Upland, California

UPLAND , CAL I FORNI A downtown area. “We don’t have a major college next to the downtown or major employer,” he explains, “so the way we’re going to get critical mass is by trying to get mixed-use development or residential development within the downtown area.” Rosemary Hoerning is Upland’s Interim City Manager and Director of Public Works. She relates some of the green initiatives that Upland has promulgated in order to reduce energy consumption and its attendant costs to the City. “A project that’s nearing completion is an energy efficiency project associated with retrofitting our existing public buildings to LED lighting and to high-efficiency air conditioning and heating units. It also includes the placement of solar panels on rooftops of our public buildings, so that we can take advantage of our natural sunlight while generating onsite energy that offsets what we need to use from our energy provider, Southern California Edison. That was a pretty significant project and we anticipate that CNC Motors at 20th Street Upland Village Center