Murrieta, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- CALGreen 2025 Edition, Title 24 Part 11
- Local section
- Murrieta Code § 15.47.010
- Recycling overlay
- § 8.28.120, added by Ord. 575 (2022)
- Multifamily trigger
- 5+ dwelling units on one site
- Commercial trigger
- Additions over 30% of floor area
- Enforcing office
- City Building Official at plan check
Summary
Murrieta enforces the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen, Title 24 Part 11) as its local green building code, adopted by reference under Chapter 15.47. A separate city ordinance layers on mandatory construction-and-demolition recycling space requirements tied to CALGreen's own sections.
15.47.010 Green Building Standards Code adopted. The California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition (Title 24, Part 11), is hereby adopted and made part of this title by reference. (Ord. 625-25 § 13, 2025; Ord. 583 § 12, 2022; Ord. 552-19 § 17, 2019)
8.28.120(A)(1): "...provide readily accessible areas that serve occupants of all buildings on the site and are identified for the storage and collection of blue container and green container materials, consistent with the three-container collection program offered by the city, or comply with provision of adequate space for recycling for multi-family and commercial premises pursuant to Sections 4.408.1, 4.410.2, 5.408.1, and 5.410.1 of the California Green Building Standards Code, 24 CCR, Part 11..."
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-23: A Codification of the General Ordinances of the City of Murrieta, California through Ord. 634-26, passed 7-7-2026).
Full Breakdown
010 adopts the California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition (Title 24, Part 11), "and made part of this title by reference," most recently through Ordinance 625-25 § 13 (2025), following earlier adoptions under Ordinance 583 § 12 (2022) and Ordinance 552-19 § 17 (2019). The Building Official administers CALGreen alongside the other Title 15 codes (California Building, Residential, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical and Energy Codes) as part of every building permit review. 120: any project covered by CALGreen must, as a condition of permit approval, provide readily accessible blue-container and green-container recycling and organics storage areas.
1 (as amended July 1, 2019, effective January 1, 2020) directly. 1. Both the recycling condition and the CALGreen adoption are enforced at plan check and final inspection; a project that cannot show compliant recycling/collection space will not receive permit sign-off.
Violations & Fines
Building without complying with the adopted CALGreen provisions, or without the § 8.28.120 recycling storage areas where required, blocks permit issuance and final inspection sign-off from the Building Official. Ordinance 575 § 2 (2022), which added § 8.28.120, ties enforcement to the city's permit-approval process rather than a standalone citation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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