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

The city of Temecula adopts the California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition (Part 11 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations), including Appendix A5 Non-Residential Voluntary Measures, as part of the construction codes package codified at Temecula Municipal Code § 15.04.010. This adoption sits alongside the 2025 editions of the California Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire, Energy, Residential and Wildland-Urban Interface Codes, all administered by the city's Building Official under Chapter 15.02. Ordinance 2025-14, adopted November 18, 2025, repealed and replaced the prior 2022-cycle package that Ordinance 22-13 had adopted, keeping Temecula current with the state's triennial code cycle.

A plan review fee equal to seventy-five percent of the building permit fee applies at submittal (§ 15.02.020), and work started without a permit is charged double the fee, capped at the permit fee plus five hundred dollars (§ 15.04.020(F)). Beyond the base CALGreen adoption, § 8.20.770 layers a construction-and-demolition recycling mandate onto covered CALGreen projects: buildings with five or more multifamily units must provide readily accessible areas for blue-container (recyclables) and green-container (organics) storage consistent with the city's collection program, or otherwise meet CALGreen Sections 4.408.1, 4.410.2, 5.408.1 and 5.410.1, and the same applies to commercial additions expanding floor area by more than thirty percent.

Organic waste commingled with construction and demolition debris must also meet CALGreen Sections 4.408.1 and 5.408.1. The Building Official reviews compliance during plan check and will not clear a certificate of occupancy until the recycling-space and CALGreen provisions are satisfied.