Temecula, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- CALGreen 2025 Edition, Title 24 Part 11
- Local citation
- Temecula Municipal Code § 15.04.010(J)
- Adopting ordinance
- Ordinance 2025-14, effective November 18, 2025
- Plan review fee
- 75% of the building permit fee
- Unpermitted work penalty
- Double fee, capped at fee plus $500
- C&D recycling trigger
- 5+ multifamily units or 30%+ addition
Summary
Temecula enforces the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code (Part 11, Title 24 CCR) as its local green building code under Municipal Code § 15.04.010(J), adopted by Ordinance 2025-14 on November 18, 2025. New multifamily projects of five or more units and commercial additions exceeding 30% of floor area must also meet the city's CALGreen construction-waste recycling space standard in § 8.20.770.
Except as hereinafter provided in this title, the following codes are adopted by reference as the building codes of the city of Temecula: ... J. 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; ... A copy of each of the above codes shall be maintained in the office of city clerk and shall be made available for public inspection while such codes are in force.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4862229; v11 updated 2026-04-14).
Full Breakdown
010. 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 Ordinance 2025-14, adopted November 18, 2025, repealed and replaced the prior 2022-cycle package that Ordinance 22-13 had adopted, keeping Temecula current with the state's triennial code cycle. 020(F)). 1, and the same applies to commercial additions expanding floor area by more than thirty percent. 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.
Violations & Fines
Building without a permit or in violation of the adopted construction codes, including CALGreen, is unlawful under § 15.02.060 and enforced through Chapters 1.20, 1.21, 1.24 and 8.12 of the Municipal Code. Unpermitted work is billed double the standard fee once caught, capped at the permit fee plus $500 under § 15.04.020(F), separate from any citation or nuisance-abatement action the Building Official pursues for the underlying code violation.
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