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Upland council approves West End Navigation Center MOU, sets hearing to adopt 2025 California building code
Summary
The Upland City Council unanimously approved joining a regional memorandum of understanding to fund and refer clients to a West End Navigation Center for homelessness response and set a Nov. 24 public hearing to adopt the new 2025 California Building Standards Code by reference.
The Upland City Council on Monday unanimously approved joining a regional memorandum of understanding to support a West End Navigation Center aimed at coordinating shelter, recuperative care and related services for people experiencing homelessness, Police Chief Marcelo Blanco told the council.
The action came as council members also voted unanimously to introduce an ordinance and set a Nov. 24 public hearing to consider adopting by reference the 2025 edition of the California Building Standards Code (Title 24).
The navigation-center MOU, presented by Police Chief Marcelo Blanco, outlines a facility staffed by county services that the chief said “is gonna have 200 beds, 100 emergency shelter beds and 100 recuperative care beds. It’s gonna have a sobering center.” Blanco said the center will accept clients by referral only from participating agencies and cities, and that participating jurisdictions would share annual operating costs based on a formula tied to population and the most recent point-in-time homeless count.
Why it matters: The MOU creates a regionalized option the council described as intended to reduce street homelessness while concentrating health, behavioral…
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