Rancho Cucamonga, California

3 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 I n the heart of Southern California’s Inland Empire region, the City of Rancho Cucamonga offers a complement of urban and rural living. With majestic views of the San Gabriel Mountains and the Angeles National Forest, Rancho Cucamonga is connected to three major highways (Route 210, I-15, and I-10) and the Ontario International Airport, providing the perfect combination for those looking for a very accessible community with the serenity of a natural landscape. Matt Burris, Deputy City Manager for Community Development shares, “We are about 45 minutes from the beach, the mountains, and the desert, and around an hour from downtown Los Angeles. All the different entertainment and recreational opportunities that come from that geography make it a really great place to live.” The City of Rancho Cucamonga was incorporated in 1977 when the historic communities of Alta Loma, Etiwanda, and Cucamonga joined together to manage the rapid growth each was experiencing. Explaining how these three communities shaped the diverse nature of the city, Burris relays, “We’ve got some historic development patterns from those communities that really gave the city a lot of its character. Alta Loma started as a semi-rural, equestrian-oriented series of neighborhoods. Cucamonga started as a railroad town, around the Pacific Electric train stop, and so it has a little bit more of a traditional development pattern, and Etiwanda was one of the Chaffey Brothers colonies – it was somewhere in between, with a traditional large lot neighborhood design.” ia AT A GLANCE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA WHAT: A city of 175,000 WHERE: San Bernardino County, California WEBSITE: www.cityofrc.us ONGA, A Connected Community