Pacifica, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)

Chapter 7 of Title 8 adopts Chapters 1 through 8 of the California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition, Title 24, California Code of Regulations, Part 11, covering conservation of building materials, waste management and sustainability for all buildings and structures in the City. , effective January 1, 2026. A copy is on file for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk. Pacifica layers several of its own amendments onto the state code rather than adopting it untouched. 02 adds local definitions, including Affordable Housing Units, dwellings kept affordable to lower-income households for at least 45 years under a City Attorney-approved covenant, and All Electric Building, a building with no natural gas or propane plumbing, though solar thermal pool heating is still allowed.

1 on outdoor potable water use: residential developments must comply with the California Department of Water Resources' Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, or, for projects with less than 2,500 square feet of aggregate landscape area, the Ordinance's Appendix D Prescriptive Compliance Option. 07 adds a streamlined electric-vehicle-charging-station permitting process modeled on the residential solar process in Chapter 4.