HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 2025-3607ORDINANCE NO. 3607
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING
CHAPTER 15.12 OF THE CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE,
GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS, ADOPTING THE
CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS CODE, 2025
EDITION AND LOCAL AMENDMENTS THERETO
WHEREAS, the California Building Standards Commission requires jurisdictions within the
State to begin enforcing the 2025 Edition of the California Building Standards Code on January 1,
2026; and
WHEREAS, local jurisdictions are permitted to adopt local amendments to the State
building codes before they take effect; and
WHEREAS, local amendments cannot be less restrictive than the State building codes and
must be based on findings that the amendments are necessary because of local climatic, geological,
or topographical conditions; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 130 prohibits local jurisdictions from modifying residential
building standards except under specific circumstances from October 1, 2025, through June 1,
2031; and
WHEREAS, the proposed ordinance adopts the 2025 California Green Building Standards
Code and proposes the re-adoption of an existing non-technical local amendment to the current locally
adopted Green Building Standards Code.
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does ordain as follows:
Section I. Amended Chapter 15.12
That chapter 15.12 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Chapter 15.12
Green Building Standards
Sections:
Section 15.12.001 California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by
reference
Section 15.12.005 California Green Building Standards Code Subsection 102.4
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Section 15.12.001 California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by
reference
There is hereby adopted by reference the California Green Building Standards Code, 2025
Edition, known as the California Code of Regulations, Title 24 part 11, as copyrighted by the
California Building Standards Commission. Said document is hereby adopted as the Green
Building Standards Code of the City of Chula Vista for enhancing the design and construction of
buildings, building additions and alterations through the use of building concepts having a reduced
negative impact or positive environmental impact and encouraging sustainable construction
practices, excepting such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended. Chapter 15.06
of the Chula Vista Municipal Code shall serve as the administrative, organizational and
enforcement rules and regulations for this chapter.
Section 15.12.005 California Green Building Standards Code Subsection 102.4
Subsection 102.4 is added to section 102 of the California Green Building Standards Code,
as it applies in Chula Vista, and shall read as follows:
102.4 Consultant Services. The Building Official may require the applicant to retain the
services of a consultant having expertise in green building and/or energy efficiency techniques to
review and evaluate complex systems and/or alternate methods or materials of construction and
provide recommendations as to compliance with the requirements of this code. The cost of such a
consultant shall be paid by the applicant.
Section II. Severability
If any portion of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any
reason held to be invalid, unenforceable or unconstitutional, by a court of competent jurisdiction,
that portion shall be deemed severable, and such invalidity, unenforceability or unconstitutionality
shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining portions of the Ordinance, or its
application to any other person or circumstance. The City Council of the City of Chula Vista
hereby declares that it would have adopted each section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Ordinance, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, sentences, clauses, or
phrases of the Ordinance be declared invalid, unenforceable, or unconstitutional.
Section III. Construction
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista intends this Ordinance to supplement, not to
duplicate or contradict, applicable state and federal law, and this Ordinance shall be construed in
light of that intent.
Section IV. Effective Date
This ordinance will take effect and be in force thirty days after final passage, but not before
January 1, 2026.
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Section V. Publication
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published or posted according to law.
Presented by Approved as to form by
Roy Sapa’u Marco A. Verdugo
Director of Development Services City Attorney
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 18th day of November 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Chavez, Fernandez, Inzunza, Preciado, and McCann
NAYS: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
John McCann, Mayor
ATTEST:
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Kerry K. Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 3607 had its first reading at a regular meeting held on the 4th day of November
2025, and its second reading and adoption at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
18th day of November 2025 and was duly published in summary form in accordance with the
requirements of state law and the City Charter.
Dated Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
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