Ventura, CA Building Safety: Green Building Code (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- 2025 California Green Building Standards Code
- Title 24 part
- Part 11
- Local amendments
- None (adopted as written)
- Latest adopting ordinance
- Ord. No. 2025-011, 11-18-25
- Enforcing office
- Building and Safety Division
Summary
Ventura adopts the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code, Part 11 of Title 24, in full at Municipal Code Section 12.135.020, with no local amendments layered on top, unlike the city's Building, Plumbing, Electrical and Mechanical Code chapters.
12.135.020 Adoption of the California Green Building Standards Code, 2025 Edition. Pursuant to California Government Code Sections 50022.1 to 50022.8, inclusive, Part 11 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, known as the California Green Building Code, 2025 Edition (“CGBC”), is adopted by reference. One true copy of the California Green Building Code is on file in the office of the building official and is available for public inspection as required by law.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-008, passed May 12, 2026).
Full Breakdown
050. 8, with a true copy kept on file in the office of the Building Official for public inspection as required by law. 020) each do; the city takes CALGreen as written by the state without local additions or deletions. The current adoption traces to Ordinance No. 2019-019, carried forward through Ordinance No. 2022-021 and most recently Ordinance No. 2025-011 adopted November 18, 2025, matching the same 2025 code-cycle update applied to the rest of Title 12's building standards chapters. Because it is folded into the same Title 12 permit structure as the Building Code, compliance with CALGreen's mandatory measures is checked by the Building and Safety Division as part of the standard plan-check and building-permit process for new construction and qualifying alterations in the city.
Violations & Fines
Because CALGreen is adopted without local amendment, noncompliance is enforced the same way any Title 24 building-code violation is: the Building and Safety Division can withhold plan-check approval or final inspection sign-off until the required CALGreen measures are shown to be met, consistent with the code-compliance tools set out elsewhere in Title 12.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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