Corona, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Code edition adopted
- 2025 CA Green Building Standards Code
- Scope
- Title 24, Part 11, Chapters 1-8
- Excluded appendices
- Appendices A4, A5, A6 not adopted
- Applies to
- Every newly constructed building
- Most recent adoption
- Ordinance 3421, 2025
Summary
Corona adopts the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code, Title 24 Part 11, Chapters 1 through 8, as its local Green Building Code under Corona Code of Ordinances § 15.05.020, applying it to the planning, design, construction, and occupancy of every newly built structure.
Subject to the particular additions, amendments and deletions set forth in this chapter, all the rules, regulations, provisions and conditions set forth in that certain document being marked and designated as 2025 California Green Building Standards Code, Cal. Code of Regulations Title 24, Part 11, Chapters 1 through 8, not including the appendices, and including any supplements, errata, and revisions made thereto, are hereby adopted as the Green Building Code of the City of Corona. Appendices A4, A5, and A6 are not adopted as part of this code.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2025 S-56: Supplement contains: Local legislation passed through Ord. 3423, passed 12-3-2025).
Full Breakdown
05, the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code (California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 11), Chapters 1 through 8, including all supplements, errata, and revisions, as the Green Building Code of the City of Corona; Appendices A4, A5, and A6 are specifically excluded from adoption. A certified copy is kept on file with the Building Official, and every regulation, provision, penalty, condition, and term of the state code is made part of the local chapter as though fully set out. 02, the Green Building Standards Code applies to the planning, design, operation, construction, use, and occupancy of every newly constructed building in the city, covering mandatory measures for water efficiency, construction waste diversion, and indoor air quality that apply on top of the base Building Code.
02, meaning green building plan review runs through the Building and Inspections Division alongside the standard building permit process rather than as a separate track. The current version was readopted by Ordinance 3421 in 2025, replacing the prior 2022 edition adopted by Ordinance 3357 for consistency with the state's triennial code update cycle.
Violations & Fines
Noncompliance with the Green Building Code is penalized the same way as any other Title 15 building code violation under Corona Code of Ordinances § 15.05.040, which applies the penalty scheme in Chapters 15.02 and 15.70: an infraction for a first offense, rising to a misdemeanor for a person with two or more Title 15 convictions within a continuous 12-month period.
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