Beacon Award Participant Profile
City of Rancho Cucamonga
January 24, 2012
“The Sustainability Action Plan provides the foundation for the City of Rancho Cucamonga to set a course towards achieving environmental sustainability. The proposed actions focus on policies and City operations initiatives that will facilitate the integration of a healthy mind, body, and Earth, in keeping with the Healthy RC initiative.” Ranch Cucamonga Green Team
About Rancho Cucamonga
- Incorporated: 1977
- Population: 165,269 (2010)
- Location: Suburban city in San Bernadino County
- Elevation: 1,207 feet
- Area: 9 square miles
Climate Action Activities
- Climate Action Plan in Progress
- Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report in progress
- Created Rancho Cucamonga Innovative City Green Strategies in April 2010
- HEAL Cities Campaign Participant
- City policy to support infrastructure improvements to attract light industrial and manufacturing uses, green technology uses, energy- related businesses, and research and development uses
- Require new developments of more than 100 employees to develop Transportation Demand Management programs to minimize automobile trips and to encourage use of transit, ridesharing, bicycling, and walking
- Resolution No. 07-231 that bans expanded polystyrene food service products
- Created the Healthy RC Green Living Guide that provides information to help make Ranch Cucamonga a greener and healthier place to live
- Tree City USA Member
- Provide residents with the Healthy RC Challenge that uses the CoreHealth software to track and motivate participants as they work their way to a healthier lifestyle
- Annual Cucamonga Challenge 29 mile bike ride, and a 5k/10k run/walk along the Pacific Electric Trail in Rancho Cucamonga
- Created the Frontier Project which is a 14,000-square-foot LEED-certified demonstration facility developed by the Frontier Project Foundation and the Cucamonga Valley Water District. The building, located in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, provides homeowners, business owners, builders, architects, sustainable advocates and others interested in the environment and the preservation of natural resources with a facility that presents the latest green methods and technologies in water, energy and site conservation
- Currently has three Energy Star labeled buildings and plants
- City encourage developers, builders, and businesses to “go green” when constructing facilities and operating businesses within the community
- City promotes converting standard light bulbs to more energy efficient Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFL)
- City currently irrigates the Adult Sports Complex, Victoria Arbors Park and twenty parkway and median island landscape sites totaling 1,500,000 square feet with recycled water
Climate Action Resources
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The Beacon Award program is funded by California utility ratepayers and administered by Southern California Gas Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison, under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.