurisdictions and political entities?
• Do community members support the action?
Legal • Does the City have the legal authority to implement and enforce the action?
• Are there potential legal barriers or consequences that could hinder or prevent the implementation of the action?
• Is there a reasonable chance that implementation of the action would expose the City to legal liabilities?
• Could the action reasonably face other legal challenges? Economic • What are the monetary costs of the action, and do the costs exceed the economic benefits?
• What are the start-up and maintenance costs of the action, including administrative costs?
• Has the funding for action implementation been secured, or is a potential funding source available?
• How will funding the action affect the City's financial capabilities? • Could the implementation of the action reasonably burden the City's economy or tax base?
• Could there reasonably be other budgetary and revenue impacts to the City?
Environmental • What are the potential environmental impacts of the action? • Will the action require environmental regulatory approvals? • Will the action comply with all applicable federal, state, regional, and local environmental regulations?
• Will the action reasonably affect any endangered, threatened, or otherwise sensitive species of concern?
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Example Cost Categories:
City specific values will be determined with the HMPC in the meeting.
$ Less than $75,000
$$ $75,001 to $4,999,999
$$$ Greater than $5,000,000
VI. Review and Discussion of Draft Mitigation Strategies VII. Next Steps
Community Outreach Ongoing
Administrative Draft LHMP March 2025
Public Review Draft LHMP Document April 2025
Cal OES/FEMA Review Draft Document June 2025
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https://www.Pico-rive ra.org/we-wa nt-feed ba ck-from-ou r-reside nts/ OUR CITY. COMMUNITY. BUSINESS SERVICES ♦] SIGN IN f REGISTER C English `� o Planning
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The City of Pico Rivera is preparing an update to its 2019 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan o Parking Enforcement (LHMP). An LHMP is a way for the City to better prepare in advance of these disasters so o Housing Services
when they happen,less damage occurs,and recovery is easier.Having an adopted LHMP can also make Pico Rivera eligible for more financial assistance from the State when disasters o Emergency occur. Management
What isirt THE LHMP? AB 602 Development Impact Fees
• A summary of the natural and human-caused hazards that pose a risk to the community. AB 2854 Sales&Use Tax • An assessment of the threat to the City and how Pico Rivera is vulnerable to future Compliance disasters. City Permits
• Policy recommendations for Pico Rivera to carry out over the next five years. City Plans&Projects Planning Commission
When will the LHMP be COMPLETED? Pre-Approved ADU Plan Private Development Projects
The project team plans to release a first draft of the Pico Rivera LHMP for public review in Spring 2025 and hope to have the plan ready for adoption in Summer 2025. Residential Programs FAQ
Haw can I get involved?
• Attend upcoming community meetings to be announced on this site. • Take the online survey and encourage your friends and family to do the same to be posted an this website.
• Review the draft LHMP and provide comments.
• Reach out to the project team lead for more ways to stay involved.
Hector Hernandez,Senior Planner,City of Pico Rivera
Email:[email protected]
Phone:(552)801-4340
To leam more about emergency management,contact the Emergency Management Division at(562)801-4332.
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Local Hazard Mitigation Plan(LHMP)
The City of Upland is preparing an update to its 2016 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan(LHMP).This plan helps to create a safer community for residents,businesses, and visitors.The LHMP allows public safety officials and city staff,elected officials,and members of the public to understand the threats from natural and human-caused hazards in our community.The plan will also recommend specific actions to proactively decrease these threats before disasters occur.This plan will also re-open a five-year eligibility window for Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA)grants to assist in funding hazard mitigation projects within the City and financial assistance from the State once formerly adopted by the City Council.
Why have an LHMP?
An LHMP will let Upland better plan for future emergencies.Usually,after a disaster occurs,communities take steps to recover from the emergency and rebuild.
An LHMP is a way for the City to better prepare in advance for these disasters so that when they occur,less damage occurs,and recovery is easier.Our community can use LHMP strategies to reduce instances of property damage,injury,and loss of life from disasters.Besides protecting public health and safety, this approach can save money.Studies estimate that every dollar spent on mitigation saves an average of four dollars on response and recovery costs.An LHMP can also help strengthen the mission of pubLic safety officers,such as police and fire department staff,providing them with clear roles and responsibilities to build a safer community.
Besides helping protect Upland,our LHMP will make the City eligible for grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA)that can further improve safety and preparedness in the community.Having an adopted LHMP can also make Upland eligible for more financial assistance from the State when disasters occur.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland What is in our LHMP?
The City of Upland LHMP includes four main sections:
• A summary of the natural and human-caused hazards that pose a risk to our community.This will include descriptions of past disaster events and the chances of these disasters occurring in the future.
• An assessment of the threat to Upland will describe how our community is vulnerable to future disasters.The plan will examine the threat to important buildings and infrastructure,such as police and fire stations,hospitals,roads,and utility lines.It will also examine the threat to community members, particularly vulnerable populations.
• A hazard mitigation strategy will lay out specific policy recommendations for Upland to carry out over the next five years.These recommendations will help reduce our community's threat from hazard events.
• A section on maintaining the plan will help ensure that our LHMP is kept up-to-date.This will make it easier for us to continue proactively protecting ourselves and keep the City eligible for additional funding.
What hazards will our LHMP help protect against?
The City anticipates addressing the following potential natural hazards within the plan:
• Seismic Hazards(Fault Rupture,Seismic Shaking)
• Flood(Surface Flooding,Dam and Levee Failure)
• Human-caused Hazards(Hazardous Materials Release,Landfill Subsidence,Transportation Incidents(Rail,Plane,Highway),Terrorism) • Infrastructure Failure(Energy Shortage,Power Outage) • Severe Weather(Extreme Heat,Drought,Severe Wind)
• Fire(Wildland,Urban Fire)
• Cyberattacks
Our LHMP will also look at how climate change may affect these hazards and may include other hazards that pose a threat to our community.
When will the LHMP be finalized?
The project team plans to release a first draft of the Upland LHMP for public review in Spring 2025.After members of the public provide comments and feedback, the City will revise the plan and send it to the California Office of Emergency Services and FEMA for review and approval.Once approved by these agencies,the Upland City Council will adopt the final LHMP.We hope to have the plan ready for adoption in Summer 2025,but it may be later depending on how Long state and federal review takes.
Get involved!
You can get involved in preparing our LHMP in different ways:
• The City will share information about our LHMP and obtain community feedback at upcoming District Community Meetings. • The City will release a draft of the completed LHMP for public review.Please review and provide comments on this document,either at in-person meetings or in writing.
• Share about past experiences with natural hazards and how our LHMP can be the most useful.Complete an anonymous survey at: https://tinyurl.com/2k9f6saj .
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I. Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Survey
Dear Community Member,
The City of Upland is preparing to update the current Hazard Mitigation Plan or HMP. Like all other communities, Upland could potentially face widespread devastation in the event of a natural disaster. While no community can completely protect itself against all potentially hazardous situations, this plan will help identify those situations, assess our current provisions, and outline strategies to reduce the vulnerability and severity of future disasters.
Your responses will inform the preparation of the plan. Thank you for your time and cooperation.
II. Hazard Awareness
1. Please indicate whether you live or work in the City of Upland. a. I live in the City of Upland.
b. I work in the City of Upland.
c. I live and work in the City of Upland.
d. Neither applies to me, but I am interested in the City's resilience.
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2. Have you been impacted by a hazard event in your current residence? a. Yes
b. No
3. If you answered yes to the previous question, please select the type of hazard event that you have been impacted by(select all that apply).
Earthquake Wildfires
Terrorism High Winds
Flood Drought
Extreme Heat Dam Failure
Landslides Other
If you selected "Other" above, please list any additional hazards that have previously impacted your neighborhood or home.
4. The following hazards could potentially impact the City. Please mark the THREE(3) hazards that are of the greatest concern to your neighborhood or home.
Earthquake Wildfires
Terrorism High Winds
Flood Drought
Extreme Heat Dam Failure
If you selected "Other" above, please list any additional hazards that have previously impacted your neighborhood or home.
5. The planning team uses various data sources to identify hazards in your community; however, some of these data sources do not provide data at a general citywide level. Are there any small-scale issues that you would like the planning team to consider, such as ponding at a specific intersection during rain?
a. I am not aware of local hazards
b. I am aware of local hazards
If you indicated "I am aware of local hazards" above, please provide as much detail as possible, including the location and type of hazard.
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6. How concerned are you that climate change may create new hazardous situations in Upland or worsen existing natural hazards?
a. Very concerned.
b. Somewhat concerned.
c. Somewhat unconcerned.
d. Not at all concerned.
e. Unsure.
7. When do you think climate change will pose a threat to your health, property, livelihood, or overall wellbeing?
a. It already is.
b. Within the next five years.
c. In five to twenty years.
d. Not for at least another twenty years.
e. Never, or not in my lifetime.
8. If you have taken any action to protect yourself against natural hazards, how confident are you that these actions will be sufficient to protect against more severe hazards that may occur in the future?
a. Very confident.
b. Somewhat confident.
c. Somewhat unconfident.
d. Not at all confident.
e. Unsure.
9. If you are a homeowner, do you have adequate homeowners' insurance to cover the hazards that could impact your home?
a. Yes, my insurance coverage should be adequate.
b. No, I don't believe my insurance coverage would be adequate for a major disaster. c. Unsure.
d. I do not have an insurance policy.
e. Not applicable; I rent my current residence.
10. If you rent your residence, do you have renters' insurance? a. Yes
b. No
c. Not applicable; I own my residence.
11. Do you have flood insurance for your home?
a. Yes
b. No
c. No, but I am interested in reviewing flood insurance options ( http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/) . d. No, I am not interested in having flood insurance.
12. Have you done anything to your home to make it less vulnerable to hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and fires?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Not applicable; I rent my residence.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland If not, do you plan to?
13. If a severe hazard event occurred today such that all services were cut off from your home(power, gas, water, sewer)and you were unable to leave or access a store for 72 hours,which of these items do you have readily available?
a. Potable water(3 gallons per person)
b. Cooking and eating utensils
c. Can opener
d. Canned / nonperishable foods (ready to
eat)
e. Gas grill/camping stove
f. Extra medications and contact lenses
(if applicable)
g. First aid kit/supplies
h. Portable AM/FM radio (solar-powered,
hand crank, or batteries)
i. Handheld 'walkie-talkie" radios (with
batteries)
j. Important family photos/documentation
in a water- and fireproof container
k. Extra clothes and shoes
I. Blanket(s)/sleeping bag(s)
m. Cash
n. Flashlight(with batteries)
o. Gasoline
p. Telephone (with batteries)
q. Pet supplies
r. Secondary source of heat
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2025 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland For more information on emergency kits, visit: https://www.ready.gov/kit What else do you have in your emergency kit?
14. Are you familiar with the special needs of your neighbors in the event of a disaster situation (special needs may include limited mobility,severe medical conditions, memory impairments)?
a. Yes
b. No
15. Are you a trained member of your Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)? a. Yes
b. No, but I would like to learn more about CERT.
c. No, I am not interested in being a trained CERT member.
For more information about CERT, please visit:
https://www.uplandca.qovicert-team
16. How can the City help you become better prepared for a disaster? (choose all that apply)
a. Provide effective emergency notifications and communication. b. Provide training and education to residents and business owners on how to reduce future damage.
c. Provide community outreach regarding emergency preparedness. d. Create awareness of special needs and vulnerable populations. e. Other(please specify)
17. Does your employer have a plan for disaster recovery in place? a. Yes
b. No
c. I don't know
18. Does your employer have a workforce communications plan to implement following a disaster, so they can contact you?
a. Yes
b. No
III. Recommendations and Future Participation
19. Would you like to be contacted when the Draft 2026 Upland Hazard Mitigation Plan is available for review?
a. Yes; please notify me using my contact information in the next question. b. No
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20. If you would like to be notified of future opportunities to participate in hazard mitigation and resiliency planning, please provide your name and e-mail address.
Please provide your mailing address if you do not have an e-mail address.
Full Name:
E-Mail Address:
Street Address:
City, State, Zip:
21. Please provide us with any additional comments/suggestions/questions regarding your risk of future hazard events.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. If you have any questions or know of other people/organizations that should be involved, please contact the City's Emergency Services Officer at [email protected] . .
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Results
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1. Please indicate whether you live or work in the City of Upland. 32 responses
• I live in the City of Upland
• I work in the City of Upland.
I live and work in the City of Upland.
� Neither applies to me,but I am
interested in the City's resiliency.
93.8%
2. Have you been impacted by a natural hazard event in your current residence? 31 responses
• Yes
• No
111.
3. If you answered yes to the previous question, please select the type of natural hazard event you have been impacted by(select all that apply).
15 Column 1
10 5
0 Earthquake Wildfires High Winds Drought Extreme Heat Other B-12
2025 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland If you selected "Other" above, please list any additional hazards that have previously impacted your neighborhood or home.
1 response
Pesticide and other biodiversity inhibiting behaviors use by neighbors and city
4.The following hazards could potentially impact the city.Please mark the top THREE(3)hazards that are of most concern to your neighborhood or home.
15 lot 2nd 3rd
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Earthquake Wildfire Terrorism High Winds Flood Drought Extreme Heat Landslides Other If you selected "Other" above, please list any additional hazards that have previously impacted your neighborhood or home.
2 responses
• Over grown, very old and not maintained Oak trees on 13th Street • Pesticides, Halloween spider webs on my hedge all year from next door neighbor, light pollution, lawns
5. The planning team uses various data sources to identify hazards in your community; however, some sources do not provide data at a general city...hat you would like the planning team to consider? 32 responses
• I am not aware of local hazards
50% • I am aware of local hazards
50%
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2025 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland If you indicated "I am aware of local hazards" above, please provide as much detail as possible, including the location and type of hazard. 16 responses
• Overgrown brush in the Colonies area around the reservoirs. Met with Councilman James Breitling and toured last weekend.
• Pot holes
• Flammable trees and landscaping next to and between houses that could cause fires to easily spread house to house
• Euclid and Foothill- draining issues during heavy rain • Water pools at West 15th and North Palomino
• Ponding on Benson which is adjacent to my home during severe rain • In the recent past,there has often been a steady stream of water flowing down the gutters, on the north side of 23rd, starting from the small drainage ditch just west of West Orange Dr N. Also,there are many places in my north Upland neighborhood where sidewalks have been lifted by tree roots, creating serious tripping hazards. I have personally tripped several times, as have several of my friends. • Euclid becomes like a river with heavy rains and water pools at various intersections. • Heavy rain causes flooding at several intersections, including Mountain and 16th.
Cleaning storm drains prior to significant rain events could mitigate some these issues. • Ponding in the street crossing of Euclid & 7th
• 13th Street between Mountain and San Antonio has very poor drainage system,the street is literally flooded in every direction on a rainy day
• Flooding along Euclid and Mountain Ave during heavy • Power lines above ground on 20th street and huge pine trees. You cannot have both • Ponding at intersection of Highland Ct. and Monterey Ave. Ponding at intersection of Sultana and 7th St. Extreme heat at 1-10 overpass on Sultana. No native plants used throughout city landscaping. Vehicular air pollution from Euclid traffic for pedestrians on Bridal Trail
• During large rain events, Euclid and Mountain avenues have significant flooding - large enough for vehicles to be swept down the street.
• Flooring on Euclid taking out a traffic lane
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6. How concerned are you that climate change may create new hazardous situations in Upland or worsen existing natural hazards?
32 responses
•Very concerned.
25% •
Somewhat concerned.
• Somewhat unconcerned.
9.4% • Not at all concerned.
41.....0111111111 • Unsure
7. When do you think climate change will pose a threat to your health,property, livelihood, or overall well-being?
32 responses
• It already is.
12.5% 9A% • Within the next five years.
9.4% ti In five to twenty years.
• Not for at least another twenty years.
• Never,or not in my lifetime.
62.5%
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8. If you have taken any action to protect yourself against natural hazards, how confident are you that these actions will be sufficient to protect aga...t more severe hazards that may occur in the future? 32 responses
•Very confident.
• Somewhat confident.
• Somewhat unconfident.
g 4% • Not at all confident.
21.9% • Unsure.
9. If you are a homeowner,do you have adequate homeowners' insurance to cover the hazards that could impact your home?
32 responses
• Yes,my insurance coverage should be
28.1% adequate.
• No,I don't believe my insurance
coverage would be adequate for a major
12.5% disaster.
Unsure.
• I do not have an insurance policy.
• Not applicable; I rent my current
59.4% residence.
10. If you rent your residence,do you have renters' insurance? 32 responses
• Yes
• No
Not applicable; I own my residence
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11. Do you have flood insurance for your home?
32 responses
• Yes,I own my home and have flood
50% insurance.
•Yes,I rent my home and have flood
insurance.
C No,but I am interested in reviewing
flood insurance options(http:ll
www.floodsmart.govlfloodsmart/) .
4/
• No, I am not interested in having flood
31.3% insurance.
12. Have you done anything to your home to make it less vulnerable to hazards such as earthquakes,floods, and fires?
32 responses
4Ik •Yes
• No
• Not applicable; I rent my residence.
56.3%
If not, do you plan to?
8 responses
• Not sure what I can do?
• Not at this time, my home is fairly secure
• Not sure what I can do other than keep my landscaping cut and a new roof I had installed • Not sure
• Not sure what to do but I would
• No
• Maybe
• Yes
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13.If a severe hazard event occurred today,such that all services were cut off from your home(power,gas,water,sewer)and you were unable to leave or access a store for 72 hours,which of these items do you have readily available? 30 Column 1
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What else do you have in your emergency kit?7 responses • My family knows where to meet.
• Port generator. RV
• Solar charger
• Generator
• Non perishable dehydrated foods, camping supplies, vegetable garden, chickens, water filter
• I don't have a kit
• Hand tools, solar charger for phone,
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14. Are you familiar with the special needs of your neighbors in the event of a disaster situation (special needs may include limited mobility, severe medical conditions,and memory impairments)? 32 responses
• Yes
56.3% • No
15. Are you a trained member of your Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)? 32 responses
• Yes
• No,but I would like to learn more about
CERT.
• No, I am not interested in attending
CERT.
31.3% 21.9%
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16. How can the City help you become better prepared for a disaster? (Choose all that apply) 32 responses
Provide effective emergency o
notifications and communication. 26(81.3 ) Provide training and education to
residents and business owners... 20(62.5 0/o) Provide community outreach
regarding emergency prepared... 19(59.4%)
Create awareness of special o
needs and vulnerable populatio... 13(40.8/o)
Other(please specify) (15.6%)
0 10 20 30
• Recently, I heard Rick Caruso say "what's predictable is preventable" I would ask you as a city. Are you taking care of the things that you need to take care of so that we don't have problems as citizens? As residents of Upland we don't know what we don't know about these things we expect you to know and have them taken care of. Do we have enough water in case of fires are the infrastructure systems in place. Even during the most minor wind event, we are not seeing an effective response from the cities in the utilities underground power is being shut off for days at a time so that Edison can protect their financial liability rather than repairing poor systems or underground and updating and this is just during minor wind events. I see overgrown brush everywhere definitely closer than the 200 foot radius recommended I see power lines going through trees that are not attended to and I don't know where you would begin to have the water supplies necessary to put out fires the likes of which we have recently seen. The survey seems to be more about what we're doing is individual citizens rather than what you are doing as our government to protect us. Which is the primary reason for governments existing,to protect it's citizens!!
• Publish information about and encourage hardening of homes through landscaping changes
• Trim or remove old and over grown trees
• Stop hazardous conditions before they start
• Improve native landscaping for more efficient water use to protect against drought and allow for more shade trees. Recognize our impact on migrating pollinators to keep CA good production healthy Teach and encourage urban homestead practices to help all residents feel more prepared and self-sufficient
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17. Does your employer have a plan for disaster recovery in place? 32 responses
• Yes
• No
• I don't know
*IF
18. Does your employer have a workforce communications plan to implement following a disaster so that they can contact you?
32 responses
• Yes
40.6% • No
59.4%
19. Would you like to be contacted when the Draft 2025 Upland Hazard Mitigation Plan is available for review?
32 responses
• Yes,please notify me using my contact
information in the next question.
31.3% • No
68.8%
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20. If you would like to be notified of future opportunities to participate in hazard mitigation and resiliency planning, please provide your name and e-mail address.
Please provide your mailing address if you do not have an e-mail address. 20 responses
21. Please provide us with any additional comments/suggestions/questions regarding your risk of future hazard events.
9 responses
• This survey seems to be pointing to us as individuals when my biggest fear is you not having your house in order as the government agency that's supposed to be protecting at citizens.
• Compliments to the crews working on the trees on Euclid in Upland! • The city should have emergency notification systems in place • I am retired, so questions about workplace readiness are N/A • Does this still apply since trump is leaving fema? How is our water? It seems like it's going down in quality
• Frank Amin
• I have taken TERT with my employer
• Power is critical to infrastructure and Upland pretends being tree heavy is a good thing until your out of power because there are large power poles and huge trees. Either bury powerlines underground or remove tree hazards.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. If you have any questions or know of other people/organizations that should be involved, please contact the City's Emergency Services Officer at [email protected]
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(to be inserted after City Council approval)
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Category Facilities Included Number in Planning Area Emergency Response Facilities Police and fire stations 4 Government Facilities City hall, city yard, municipal building 4 Medical and Care Facilities Medical office, assisted living, nursing home, home 11 health services, senior housing
Educational Facilities Schools, libraries 22 Community Gathering Facilities Recreation, senior center, youth center 13 Utility Infrastructure Wells, water treatment 17 Transportation Infrastructure Highway bridges, rail bridges 15 Total 86
The current critical facilities list was retained from the list used in the 2011 MJHMP"assets at risk".This excludes the History and Heritage Museum and the Al Natividad Center.
Currently the assets are not listed individually for security purposes, general location in provided in two maps with the plan.
This included the additions of: El Rancho Unified School District schools and Montebello School District schools, assisted living and convalescent facilities,the GRIP water recycling facility, County of Los Angeles libraries in the city,the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) station in the city, and the three Los Angeles County Fire Department(LACoFD) stations in the City.
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Implementation Handbook
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What is this Handbook?
The Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) for the City of Upland features an evaluation of the City's hazards as well as a variety of corresponding mitigation actions. These actions are intended to preserve public safety, maintain critical municipal government operations and services when hazard events emerge, and empower community members to take on hazard mitigation at an individual level. This Implementation Handbook (Handbook) is intended for use by City staff and decision-makers after the LHMP is adopted. It will:
• Give clear instructions following the adoption of the LHMP. • Simplify future updates to the LHMP.
• Assist the City in preparing grant funding applications related to hazard mitigation. • Guide annual plan review actions.
How do I use this Handbook?
This Handbook can help City staff and decision-makers in several different situations. If and when the events listed below occur, consult the respective sections of this Handbook for advice on how best to proceed:
• A disaster proclamation has been issued by the Upland City Council • A disaster proclamation has been issued by the State of California • A disaster declaration has been signed by the Federal Government • I want to apply for mitigation grant funding
• Upland is undergoing its budgeting process
• Upland is holding its annual meeting of the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee • Upland is updating the following policy and regulatory documents:
o The Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
o The Safety Element of the General Plan
o The Housing Element of the General Plan
o The Zoning Code
Who maintains this Handbook?
The Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee (HMPC) leader is responsible for maintaining this Handbook. At the time of writing, the current HMPC leader is Damien Arrula, Assistant City Manager, Public Works Department. The HMPC may delegate this responsibility to someone else should they choose.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Take action when a disaster has been
proclaimed or declared
Disasters may be proclaimed or declared by the Upland City Council, the State of California, or the federal government. Responsibilities may differ depending on who proclaims or declares the disaster. If multiple organizations proclaim or declare a disaster, consult all applicable lists.
Local emergency proclaimed by the Upland City Council
If the Upland City Council (or the Director of Emergency Services, if the City Council is not in session) proclaims a Local Emergency, take the following steps:
❑ Update Attachment 1 with information about the disaster. Include information about cumulative damage, including any damage outside of Upland. ❑ Discuss opportunities for local assistance with the representatives from the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES).
❑ If the disaster damages local infrastructure or City-owned facilities, repair or rebuild the structure to be more resilient, following applicable hazard mitigation actions. A list of actions, organized by hazards, is included in Attachment 4. ❑ Chapter 6 of the Upland LHMP states that the City should consider updating the LHMP if a disaster causes a loss of life in the community, even if there is no state disaster proclamation or federal disaster declaration that includes part or all of the city. If there is a loss of life in Upland, consider updating the LHMP. Consult the section on updating the LHMP in this Handbook for details.
Disaster proclaimed by the State of California
If the State of California proclaims a disaster for Upland, or an area that includes part or all of Upland, take the following steps:
❑ Update Attachment 1 with information about the disaster. Include information about cumulative damage, including any damage outside of Upland. ❑ Collaborate with representatives from Cal OES to assess the damage from the event. ❑ Discuss opportunities for local assistance with representatives from Cal OES. ❑ If the disaster damages local infrastructure or City-owned facilities, repair or rebuild the structure to be more resilient, following applicable hazard mitigation actions. A list of actions, organized by hazards, is included in Attachment 4. ❑ If the disaster may escalate into a federal disaster declaration, begin any necessary coordination with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
❑ Chapter 6 of the Upland LHMP states that the City should consider updating the LHMP if a disaster leads to a state disaster proclamation or federal disaster declaration that includes part or all of Upland, even if there is no loss of life. Consider updating the LHMP.
Consult the section on updating the LHMP in this Handbook for details.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Disaster declared by the Federal Government
If the federal government declares a disaster for Upland, or any area that includes part or all of Upland, take the following steps:
❑ Update Attachment 1 with information about the disaster. Include information about cumulative damage, including any damage outside of Upland. ❑ Collaborate with Cal OES and FEMA representatives to assess the damage. ❑ Determine if Upland will be eligible for public assistance funds related to the federal disaster declaration. These funds can be used to reimburse the City for response and recovery activities. If the City is eligible, work with FEMA and Cal OES representatives to enact the necessary requirements and receive funding. ❑ If the disaster damages local infrastructure or City-owned facilities, repair or rebuild the structure to be more resilient, following applicable hazard mitigation actions. A list of actions, organized by hazards, is included in Attachment 4. ❑ The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) is a FEMA program that helps fund hazard mitigation activities after a disaster event. Upland may be eligible for funding because of the federal disaster declaration, although not all activities may meet the program's requirements. If Upland is eligible, work with FEMA to apply for this funding. ❑ Chapter 6 of the Upland LHMP states that the City should consider updating the LHMP if a disaster leads to a state disaster proclamation or federal disaster declaration that includes part or all of Upland, even if there is no loss of life. Consider updating the LHMP.
Consult the section on updating the LHMP in this Handbook for details.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Apply for hazard mitigation grant funding
There are three potential grant funding programs that FEMA administers for hazard mitigation activities:
1) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)1 2) Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
3) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
BRIC and FMA programs are available to communities with an LHMP that complies with FEMA guidelines and has been adopted within the past five years. This section discusses the BRIC and FMA programs and how to apply for them.
The HGMP program is available for communities that are part of a federal disaster declaration.
The HMGP was previously discussed above, under the "Disaster declared by the Federal Government" subsection of"What do I do when a disaster has been proclaimed or declared?" Apply for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)will support states, local communities, tribes, and territories as they undertake hazard mitigation projects, reducing the risks they face from disasters and natural hazards. BRIC is a FEMA pre-disaster hazard mitigation program that replaced the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program.
The BRIC program's guiding principles are supporting communities through capability- and capacity-building, encouraging, and enabling innovation, promoting partnerships, enabling large projects, maintaining flexibility, and providing consistency.
Development projects must be identified in a hazard mitigation plan that meets FEMA guidelines and has been adopted within the past five years. When applying to this program, review the list of hazard mitigation actions in Attachment 4 to see which projects may be eligible. Planning efforts for communities that lack a valid hazard mitigation plan may be eligible for funding if the effort would create a valid hazard mitigation plan. All BRIC grant applications are processed through the State. To learn more, consult with Cal OES representatives or visit the FEMA webpage for the program. At the time of writing, this webpage is available at https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/building-resilient-infrastructure-communities .
To apply:
❑ Confirm that the program is currently accepting funding applications. Check with representatives from Cal OES or consult the Cal OES webpage on the BRIC program.
At the time of writing, this webpage is available at https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/building-resilient-infrastructure-communities . ❑ Identify the actions from the hazard mitigation strategy (see Attachment 4) that call on the City to pursue funding or list grants as a potential funding source. Confirm that the actions are consistent with the requirements of the BRIC grant. 1 The BRIC Program still exists; however, it is currently not being funded.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland ❑ Coordinate with Cal OES representatives to compile and submit materials for the grant application.
Apply for Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
The FMA grant program is a competitive, national program that awards funding for physical development projects and planning efforts that mitigate against long-term damage from flooding. The funding is only available to communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which Upland currently does. Communities must also have a valid hazard mitigation plan that meets FEMA guidelines to be eligible, and all projects must be consistent with the list of actions in the hazard mitigation strategy. When applying to this program, review the list of hazard mitigation actions in Attachment 4 to see which projects may be eligible. As with the BRIC program, applications for the FMA program must be processed through the State. To view more information, consult with Cal OES representatives or visit the FEMA webpage on the program. At the time of writing, this webpage is available at https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/floods .
To apply:
❑ Confirm that the program is currently accepting funding applications. Check with representatives from Cal OES or consult the Cal OES webpage on the FMA program.At the time of writing, this webpage is available at
https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitjgation/floods .
❑ Identify the actions from the hazard mitigation strategy (see Attachment 4) that call on the City to pursue funding or list grants as a potential funding source. Confirm that the actions are consistent with the requirements of the FMA grant. ❑ Coordinate with Cal OES representatives to compile and submit materials for the grant application.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Incorporate hazard mitigation planning into
Upland's budgeting process
Upland's budget process is an ideal opportunity to secure funding for hazard mitigation actions and to ensure that hazard mitigation efforts are incorporated into the City's fiscal priorities.
Upland currently operates on an annual budget cycle that runs from July 1st to June 30th.
During this process, City staff should take the following steps to incorporate hazard mitigation into Upland's annual budget:
❑ Include hazard mitigation activities into Upland's list of Capital Improvement Projects (CIP). Review the list of hazard mitigation actions in Attachment 4 and identify the projects that can be included in the CIP or can support efforts within the CIP. ❑ Review the risk and threat assessments in the LHMP (Chapter 3 and Chapter 4) to ensure that all items in the CIP list are planned, designed, and constructed to minimize the threat from hazard events.
❑ Identify opportunities to identify stand-alone hazard mitigation actions through the annual budget process. Include appropriate items from Attachment 4 in the budget as stand-alone line items, particularly items that the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee (Planning Team) considered a high priority.
❑ Set aside staff to conduct hazard mitigation activities, including time to participate in Planning Team meetings and research, prepare, and submit BRIC and FMA grant opportunities (consult the "I Want to Apply for Mitigation Grant Funding" section above). ❑ Ensure hazard mitigation activities are reflected in each department's priorities and earmarked time for specific goals.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Plan the annual meeting of the Upland Hazard
Mitigation Planning Committee
The hazard mitigation planning process brings together representatives from multiple City departments as well as other relevant stakeholders. It provides a forum to discuss the hazards in Upland and how to mitigate them effectively. As mentioned in Chapter 6 of the LHMP, the Planning Committee should meet at least once each year, beginning a year after the LHMP is adopted. During these meetings, the Planning Committee should discuss implementation progress and integration of hazard mitigation actions in other City documents. At these meetings, the Planning Committee can review the status of the hazard mitigation actions and discuss whether completed or in-progress actions are working as expected. These meetings also allow the Planning Committee to strategically plan for the upcoming year.
It may help the Planning Committee to meet early in the year, in advance of annual budget activities. Attachment 3 contains an example of a Planning Committee Meeting Agenda.
The annual meeting should include representatives from City departments and other organizations that originally prepared the LHMP. Representatives from other relevant organizations should also be invited. During the preparation of the current LHMP, the following individuals were part of the Planning Committee:
TABLE 1-1: UPLAND HAZARD MITIGATION PLANNING COMMITTEE (HMPC) Name Title Department
Chris Alanis Interim Public Works Director Public Works Department Damien Arrula Assistant City Manager City Manager's Office Marcelo Blanco Chief of Police Upland Police Department Bob Critchfield Principal Engineer Public Works Department, Engineering Division
Robert Dalquest Director Development Services Department Ed Diggs Interim Utilities Manager Public Works Department, Utilities Division
Jessica Escoto Parks and Recreation Manager Community Services Department, Recreation and Community Services
Division
Loralee Farris Planning Manager Development Services Department, Planning Division
Norberto Ferreira Chief Water Treatment Operator Public Works Department, Water Quality Division
Tanya Garcia Management Analyst Public Works Department Richard Jeganathan IT Manager Administrative Services Department, Information Technology Division
Jason Lara Management Analyst Public Works Department Tracy Montez Dispatch Supervisor Upland Police Department Christopher Morgan Building Official Development Services Department, Building and Safety Division
Stephen Parker Assistant City Manager City Management Klasha Ray Emergency Services Officer San Bernardino County of Emergency Services
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland TABLE 1-1: UPLAND HAZARD MITIGATION PLANNING COMMITTEE (HMPC) Name Title Department
Justin Salgado Emergency Services Officer San Bernardino County of Emergency Services
Richard Smiderle Operations Manager Public Works Department, Operations Division
Staci Sullivan Finance Manager Finance
Lon Teague Patrol Operation Commander Upland Police Department Cecilia Todd Deputy Director of Human Administrative Services Department, Resources and Risk Management Human Resources/Risk Management Division
Marc Warner Utilities Supervisor Public Work Department Aaron Pfannenstiel Consultant Atlas Planning Solutions Crystal Stueve Senior Planner Atlas Planning Solutions In advance of Planning Team meetings, consider using Attachment 1 to maintain an accurate list of recent disaster events that have occurred in and around Upland since the LHMP was adopted. At the Planning Team meeting, review the Plan Maintenance Table (Attachment 2) to identify any gaps in the LHMP or any other component of the plan that needs updating. This also allows Planning Team members the opportunity to review the actions in the hazard mitigation strategy (Attachment 4) and ensure that they are implemented as intended.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Regularly maintain Upland policy and
regulatory documentation
If Upland is updating the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP), the Safety Element or Housing Element of the General Plan, or the Zoning Code, consult the following applicable section.
Maintenance of the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
All LHMPs should be updated every five years. This helps keep the plan up to date and ensures that it reflects the most recent guidance, requirements, science, and best practices.An updated LHMP also helps keep Upland eligible for hazard mitigation grants that require a valid, recent LHMP (see "I Want to Apply for Mitigation Grant Funding"), along with an increased amount of post-disaster recovery funds.
The update process for the LHMP takes approximately one year. To ensure that a new LHMP comes into effect before the previous one expires, the update process should begin no later than four years after the plan is adopted. Updates may occur sooner at the City's discretion.
Potential reasons for updating the LHMP sooner may include a state disaster proclamation or federal disaster declaration that covers part or all of Upland, or if a disaster leads to a loss of life in Upland (see the"What to Do When a Disaster Has Been Proclaimed or Declared" section), as discussed in Chapter 6 of the LHMP.
Take the following steps to update the LHMP:
Assemble the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee
❑ Convene a Planning Team meeting no later than four years after the LHMP is adopted.
Invite the regular Planning Team members, along with representatives from other organizations that may have a role to play in the update process. ❑ Review the current status of mitigation actions, including if there are any that are not being implemented as planned or are not working as expected. Determine if there have been any changes in hazard events, regulations, best practices, or other items that should be incorporated into an updated LHMP.
❑ Decide if there is a need for a technical consultant to assist with the LHMP update and conduct consultant selection activities if needed. If a consultant is desired, the selection process should begin a few months before the update begins. ❑ Create and implement a community engagement strategy based on the strategy prepared for the existing LHMP. Describe in-person and online engagement strategies and materials, including ideas for meetings and workshops, draft community surveys, content for websites and press releases, and other materials that may be useful.
Update the risk and threat assessments
❑ Review and update the risk assessment to reflect the most recent conditions in Upland.
Consider recent hazard events, new science associated with hazards and climate change, new development and land use patterns, and other recent changes in local conditions.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland ❑ Evaluate the status of all key facilities. Update this list if new facilities have been constructed or if existing facilities have been decommissioned. Re-assess the threat to key facilities.
❑ Review the demographics of community residents and update the threat assessment for vulnerable populations and other community members.
❑ Assess any changes to the threat to all other community assets, including key services, other facilities, and economic drivers.
Update the mitigation actions
❑ Update the existing hazard mitigation actions to reflect actions in progress. Remove actions that have been completed or revise them to increase their effectiveness. Revise actions that have been abandoned or delayed by making them more feasible or remove them from the list of mitigation actions if they are no longer appropriate for Upland. ❑ Develop mitigation actions to improve the status of hazard mitigation activities in Upland by addressing any issues not covered by the existing LHMP. ❑ The ability to expand current mitigation capabilities will generally be reliant upon the budgeting allocated for each department/program for that fiscal year. The level at which these programs may or may not be expanded upon, will be dependent upon the amount of funding received. FEMA has released a series of guides over the past few years which highlight some of the ways in which jurisdictions can expand mitigation. Some strategies for increasing current mitigation capabilities may include:
o City should actively identify, adopt, and enforce the most current set of development codes and standards available. Strongly encouraging new development to be constructed to higher standards than currently required, increasing resilience within the community.
o Engaging parts of the community that may not be actively involved in mitigation efforts.
o Expanding the number and types of organizations involved in mitigation planning and implementation, increasing both efficiency and bandwidth. o Fostering new relationships to bring underrepresented populations and partners to the hazard mitigation planning process.
o During the annual LHMP review, the HMPC should look for opportunities to fund and expand/enhance the effectiveness of current mitigation actions. o During annual budgeting processes, the City should identify new funding sources (bonds, grants, assessment districts, etc.) that can be used to support existing capabilities enhancements.
❑ Ensure that the feedback from the community engagement activities is reflected in the new and updated mitigation actions.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Review and adopt the updated plan
❑ Review the other chapters and appendices of the LHMP to reflect any changes made through the update process.
❑ Release the updated plan to the Planning Team members and revise the plan to reflect any comments by Planning Team members.
❑ Distribute the updated Plan to any appropriate external agencies not included in the Planning Team and revise the plan as appropriate in response to any comments. ❑ Release the updated plan publicly for review and make revisions to the plan to reflect public comments.
❑ Submit the plan to the Upland City Council for adoption. ❑ Submit the plan to Cal OES and FEMA for approval and make any necessary revisions.
Maintenance of the Safety Element of the General Plan
The Safety Element is a required component of Upland's General Plan. It can be updated as a stand-alone activity or as part of a more comprehensive process to update multiple sections or all of the General Plan. The Safety Element does not need to be updated on any set schedule, but updates should be frequent enough for the element to remain current and applicable to the community.
Local communities can incorporate their LHMP into their Safety Element as allowed under Section 65302.6 of the California Government Code, as long as the LHMP meets minimum federal guidelines. This allows communities to be eligible for an increased share of post-disaster relief funding from the State if a hazard situation occurs, as per Section 8685.9 of the California Government Code.
Take the following steps to incorporate the LHMP into the Safety Element:
Incorporate new requirements into the Safety Element and ensure that the LHMP and Safety Element are consistent
❑ Review the requirements for Safety Elements in Section 65302(g) of the California Government Code and for LHMPs in Section 65302.6. Ensure that both documents meet all state requirements.
❑ Ensure that the information in both plans does not contradict each other and that any inconsistencies are corrected to use the most accurate and appropriate information. This information should include a community description, a risk assessment, and a threat assessment.
❑ Ensure that the policies in the Safety Element support the LHMP and provide a planning framework for specific hazard mitigation actions.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Maintenance of the Housing Element of the General Plan
The Housing Element is a required component of Upland's General Plan. Section 65583 of the California Government Code requires a Housing Element to analyze and plan for new residential growth in a community, including residential growth for households with an annual income below the area median. Like an LHMP, state regulations require the Housing Elements to be updated regularly to remain current and valid.
The Housing Element is not required to contain any information or policies related to hazards, although it may include policies that address retrofitting homes to improve resiliency. However, state law links the regular schedule of Housing Element updates to mandatory revisions to other General Plan elements. For example, Section 65302(g)(2) of the California Government Code requires that communities that update their Housing Element on or after January 1, 2009, also update their Safety Element to include specific information and policies related to flood protection. As the LHMP is incorporated into the Safety Element, updates to the Housing Element may indirectly trigger updates to the LHMP.
To update the LHMP concurrent with updates to the Housing Element, take the following steps:
Ensure that the LHMP meets any new requirements for the Safety Element that may be triggered by a Housing Element update
❑ Section 65302(g) of the California Government Code lists several requirements for the Safety Element of the General Plan. Some of these requirements are triggered by updates to the Housing Element. Check to see if there are any new requirements of this nature. Note that the requirement is linked to the new Housing Element's adoption date, not the date the update process begins.
❑ Because the LHMP is incorporated into the Safety Element, any amendments or revisions to the Safety Element triggered by the Housing Element update may be made directly in the LHMP. Requirements triggered by the Housing Element are unlikely to require a full rewrite of the LHMP, but the process should fully involve the Planning Team and include appropriate community engagement.
❑ Adopt the updated LHMP and incorporate it into the Safety Element. If necessary, amend the Safety Element to ensure the two documents are consistent (review the "Incorporate New Requirements Into the Safety Element, and Ensure that the LHMP is Consistent with the Safety Element" subsection above).
Maintenance of the Upland Floodplain Management Ordinance Upland's Floodplain Management Ordinance contains a set of standards that guide land uses and development in the community. These standards include where different types of buildings and land use activities may be located, how these structures must be built, and how they must be operated or maintained. This ordinance includes requirements that structures (particularly new structures or those undergoing substantial renovations) incorporate hazard-resistant features, be located outside the most hazard-prone areas, or take other steps to reduce hazard vulnerability.
All communities in California are required to adopt the minimum state Building Standard Code (BSC), which includes some hazard mitigation requirements for new or significantly renovated structures. The BSC is generally updated every three years, with supplemental code updates halfway into each update cycle. Ordinance 1427 "Model Floodplain Management Ordinance for D12 Page 620 of 654
2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland Special Flood Hazards" contains building regulations and incorporates the BSC. Other sections of the Code adopt additional standards as desired by the City that adapts the BSC to Upland's local context.
As a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Upland is required to incorporate Floodplain Management Requirements in its Zoning Code, which is contained within this ordinance. These regulations establish standards for developing and operating facilities within mapped flood-prone areas. Other sections of the Upland Municipal Code may include additional standards related to hazard mitigation activities.
With the exception of the Floodplain Management Regulations and the minimum standards in the BSC, Upland is not required to incorporate hazard-related requirements in the Municipal Code. However, the Municipal Code is an effective tool for implementing hazard mitigation measures related to the siting, construction, and operation of new buildings and other structures. Substantial updates to the Municipal Code, including the Buildings and Construction and Zoning Code sections, should be done in a way that is consistent with the LHMP.
Include hazard-related requirements in applicable sections of the Upland Code of Ordinances
❑ If the BSC is being updated, evaluate the hazard-related requirements of all sections in the new BSC. Identify any areas where it may be feasible to add or revise standards to help reduce the threat from hazard events. Ensure that these standards are consistent with the LHMP. Consider whether standards should be applied to all structures, to specific types of structures, or to structures in a limited area (such as a flood plain). ❑ If the Zoning Code is being updated, ensure that all requirements do not expose community members or community assets to an excessive risk of harm. Where feasible, use the requirements to strengthen community resiliency to hazard events. Ensure that these standards are consistent with the LHMP. Consider possible standards such as overlay zones that strengthen zoning requirements in hazard-prone areas, landscaping, and grading requirements that buffer development from hazards, siting, and design standards that make structures more resilient, and other strategies as appropriate.
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland ATTACHMENT 1 : DISASTER INFORMATION TABLE
Use this table to fill out the information about any disaster events that have occurred in Upland or nearby and have affected the community. Include the date and location of the disaster event, the damages associated with the event, and any information about disaster proclamations or declarations resulting from the event.
DISASTER INFORMATION
Date Location Damages* Declaration Detailst * Includes number and type of injuries, number of deaths, and cost of physical damage t If the disaster was proclaimed or declared by the local, state, and/or federal government D14 Page 622 of 654
2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland ATTACHMENT 2: PLAIN MAINTENANCE TABLE
Use this table when reviewing the LHMP as part of the Planning Team's annual activities. For each section of the LHMP, note if any changes should be made to make the plan more effective for the community. This includes noting if anything in the LHMP is incorrect or if any important information is missing. Make revisions consistent with these notes as part of the next update to the LHMP.
PLAN MAINTENANCE
Is Anything Is Anything Should Any Other
Section Incorrect? Missing? Changes Be Made? Multiple sections or
throughout
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Community
Profile
Chapter 3: Risk
Assessment
Chapter 4: Threat
Assessment
Chapter 5: Mitigation
Strategy
Chapter 6: Plan
Maintenance
Appendices
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland ATTACHMENT 3: SAMPLE AGENDA AND TOPICS FOR THE
HAZARD MITIGATION PLANNING COMMITTEE
This attachment includes a sample agenda and discussion topics for the annual meeting of the Planning Team. Meetings do not have to follow this order or structure, but the items included in this attachment should be addressed as part of the annual meeting. During the update process for the LHMP, it is likely that the Planning Team will meet more frequently. The meetings of the Planning Team during the update process will involve different discussion topics.
ITEM 1. RECENT HAZARD EVENTS
1.1 What hazard events have occurred this past year in Upland or nearby in a way that affected the community?
• Identify events that caused loss of life or significant injury to Upland community members, significant property damage in Upland, or widespread disruption to Upland.
• More minor events should also be identified if there is a need for a community response to mitigate against future such events.
1.2 What are the basic facts and details behind any such hazard events? • Consider the size and location of the affected area, any measurements of severity, any injuries and deaths, the cost of any damage, the number of people displaced or otherwise impacted, and other relevant summary information. • Ensure that these facts and details are clearly recorded for future plan updates, including using the Disaster Information Table (Attachment 1).
ITEM 2. MITIGATION ACTION ACTIVITIES
2.1 What mitigation actions have been fully implemented?Are they working as expected, or do they need to be revised?
2.2 What mitigation actions have started to be implemented since the Planning Team last met? Is the implementation of these actions proceeding as expected, or are there any barriers or delays? If there are barriers or delays, how can they be removed?
2.3 What mitigation actions are scheduled to begin implementation in the next year?Are there any factors that could delay implementation or weaken the effectiveness of the actions? How can these factors be addressed?
2.4 What resources are needed to support planned, in-process, or ongoing mitigation actions? Does the City have access to these resources? If not, how can the City obtain access to these resources?
ITEM 3. INFORMATION SHARING
3.1 Is the City communicating with all appropriate local jurisdictions, including neighboring communities, San Bernardino County, and special districts?This should include information on district-specific hazard situations, mitigation actions, and other relevant information.
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3.2 Is the City communicating with the appropriate state and federal agencies? Is the City receiving information about new regulations, best practices, and data related to hazard mitigation activities?
3.3 Are there opportunities for the City to improve coordination with local, state, and federal jurisdictions and agencies?
ITEM 4. BUDGETARY PLANNING
4.1 What are the financial needs for Upland to support the implementation of planned and in-process mitigation actions, including ongoing items? Is there sufficient funding for all measures in the LHMP that are planned for the next year, including in-process and ongoing items? If sufficient funding is unavailable, how can the City obtain these funds?
4.2 If it is not feasible for the City to support all planned, in-process, or ongoing mitigation actions, which ones should be prioritized?
4.3 Are there hazard-related activities not included in the LHMP that should be budgeted for? Can the City obtain the necessary funding for these activities? ITEM 5. STRATEGIC PLANNING
5.1 Which grants are available for hazard mitigation activities, and which activities are best positioned to secure funding?
5.2 How should the agencies and other organizations represented on the Planning Team coordinate to maximize the chances of receiving funding?
5.3 Are there any scheduled or anticipated updates to other City documents that could relate to hazard mitigation activities? How can the Planning Team share information with staff and any technical consultants responsible for these updates and ensure that the updates will enhance community resiliency?
5.4 What capital projects are scheduled or anticipated?Are these capital projects being designed and built to be resistant to hazard events?Are there opportunities for these projects to support hazard mitigation activities?
5.5 How can Planning Team members coordinate efforts with those responsible for capital projects to take advantage of economies of scale that will make implementing hazard mitigation activities easier?
5.6 Has it been four years since the adoption of the LHMP? If so, lay out a timeline for plan update activities, including additional meetings of the Planning Team. Identify if a technical consultant is needed and begin the contracting process.
5.7 Are there any other opportunities for Planning Team members and the organizations they represent to coordinate efforts?
ITEM 6. NEW BUSINESS
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ATTACHMENT 4: HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGY
TABLE 5-3: MITIGATION ACTIONS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
r r r r r
Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Emergency Preparedness Activities
P01 Conduct regular emergency preparedness drills and General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Medium training exercises for City staff. EMPG Management, Fire
P02 Expand participation in the Upland Community General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Low Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. EMPG Management, Fire
P03 Verify that community evacuation plans include General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Medium provisions for community members who don't have EMPG Management, access to private vehicles or are otherwise unable to Fire drive.
PO4 Continue to provide effective emergency notifications General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Medium through multiple media formats, in languages EMPG Management, appropriate for the community, about pending, Fire imminent, or ongoing emergency events. Plan to
make information accessible to people with access
and functional needs.
P05 Continuously update response procedures for first General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Low responder departments to properly address new EMPG Management, hazard events as they emerge. Fire
P06 Increase the number of City staff members who have General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Medium CalOES Safety Assessment Program (SAP) EMPG Management, credentials. Fire, Building and
Safety Division,
Community
Development
Department
P07 Establish or update agreements with local schools so General Fund, Emergency Ongoing Medium that school facilities can function as evacuation sites EMPG Management, during major emergencies. Fire
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority Multiple Hazards
MH01 Install digital signage in key locations to aid in public General Fund, Emergency $ 2027 Low outreach and information dissemination during EMPG Management, emergency events. Fire, Public
Works
Department
MH02 Amend Municipal Code Title 17, Part 3, General Fund Emergency $ 2026 Low §17.15.220.H(3) to allow emergency-related public Management service messages to constitute up to 50% of
messages displayed during a one-hour period on all
permitted electronic changeable-copy signs during a
proclaimed emergency.
MH03 Conduct routine updates to Facility Conditions General Fund, Building and $$ Annually Low Assessments for City-owned infrastructure and other BRIC/ HMGP Safety Division utilities and coordinate with other agencies to ensure Grants, Other inspections of other important infrastructure. Grants
(Hazards addressed: All)
MH04 Collaborate closely with community groups to General Fund, Community $ Annually Low increase awareness of hazard events and resiliency BRIC/ HMGP Development opportunities among socially vulnerable community Grants, Other Department, members, including those experiencing Grants Community homelessness. (Hazards addressed: All) Services
Department
MH05 Closely monitor changes in the boundaries of General Fund, Community $ Annually Low mapped hazard areas resulting from land use BRIC/ HMGP Development changes or climate change and adopt new mitigation Grants, Other Department actions or revise existing ones to ensure continued Grants resiliency. (Hazards addressed: All)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority MH06 Integrate policy direction and other information from General Fund, All Departments $ Following All Medium this Plan into other City documents, including the BRIC/ HMGP Plan Updates General Plan, Emergency Operations Plan, and Grants, Other Capital Improvements Program. (Hazards addressed: Grants All)
MH07 Monitor funding sources for hazard mitigation General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low activities. (Hazards addressed: All) BRIC/ HMGP
Grants, Other
Grants
MH08 Integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation General Fund, All Departments $ Following All Low information and analysis into future LHMP updates BRIC/ HMGP Plan Updates and other City plans, where practicable. (Hazards Grants, Other addressed: All) Grants
MH09 Update the City's Master Plans periodically (in General Fund, Public Works $$ Following Medium conjunction with the LHMP and CIP) to incorporate BRIC/ HMGP Department, LHMP/CIP new data/ mapping and/or address emerging issues. Grants, Other Community Updates (Hazards addressed: All) Grants Development
Department
MH10 Create an inventory of all senior centers, mobile General Fund, Fire, Community $ Annually Medium home parks (especially those located in the BRIC/ HMGP Services VHFHSZ), and other vulnerable populations to ensure Grants, Other Department that this population group is accounted for in Grants emergency scenarios where evacuation is required.
(Hazards addressed: All)
Seismic Hazards (Fault Rupture, Seismic Shaking)
EQ01 Develop projects and programs to install automatic HMGP, HUD Development $ Long Term Low gas shut-off valves in residential, commercial, and Services public buildings. (Building and
Safety), Public
Works
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority EQ02 Conduct an educational campaign to incentivize and General Fund, Fire, Community $ Long Term Low promote medium-scale seismic retrofits, such as EMPG, HMGP Development window films to minimize shattering, rooftop-mounted Grants, California Department equipment anchors, masonry chimney bracing, and Earthquake other preventative measures to reduce damage to Authority Grants, private buildings. Other Grants
EQ03 Develop a small project-based retrofit program to General Fund, Fire $ Long Term Low assist homeowners with simple earthquake mitigation BRIC/ HMGP activities (i.e., water heater straps, furniture Grants, California anchoring, gas shut-off tools, and other emergency Earthquake supplies) to reduce strain on City resources during an Authority Grants, event. Other Grants
EQ04 Develop and sponsor projects and programs to brace General Fund, Building and 2027 Medium new or relocated mobile homes to resist earthquakes BRIC/ HMGP Safety Division Grants, California
Earthquake
Authority Grants
EQ05 Conduct a seismic analysis of all City-owned key General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Medium facilities and retrofit vulnerable facilities. BRIC/ HMGP Department Grants, California
Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ06 Require periodic inspection by the Office of Building General Fund, Building and $ 2027 Low and Safety of all critical, essential, and high- EMPG, California Safety Division occupancy buildings to identify potential hazards in Earthquake the event of a major earthquake. When hazards are Authority Grants, identified, require mitigation by the owner. Other Grants D21 Page 629 of 654
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Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority EQ07 To the extent feasible, construct all new City-owned General Fund, Public Works $$$ 2028 Low facilities to remain operational in the event of a major BRIC/ HMGP Department earthquake. Grants, California
Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ08 Retrofit key critical facilities with seismically rated General Fund, Public Works $$ 2028 Low window film treatments that prevent glass windows BRIC/ HMGP Department from shattering during a strong seismic event. Grants, California Earthquake
Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ09 Improve local understanding of the threat of a major General Fund, Building and $ 2028 Low earthquake by conducting a citywide assessment BRIC/ HMGP Safety Division modeling potential losses due to destroyed and Grants, California damaged structures, and interruptions to key Earthquake services. Authority Grants,
Other Grants
EQ10 Analyze the City's building and housing stock to General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium create an inventory of seismically vulnerable BRIC/ HMGP Department, buildings (unreinforced masonry, soft-story Grants, California Community construction, non-ductile concrete buildings)within Earthquake Development the city and conduct an educational program Authority Grants, Department providing information on how to begin the process of Other Grants seismically retrofitting these buildings.
Fire (Wildiand Fire, Wildland/Urban Interface Fire)
F01 Develop and sponsor an enhanced public education General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low program based on targeted needs that encourages BRIC/ HMGP the public to take responsibility for wildfire protection. Grants, California Climate Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F02 Develop and sponsor a defensible space Cal Fire Grants, Fire $ Long Term Low management program to support CA Public Resource Other Grants Code § 4291.
F03 Require development applicants in areas of identified General Fund Community $ Long Term Low fire risk to prepare a site-specific fire protection plan. Development Department
F04 Require applicants to fund expansion of local fire General Fund Development $ Ongoing Low protection services by payment of appropriate impact Services fees.
F05 Continue to disseminate an informational brochure on General Fund, Building and $ Ongoing Low design and construction standards required in the HMGP Grants, Safety Division Fire Hazard Overlay through the Division of Building California Climate and Safety. Resilience Grants,
Cal Fire Grants,
Other Grants
F06 Promote the proper maintenance and separation of General Fund, Fire, Public $ Annually Low power lines and efficient response to fallen power HMGP Grants, Information lines, particularly in the WUI and VHFHSZs. California Climate Officer Resilience Grants,
Cal Fire Grants,
Other Grants
F07 Identify funding for existing non-conforming retrofits General Fund, Fire $$ Annually Medium in fire-prone areas to use non-combustible building BRIC/ HMGP materials such as masonry, brick, stucco, concrete, Grants, California steel, or others as appropriate. Establish defensible Climate Resilience space zones around homes in these areas to reduce Grants, Cal Fire fire vulnerability. Grants, Other
Grants
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F08 Routinely participate in regional areas focused on General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low wildfire preparedness and investigate the feasibility of HMGP Grants, developing additional defensible space and home California Climate hardening guidance for existing structures. Resilience Grants, Cal Fire Grants,
Other Grants
F09 Create a rapid response plan from among Upland's General Fund, Fire $ 2027 Low and surrounding counties' first responders to secure BRIC/ HMGP hospital, nursing, and assisted-living facilities, Grants, California especially those located within fire hazard severity Climate Resilience zones. Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F10 Clear dead vegetation and invasive plants in flood General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low control facility footprints, trails, parks, and open HMGP Grants, spaces, especially during and after a drought California Climate episode. Resilience Grants,
Cal Fire Grants,
Other Grants
F11 Coordinate with surrounding jurisdictions on home General Fund, Fire $ Annually Low hardening and vegetation management assessments BRIC/ HMGP to assist residents in understanding and addressing Grants, California wildfire risk. Climate Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F12 Conduct regular fuel modification projects and clear General Fund, Fire, Public $$ Annually Low vegetation to reduce fire hazard risks, such as BRIC/ HMGP Works removal of dead vegetation and invasive plants in Grants, California Department parks, open spaces, and right-of-way embankments Climate Resilience and creating larger buffers within the wildland-urban Grants, Cal Fire interface. Grants, Other
Grants
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Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority F13 Create a fire-adapted landscape program to assist General Fund, Fire, Community $$ 2027 Low existing property owners with retrofits. BRIC/ HMGP Development Grants, California Department
Climate Resilience
Grants, Cal Fire
Grants, Other
Grants
F14 Add emergency alert and warning signage along the General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Low hazard-prone areas in the VHFHSZ to provide critical EMPG, BRIC/ Department information and evacuation instruction during fire HMGP Grants, Cal emergencies. Fire Grants, Other
Grants
Human-Caused Hazards (Hazardous Materials Release, Landfill Subsidence, Transportation Incidents, Cybercrime Incidents, Mass Casualty/Fatality Incidents) H01 Conduct active shooter training and exercises for City General Fund, Police $ Annually Medium staff, residents, and businesses. (Hazard addressed: SHSGP Grants, Department, Fire MCl/MFI) UASI, Other
Grants
H02 Retrofit critical facilities, administration buildings, and General Fund, Police $$$ 2028 High other city-owned buildings deemed important, along SHSGP Grants, Department, with CPTED design elements and building materials. UASI, Other Public Works (Hazard addressed: MCl/MFI) ' Grants
H03 Coordinate and enhance datasets for schools, General Fund, Police $ 2027 Low medical facilities, senior assisted-living facilities, and SHSGP Grants, Department, Fire other critical facilities with the school district and UASI, Other other key entities within the City to better respond to Grants mass-casualty incidents. (Hazard addressed:
MCl/MFI)
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority H04 Discourage new sensitive land uses, including General Fund, Community $ Ongoing/ Medium schools, parks, childcare centers, adult and senior HMGP Grants, Development Annually assisted-living facilities, and community centers, from Other Grants Department locating near identified hazardous material facilities.
Discourage or prohibit new hazardous material
facilities from locating near sensitive land uses.
(Hazard addressed: Hazardous Materials Release)
H05 Pursue full alignment of the General Plan with General Fund, Community $$ 2028 Low policies and actions outlined in state and regional HMGP Grants, Development plans, such as the California Accidental Release Other Grants Department, Fire Prevention (CalARP) Program. (Hazard addressed:
Hazardous Materials Release)
H06 Continuously inspect businesses and other properties General Fund, SB Health, $ Annually Medium storing hazardous materials and create an inventory HMGP Grants, Community of storage locations that require updates, Other Grants Development maintenance, or renovation. (Hazard addressed: Department, Fire Hazardous Materials Release)
H07 Develop a parcel-level, GIS-based database, in General Fund, Fire, Information $$ Long Term High coordination with San Bernardino County and the HMGP Grants, Technology state, which tracks the status of hazardous materials Other Grants storage and use, prioritized by potential threat to
surrounding properties. (Hazard addressed:
Hazardous Materials Release)
H08 Obtain and introduce a cybercrime-awareness General Fund, Information $ 2027 High training program for all City employees, specifically SHSGP Grants, Technology, including malware identification and digital hygiene. UASI Police (Hazard addressed: Cybercrime)
Severe Weather(Extreme Heat, Drought, Severe Wind)
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland 111111 TABLE 5-3: MITIGATION ACTIONS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority W01 Develop intradepartmental hazard teams for use in General Fund, Emergency $$ Long Term Low planning and support of public education and HMGP Grants, Management response to plan elements involving extreme weather California Climate events. Resilience Grants,
Other Grants
W02 Develop a public information program to assist the General Fund, Emergency $$ Long Term Low public in early detection of potential wind hazard HMGP Grants, Management, damage. California Climate Information
Resilience Grants, Technology,
Other Grants Public
Information
Officer
W03 Expand current outreach to residents and businesses General Fund, Public $ Annually Low prior to severe winds on proper tree maintenance and HMGP Grants, Information identification of potentially hazardous trees. California Climate Officer Resilience Grants,
(Hazards addressed: Severe Wind) Other Grants
W04 Remove or trim trees determined to be susceptible to General Fund, Public Works $$ Annually Low blowing over during a severe wind event. Encourage HMGP Grants, Department the undergrounding of existing utilities. Other Grants (Hazards addressed: Severe Wind)
W05 Promote passive cooling design (brise-soleil, long General Fund, Development $ Medium Term Low roof overhangs, locating windows away from southern California Climate Services facades, etc.) in new developments during the design Resilience Grants, (Building and review process. Other Grants Safety)
(Hazards addressed: Extreme Heat)
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland TABLE 5-3: MITIGATION ACTIONS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority W06 Expand current outreach to residents and businesses General Fund, Public $ Ongoing Low regarding extreme heat events. Educate residents on HMGP Grants, Information the dangers of extreme heat and identify actions they California Climate Officer can take to mitigate the negative effects of extreme Resilience Grants, heat. Other Grants
(Hazards addressed: Extreme Heat)
W07 Launch a pilot program with smart water meters to General Fund, Development $$ 2028 Low track water usage in commercial and industrial California Climate Services properties across the City. Resilience Grants, (Building and Other Grants Safety), Public
(Hazards addressed: Drought) Works
W08 Identify opportunities (grant funding, design General Fund, Development $ Long Term Medium assistance, etc.) to sponsor homeowner retrofits from California Climate Services lawns to low-water-consuming plants. Resilience Grants, (Building and Other Grants Safety)
(Hazards addressed: Drought)
W09 Use drought-tolerant plants when installing new or General Fund, Public Works $ Ongoing Medium redesigned City-owned landscapes. Limit non- California Climate Department drought tolerant turf to recreational fields and lawns, Resilience Grants, and only in instances where no feasible drought Other Grants tolerant alternatives exist.
(Hazards addressed: Drought)
Infrastructure Failure (Power Failure, Public Safety Power Shutoff) IF01 Maintain at least one emergency power-generating General Fund, Emergency $$$ 2027 High station in all critical facilities that the City can use as EMPG Management, an emergency public assembly area, such as the Fire Civic Center, Community Centers, and any other
locations designated in the future.
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Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority IF02 Update the Upland Emergency Operations Plan to General Fund, Emergency $ 2027 Medium identify backup power and communications EMPG Management, provisions for critical facilities. Fire
IF03 Install energy-efficient equipment upgrades in City General Fund, Public Works $$ 2028 Low facilities to increase the longevity of the fuel supply BRIC/ HMGP Department for backup generators. Grants, Other
Grants
IF04 Conduct a feasibility assessment of the installation of General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium solar and battery backup systems at key critical BRIC/ HMGP Department facilities within the City. Grants, Other
Grants
IF05 Install and harden encased emergency backup power General Fund, Public Works $$ 2027 Medium generators at critical facilities and key infrastructure BRIC/ HMGP Department as deemed necessary. Prioritize installations for Grants, Other facilities that serve as key cooling/warming centers Grants and evacuation centers.
IF06 Install battery backup power supplies for traffic General Fund, Public Works $$$ 2028 High signals to ensure functionality in the event of power BRIC/ HMGP Department failure. Grants, Other
Grants
Flood(Surface Flooding, Dam and Levee Failure)
FL01 Investigate the use of permeable paving and General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low landscaped swales for new construction and BRIC/ HMGP Department replacement of City-owned hardscaped areas. Grants, Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland lIllr TABLE 5-3: MITIGATION ACTIONS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority FLO2 Identify potential flood improvements that reduce General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low inundation from both storm flows and potential dam HMGP Grants, 1 Department inundation effects. Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLO3 Keep all flood control channels clear of debris and General Fund, Public Works $ Annually Low plant detritus that could affect channel capacity HMGP Grants, Department during heavy rainfall events. Install large grilles over Flood Mitigation storm drain inlets to screen out large debris. Assistance Grants, Other
Grants
FLO4 Conduct frequent cleanings of storm drain intakes, General Fund, 1 Public Works $ Annually Medium especially before and during the rainy season. HMGP Grants, Department Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLO5 Track areas where ponding frequently occurs during General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low heavy rainfall and install new drains or upgrade BRIC/ HMGP Department existing ones to reduce ponding. Grants, Flood Mitigation
Assistance
Grants, Other
Grants
FLOG Identify all structures located in FEMA flood zones General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Low and determine the need to plot, analyze, and modify HMGP Grants, Department, FEMA flood maps. If flood map revisions are Flood Mitigation Administrative possible, work with property owners to determine the Assistance Services desire to perform this activity on their behalf. Grants, Other Grants
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2026 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan City of Upland lIllr TABLE 5-3: MITIGATION ACTIONS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Potential Responsible Relative
Action # Mitigation Action Item Funding Source Agency Cost Time Frame Priority FLO7 Coordinate with dam owners/operators and state and General Fund, Public Works $ 2028 Low federal agencies to collectively identify threats to the HMGP Grants, Department, City and the region and identify ways to Flood Mitigation retrofit/strengthen the dams under their control. Assistance Fire Grants, Other
Grants
FLO8 Identify all structures located in dam or levee General Fund, Public Works $ 2027 Low inundation zones. Develop evacuation procedures HMGP Grants, Department, and public information strategies to expedite Flood Mitigation Administrative evacuation of threatened areas should a dam or Assistance Services levee threaten to fail. Grants, Other
Grants
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$ - Less than $75,000
$$ - $75,001 to $4,999,999
$$$ - Greater than $5,000,000
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WHO IS THIS PLAN FOR?
Upland Upland City Residents, Emergency Departments Decision Makers Businesses, and Management Stakeholders
• Pursue Grants • Increase funding • Reduce hazard � 11.• Improve quality . for project and risks that may � of life • Reduce future programs affect residents, hazard risks businesses, and . Create • Fix problems City operations. 'Iopportunities to Make their jobs L
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Structural Retrofitting of Existing Buildings 1 1 Non-Structural Retrofitting of Existing Bid.&Facilities
WHAT HAZARDS ARE IN THE LHMP?
Table 3-4: Upland Hazard Prioritization Scores and Threat Levels Impact (2.0)
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• Extreme Heat 2 3 2 3 21.2 Medium
• Drought 2 2 2 3 18 Medium
• Severe Wind , 4 4 2 2 44.8 High Infrastructure Failure 2.5 4 2.2 3 28.6 Medium • Power Failure 2 4 2 3 24.4 Medium • Public Safety Power Shutoff 3 4 2 3 32.7 Medium Flood 2 3 2.5 3 20.3 Medium
• Surface Flooding 3 2 2 3 27 Medium • Dam and Levee Failure 1 4 3 3 13.6 Medium *Addressed under each relevant hazard
LHMP DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Plan Public Review/ Plan Review
Development Cal OES / Plan Approval April 2025 — » Stakeholder Coordination 0 � FEMA ) 0 (Post FEMA April 2026 review)
March 2026 March 2026
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OUTREACH AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Our Approach included both :
Online Engagement
Online Survey
32 Responses to Date (it is still open)
• Top three hazards: (1 ) Earthquakes, (2) High Winds, and (3) Wildfire. • N 53% concerned that climate change may exacerbate or create new hazards, —9% aren't concerned at all. • N 57% of responders are familiar with the special needs of neighbors in the event of a disaster.
LHMP Webpage
nttps:/I www.upiandca.gov/local-hazard-mitigation-plan-Ihmp In Person Engagement City Council Presentation — March 2026 Cal OES/ FEMA Review — April 2026
Stakeholder Meeting — March to April 2026
City Council Adoption — Post FEMA Approval
Public Review Period — March 2026 Page 653 of 654
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