Tracy, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Tracy Municipal Code sec. 9.14.030
- Adopted code
- 2025 California Green Building Standards Code
- Categories covered
- 5: planning, energy, water, materials, environment
- Enforcement
- Infraction under sec. 9.02.040/Chapter 1.04
Summary
Tracy enforces the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code citywide under Municipal Code Section 9.14.030, covering planning and design, energy efficiency, water efficiency, material conservation, and environmental quality on every building permit. Section 9.14.040 makes violations an infraction under the same Title 9 enforcement scheme as the rest of the building codes.
9.14.030 - Adoption by reference of the California Green Building Standards Code. The City hereby adopts by reference the code entitled "2025 California Green Building Standards Code" without appendices and copyrighted by the California Building Standards Commission (hereinafter "California Green Building Standards Code"), as amended by this chapter. The California Green Building Standards Code is on file with the City Clerk and is available for inspection and copying in accordance with Government Code Section 50022.6.
(Ord. No. 1157, § 7, 4-5-2011; Ord. No. 1228, § 13, 1-17-2017; Ord. No. 1274, § 14, 11-19-2019; Ord. No. 1335, § 15, 12-6-2022; Ord. No. 1367, § 7, 12-2-2025)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
14 adopts the California Green Building Standards Code as the City's own Green Building Standards Code. 6. 020 spells out the purpose: improving public health, safety, and general welfare by enhancing building design and construction through reduced-impact building concepts and sustainable construction practices, organized around five categories the chapter names outright: planning and design; energy efficiency; water efficiency and conservation; material conservation and resource efficiency; and environmental quality. Because the Green Building Standards Code is adopted alongside, and enforced through, the same administrative machinery as Tracy's Building, Residential, Electrical, and Plumbing Codes, a green-building compliance review runs through the same permit application, plan check, and inspection process a builder already follows for the underlying construction permit, rather than a separate parallel approval track.
010 folds it into the same Title 9 Building Regulations framework as the rest of the adopted construction codes. Ordinance history shows the chapter was most recently carried forward by Ordinance No. 1367 on December 2, 2025, alongside the parallel updates to the Building, Residential, Electrical, and Plumbing Codes for the 2025 code cycle.
Violations & Fines
Violations of Tracy's Green Building Standards Code are enforced under Section 9.14.040, which applies the same enforcement path as the rest of Title 9: violations are handled by the City in accordance with Tracy Municipal Code Section 9.02.040, making noncompliance an infraction under Chapter 1.04 and blocking acceptance of any use permit, zone change, building permit, or other entitlement application for a noncompliant parcel.
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Sources & Official References
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