HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 2025-3612ORDINANCE NO. 3612
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING
CHAPTER 15.28 OF THE CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE ,
PLUMBING CODE, ADOPTING THE CALIFORNIA
PLUMBING 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 Plumbing Code and proposes
the re-adoption of section 15.28.020, Residential Graywater Stub-out.
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does ordain as follows:
Section I. Amended Chapter 15.28
That Chapter 15.28 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Chapter 15.28
PLUMBING CODE
Sections:
15.28.010 California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by reference.
15.28.015 Repealed.
15.28.020 Residential graywater Stub-out.
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15.28.010 California Plumbing Code,2025 Edition, adopted by reference.
There is hereby adopted by reference the California Plumbing Code, 2025 Edition, known as
the California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 5, including Appendices A, B, D, H, I, J, and R
as adopted by state agencies, and excluding Chapter 1, Division II of that document as copyrighted
by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and the California Building
Standards Commission. Said document is hereby adopted as the Plumbing Code of the City of
Chula Vista for regulating the complete installation, maintenance, and repair of plumbing, drainage
systems, water systems, gas systems, and private sewage disposal systems on all properties and
within all buildings and structures in the City. Chapter 15.06 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code
shall serve as the administrative, organizational, and enforcement rules and regulations for this
chapter.
15.28.020 Residential graywater stub-out.
All new detached single-family dwellings and duplexes, excluding Accessory Dwelling Units,
shall include a single-source clothes washer graywater outlet and an outside stub-out to allow the
later installation of a clothes washer graywater irrigation system that complies with the
requirements of Section 1503.1.1 of the 2025 California Plumbing Code. The outlet and stub-out
shall be installed in accordance with the Chula Vista Clothes Washer Graywater Pre-Plumbing and
Stub-Out for New Residential Construction or an equivalent alternate method and/or material
approved by the Building Official.
The provisions of this section may be modified or waived when it can be satisfactorily
demonstrated to the Building Official that compliance with these regulations is impractical due to
construction or physical constraints, or due to site and/or soil conditions.
Section II. Findings and Declaration
The City Council specifically and expressly finds and declares that section 15.28.020 is necessary
due to local climatic conditions. As a result of prolonged droughts exacerbated by climate change,
it is anticipated that water supplies from imported sources are reduced, and furthermore, as a result
of population and economic growth, demand for water is expected to increase. These impacts could
limit imported water availability, lead to higher demand for local water sources and increase utility
costs. Requiring single-source graywater stub-out in new residential development facilitates the
use of graywater for irrigation which in turn helps address these water -related climate change
impacts.
Section III. 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.
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Section IV. 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 V. Effective Date
This ordinance will take effect and be in force thirty days after final passage, but not before
January 1, 2026.
Section VI. 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. 3612 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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