Woodland, CA Landscaping Rules: Composting (2026)

Woodland's SB 1383 organics ordinance treats composting as something a generator can do in addition to, not instead of, the mandatory collection-service subscription required by § 13.72.020(A): a single-family household still has to subscribe to the city's green or organic waste service, and can then separately reduce what it sets out at the curb by managing organic waste through backyard residential composting or through a community composting site. The Municipal Code does not set a size, container, or setback standard for a resident's own backyard compost pile; the only volume limit that appears anywhere in the chapter applies to community composting operations, which § 13.72.010 defines, by cross-reference to the state's SB 1383 regulations, as capped at no more than 100 cubic yards of feedstock and compost on site at any one time and no more than 750 square feet of area, per 14 CCR § 17855(a)(4).

Composting that stays within a single-family yard for that household's own use, or that is dropped off at a qualifying community site, does not relieve the resident of the underlying subscription duty in § 13.72.020, and it does not exempt commercial businesses from the separate three-container requirements of § 13.72.030. The definitions in § 13.72.010 also treat food waste, including compostable plastics, as organic waste subject to the same source-separation rules if it is not composted on site.