HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 2025-3611ORDINANCE NO. 3611
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING
CHAPTER 15.26 OF THE CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE,
ENERGY CODE, ADOPTING THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY
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 Energy Code and proposes
the re-adoption of Section 15.26.020, Outdoor lighting zones, and the relocation of Section 15.26.050,
Mandatory benchmarking and conservation requirements for multifamily and commercial buildings,
to a new Chapter, 15.62, Energy Benchmarking and Conservation, with amendments substantially
equivalent with those previously adopted and aligned with the Environmental Element of the
General Plan, adopted December 13, 2005.
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does ordain as follows:
Section I. Amended Chapter 15.26
That chapter 15.26 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Chapter 15.26
ENERGY CODE
Sections:
15.26.010 California Energy Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by reference.
15.26.020 Outdoor lighting zones.
15.26.030 Repealed.
15.26.040 Repealed
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15.26.050 Relocated to Section 15.62
15.26.010 California Energy Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by reference.
The City of Chula Vista adopts, by reference, that certain document known as the California
Energy Code, 2025 Edition, set forth in Title 24, Part 6, of the California Code of Regulations, as
copyrighted by, and as may be amended from time to time by, the California Building Standards
Commission. That California Energy Code is adopted as the Energy Code of the City of Chula
Vista for the purpose of regulating building design and construction standards to increase
efficiency in the use of energy for new residential and nonresidential buildings. Chapter 15.06 of
the Chula Vista Municipal Code shall serve as the administrative, organizational, and enforcement
rules and regulations for this chapter.
15.26.020 Outdoor lighting zones.
Pursuant to Section 10-114 (c) of the California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 1, the city has
adopted an outdoor lighting zones map amending state default lighting zones as applied to certain
areas of the City. The location of outdoor lighting zones in the City are per the adopted Outdoor
Lighting Zones Map, dated September 2, 2005 and kept on file with the City’s Development
Services Department.
Relocated to Section 15.62
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.
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.
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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. 3611 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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