Pomona, CA Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Sec. 74-133 lays out sequential requirements for work/live conversions in the Downtown Pomona specific plan's mixed-use districts. First, the applicant files a work/live unit permit application with the building and safety division, accompanied by at least three sets of architectural drawings at one-quarter-inch-to-a-foot scale showing existing uses and the proposed unit location; staff then routes copies to all affected departments for review. Second, no building may actually be used for work/live purposes until that work/live unit permit is obtained. Third, and separately, no building or structure covered by the division may be constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, improved, removed, converted or demolished without its own building permit from the building official, one permit per building or portion of a building.

Fourth, occupancy requires a business license under Chapter 50, Article VIII, and, at the final stage, the building official must complete and approve a final inspection before a certificate of occupancy can be requested; the certificate then must be posted in a conspicuous location behind the exit door of each unit. If a unit is later used contrary to the code, the building official can order the use discontinued, and, unless the violation is life-threatening, the occupant has seven days after notice to bring the unit into compliance before further action.