Pacifica, CA Building Safety: Building Permits (2026)

01 adopts Chapters 1 through 35 of the 2025 California Building Code, including the flood-resistant construction and grading appendices, and applies it to the erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, removal, demolition, conversion, occupancy, and maintenance of all buildings, structures and grading in the City. Local amendments in Chapter 8-1 modify that adopted code. 3, which lets the City Engineer require, before issuing a building permit for construction on unimproved property, that the applicant build any missing public improvements, street paving, sidewalks, gutters, curbs and related facilities, along the property as part of the construction project.

Two exceptions apply: the City Engineer can accept a signed agreement to build the improvements later if grades can't practically be set beforehand, and the City Council can waive sidewalks by resolution in areas where they aren't required. 4 so that anyone who starts work requiring a permit before actually obtaining one owes an investigation and processing fee equal to the permit fee, or the amount set in City Administrative Policy No. 2, collected before the permit is issued regardless of whether the City ultimately issues it. 04 if it was issued in error or based on incomplete information, or if work departs from approved plans or conditions. 09.