STRENGTHS
• Unique historical agriculture/horticulture
• Agricultural industry
• Oak Glen Apple Growers Association
• Four seasons
• Natural beauty (mountains, clean air, best
fresh apple cider in Southern California)
• Distance from freeways – isolation, quiet
• Availability of water
• Close knit self-reliance
• Topography
• Employment opportunities
• Family businesses
WEAKNESSES
• Phone/cell services
• Disrespect boundaries - attitudes within
the community that re-enforce destructive
behavior.
• County does not adequately enforce
conditions, so some operators continually
violate them and ignore requests to conform
• Theft, crime
• Slow sheriff response times
• Strife within the community (disagreements)
• Lack of support for hardships of farmers
• Lack of help from the County to meet
paperwork licensing
• Government view of “one size fits all”
• Parking and buses for tourists during apple
season
• Parking enforcement during high-volume
OPPORTUNITIES
• Appeal to the public’s need/desire for family
oriented experiences
• Help the city of Yucaipa embrace community
as part of them
• Education of outside population to respect
nature
• Highly desirable atmosphere/area
• Sharing the beauty – uplifting all
• Recreation/exercise (biking, hiking trails)
• Capitalize on tourism
• Photo opportunities
• Specialized location
• County sponsor
• San Bernardino Road Department is great
THREATS
• Destruction of views
• Commercial noise
• Light pollution
• Losing what makes Oak Glen special
• High density housing
• Development of older agricultural lands and
other development
• Water claims/water rights issues
• Natural disasters (fire, drought, earthquake)
• Bugs – threat to environmental sustainability
both privately and environmentally
• Impact of too many visitors at one time
• Dealing with a public that doesn’t
understand the area
• Beaumont’s proposed watershed
SWOT ANALYSIS
• Apple farming • Generally healthier than the rest of San
• Good aquifer Bernardino County
• Entertainment • High rates of homeownership
• Tourism (agri-tourism) • Frequent community events
• Neighbors committed to the community
• Rural but accessible
• Rural appeal
• Better air quality than the rest of the South
Coast Air Basin
• Strong connection to historical roots
• Businesses geared toward services, retail
trade, and agriculture
days reach)
• Seasonal traffic problems • Lack of restrooms
• Infrastructure (road conditions) • No County maintained official trails within
• Lack of services the community
• Too rural for emergency services or • Lack of pedestrian/biking facilities on Oak
communications Glen road and other local side streets
• Seasonal lull for businesses • Walkscore is 0, indicating that all errands
• Changing ethics must be completed using a car
• Redevelopment • Lack of public transportation opportunities
• Resident versus business goals • Distance to hospital/urgent care facilities,
• Loss of farms closest hospitals are in Redlands and
• Administrative access - establish the Banning
ability to enforce conditions timely and • Single family homes are primary housing
responsively. Need someone other than stock, lack of multi-family housing
Sheriff who is not familiar with land use
condition.
• Too much government regulation (over-
• Historic preservation • Overflow parking and shuttle
• City/County promotional • County liaison
• Information and education support • Architectural standards
• Coordinate police, fire, road safety services • Historic buildings/landmarks
• YCC Water District? • Population growth in the valley
• Overnight lodging • Multi-use hiking, cycling, and equestrian use
• Benefits of diversity trail along Oak Glen Road
• Bringing awareness to surrounding • Increase in active transportation
communities of farming (issues/affects/
respect)
• Ability to have small business roadside sale
of farm goods
• Farm watch
• Rural crimes task force SBSD
• Unsustainable on-going development • Road work projects blocking or delaying
• Pests, including goldspotted oak borer customers during tourist season
(GSOB) and FSHB? • Crime - people trespassing onto apple
• Post-office/mail box break-ins orchards and individuals picking apples
• Limited access/exit routes without paying
• Unregulated wedding “houses” • Parts of Oak Glen with low healthy food
• Noise after 10:00 p.m. access
• No seasonal crowd control • Non-permitted construction
• State regulations (brush removal, water use) • Illegal land uses, particularly with non-
• Changing climate – harder to guarantee permitted wedding and event venues
water for agriculture
• Houses that exceed County height standards
• Bedroom community conflicts with farming
• Water quality
• Encroaching housing development
QUESTIONS? WANT INFORMATION?
countywideplan.com/OakGlen
OakGlenCP@lus.sbcounty.gov
VALUES
• Rural country beauty/scenery
• Four seasons (weather change)
• Traditional culture
• Conservative family/faith based values
• Community history/heritage
• Agricultural rural
• Family and community (tight knit)
• Wildlife
• Small family businesses

ASPIRATIONS
• To continue growing
• Apple capital of California
• Southern California location known for
family fun and agriculture/farming activities
• Where families can come to remember or
learn the lifestyle that built America
• Living museum of historic agricultural
practice
• Maintain historic heritage of apple farming
and rural living
• Continue the historical agri-tourism industry
in the area
• All agriculture welcomed (big and small)
• Added educational opportunities
• Protect old growth (oaks/native trees, apple
trees, sycamores)
• Save ridge views (no ridge development)
• Resurgence of apple orchards