Lynwood, CA Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Lynwood Municipal Code Chapter 11, Article 27 sets an expedited electric vehicle charging station permitting process required by state Assembly Bills 1236 and 970. Under § 11-27.6(a), the building official's review is limited to whether the application meets local, state and federal health and safety requirements, and the permit is treated as a nondiscretionary approval; the city cannot condition approval on the sign-off of a homeowners' association under Civil Code § 4080 (§ 11-27.6(b)). Section 11-27.6(e) sets a deemed-complete timeline: an application for one to twenty-five charging stations at a single site is deemed complete if the building official has not found it complete or issued a written correction notice within five business days of submission; for more than twenty-five stations at one site, the window extends to ten business days.

All required submission documents must be posted on the city's website (§ 11-27.5(a)), and the city council adopts by resolution a compliance checklist that substantially follows the state's Plug-In Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Permitting Checklist (§ 11-27.5(b)-(c)). Every charging station must meet the California Electrical Code, SAE and NEMA standards and be independently tested (§ 11-27.4(a)). If the building official finds, based on substantial evidence, that a station could have a specific, adverse impact on public health and safety, the official may require a conditional use permit instead (§ 11-27.6(f)); that decision, or a resulting CUP denial, is appealable to the planning commission and then the city council under § 25-100.