Redlands, CA

Redlands zoning still carries a 2003/2010 'second unit' ordinance requiring rear placement, a hidden entrance and extra parking, but California's statewide ADU law (Gov. Code §§…

In Redlands' A-1 Agricultural zoning district, section 18.20.160 caps any accessory building, including a shed, at one thousand square feet of floor area and ten percent of the rear…

San Bernardino County lets accessory dwelling units be rented long-term anywhere, but short-term rentals under 30 days are allowed only in the Mountain and Desert Regions, under the…

San Bernardino County does not require owner occupancy for a standalone accessory dwelling unit (ADU) under County Code § 84.36.060(b). A junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU), created…

Unincorporated San Bernardino County allows a permitted "Tiny Home" on single-family residential parcels if it meets California Residential Code or manufactured-home construction…

California ADU law, Government Code 66310 et seq. (formerly 65852.2), expressly authorizes converting an existing garage into an ADU, with no replacement parking allowed and…

Redlands bans keeping lions, tigers, bears, wolves, cougars, ocelots, wildcats, skunks, and venomous or dangerous snakes as pets citywide, with narrow exceptions for licensed zoos…

Redlands makes it unlawful for a dog's owner or custodian to let it run loose or unrestrained on any public street, sidewalk, or place. Dogs already declared potentially dangerous or…

Redlands has no breed-specific dog ban. Chapter 6.05 instead lets the Animal Services Supervisor declare any dog "potentially dangerous" or "vicious" based on documented unprovoked…

Redlands has no citywide microchip mandate. The only microchipping duty in the code applies to a dog already declared potentially dangerous or vicious under Chapter 6.05, which must be…

Redlands does not require all dogs to be altered. The sole mandatory spay/neuter duty in the code applies to a dog already declared potentially dangerous or vicious, which must be…

Redlands requires a permit to keep bees and sets strict siting rules: apiaries must sit at least 100 feet from public roads and 600 feet from any inhabited dwelling unless neighbors…

Redlands classifies a veterinary practice as an "animal hospital" under its zoning code and confines it to a conditional use permit in the C-4 general commercial zone or the C-M…

Redlands City Code section 18.40.040 caps accessory pet keeping at three adult dogs and three adult cats per household, plus their litters up to ten weeks old. That limit is written…

Redlands allows hens and small livestock as an accessory use to a single-family home under Redlands City Code section 18.29.030, with numbers keyed to lot size. Chickens, rabbits and…

San Bernardino County residents may not keep injured wildlife without a California Department of Fish and Wildlife rehabilitator permit. SBC Animal Care refers calls to permitted…

Cats need no county license, but strays and pet cats can't roam free: except community cats returned under a TNVR colony program.

San Bernardino County Code § 28.0307(k) bans molesting, injuring or killing any bird or mammal, or disturbing its habitat, inside any County Regional Park. The rule sits among two…

The County does not ban retail pet sales; instead every pet shop, grooming parlor, aquarium, game bird farm, petting zoo, or wild-animal facility in the unincorporated area must hold…

Pet grooming parlors in unincorporated San Bernardino County must get a license from the County Health Officer before opening, and comply with zoning and sanitation rules under County…

Feeding wildlife is illegal in unincorporated San Bernardino County. County Code 32.1301 prohibits leaving food outside for nondomesticated mammalian predators - coyotes, raccoons…

Redlands bans barbed wire fences and thorn-bearing hedges along any street line, and separately bans electric fences citywide as part of its adopted electrical code. A limited…

Redlands requires retaining walls to be engineered to resist all imposed loads and built of concrete, masonry, or treated wood. Any wall over 30 inches tall must carry a 3-foot-high…

Redlands allows open, light-admitting fences up to 4 feet in a required front yard and solid fences or walls up to 6 feet along side and rear lines, dropping to 3 feet in the front…

Redlands caps solid fences at three feet in a required front yard, four feet for open wire-mesh fencing there, and six feet along side and rear property lines, with taller open fencing…

The San Bernardino County Development Code sets fence height, materials, and placement, but does not allocate the cost of a shared boundary fence between neighbors. Cost-sharing for…

Redlands, California requires every dwelling unit in a condominium conversion project to have a State Fire Marshal-approved smoke detector meeting NFPA pamphlet No. 74 before the…

Redlands has formally designated its Local Responsibility Area Fire Hazard Severity Zone under a city map adopted by Ordinance 2986, triggering the Wildland-Urban Interface Code's…

Redlands requires owners of buildings in hazardous fire areas, and adjoining landowners, to maintain a fuel modification zone by clearing combustible vegetation within 100 feet of…

Redlands caps bulk liquefied petroleum gas storage at 2,000 water gallons per installation in commercial, residential and other areas wherever the fire code official finds the storage…

Redlands bans possessing, storing, selling, transporting, or discharging any fireworks, including safe and sane fireworks, anywhere in the city, absent a permit from the State Fire…

Redlands allows backyard fires only in a permanent barbeque, portable barbeque, outdoor fireplace or grill kept at least 30 feet from combustible material, with a spark arrestor, an…

California requires permits for most outdoor burning, with statewide CAL FIRE and Air Resources Board rules that uniformly apply alongside local air district restrictions.

Redlands allows a home-based business only as a "home occupation" under Chapter 18.160, and it requires a permit, a city business license and annual renewal before anyone may operate…

Redlands bars a home-based business from receiving customers at the house at all. City Code Section 18.160.020(D) states the home occupation "shall not allow customers or clientele to…

Redlands lets a small family daycare home operate by right in any residential zone as an accessory use to the house, but a large family daycare home needs a conditional use permit and…

Redlands prohibits advertising signs for any home-based business. City Code Section 18.160.020(F) bars a home occupation from using "advertising signs on the premises, or any other…

Government Code section 51035 forbids any California city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a cottage food operation in a residential dwelling. The local agency must pick…

California lets home cooks sell meals from their own kitchen under a microenterprise home kitchen operation (MEHKO) permit, capped at 30 meals a day, 90 a week, and $100,000 in annual…

Redlands' fire hazard weed law, City Code section 8.40.010, declares weeds, dry grasses and combustible growth a public nuisance when their size, growth or location create a fire…

Redlands requires a permit from the public works director or street tree superintendent before anyone plants, prunes, injures, or removes a public tree, including street and parkway…

Redlands Municipal Code section 12.52.120 makes it a violation to let a tree, shrub or plant on private property obstruct streetlights, sidewalks, traffic signs or intersection…

When Redlands declares a water conservation stage, sprinkler irrigation is restricted to city-designated irrigation days and barred between noon and 8 P.M., with tougher hour and day…

Redlands' water-efficient landscape ordinance encourages rain gardens, cisterns and other catchment systems and expects new landscape designs to capture runoff from a one-inch, 24-hour…

Redlands' water-efficient landscape ordinance directs landscape design plans toward protecting native species, selecting local native and climate-adapted plants, and choosing species…

San Bernardino County's Development Code does not ban artificial turf and actively directs that natural turf be minimized to save water. Synthetic turf is an accepted water-saving…

SB 1383 requires every California resident and business to separate food scraps and yard waste from trash, with universal collection or on-site composting.

Redlands City Code section 8.06.090(D) makes it unlawful to own, possess or harbor any animal or bird that howls, barks, meows or squawks frequently or for long duration, creating a…

Redlands Municipal Code section 8.06.070 sets maximum exterior noise levels by land use and time of day: 50 dBA overnight and 60 dBA daytime for single-family and multi-family…

Redlands bars construction and demolition noise on weekdays and Saturdays between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and at any time on Sundays and holidays, under City Code section 8.06.090(F)…

Redlands requires a city permit before operating a loudspeaker or sound-amplifying equipment in a city park under Municipal Code section 12.44.090, and section 8.06.090(B) separately…

Redlands Municipal Code section 8.06.090 bans radios, stereos, loudspeakers, domestic power tools and loading or unloading activity that creates a noise disturbance across a…

Redlands Municipal Code section 10.60.100 requires every motor vehicle operated in the city to carry a working spark arrester and muffler meeting California Vehicle Code section 27150…

Unincorporated San Bernardino County has no ordinance banning or specifically restricting leaf blowers. Their use is governed by the general noise rules: the Development Code…

California sets statewide airport noise limits under Title 21 CCR, with the state preempting most local aviation noise control because federal FAA authority dominates aircraft…

Redlands marks its loading zones with color-coded curbs, each carrying its own time limit: a yellow curb permits loading only between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. except Sundays and…

Redlands lets the city or a private lot owner reserve off-street parking stalls, and public street stalls, exclusively for vehicles connected for electric charging, and authorizes…

Redlands treats abandoned, dismantled, inoperative, junked or wrecked vehicles kept visible on public or private property for more than seventy-two hours as a public nuisance. The…

Residents on a Redlands street can petition to create a preferential parking zone barring nonresident parking. Establishment requires signatures from 60 percent of frontage residents…

Redlands bars any commercial truck, tractor, semitrailer or trailer of 10,000 pounds or more from parking on a street, alley or parkway in a residential district, and caps such…

Redlands City Code section 8.20.110 governs where trailers, campers, mobilehomes, boat trailers and housecars may sit in residential zones: no interior habitation while stored…

Redlands limits paving in front yards to 25 percent of the required area for driveway access, and bans parking on the rest, which must stay landscaped. Detached campers, trailers…

Redlands does not run a blanket overnight parking ban; its old all-night parking prohibition was repealed in 2019. Instead, § 10.40.110 caps how long any vehicle may sit on a street or…

Redlands bars parking on sidewalks, crosswalks, within three feet of an access ramp, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant unless attended, and directly in front of any driveway. Vehicles…

Redlands assigns fixed legal meanings to painted curb colors under City Code Section 10.40.240. Red bars all stopping and parking, yellow limits use to timed loading, white restricts…

California doesn't ban private-property towing, but Vehicle Code Section 22658 controls how it happens. A posted sign at least 17 by 22 inches must warn drivers before a tow company…

Redlands amends the state Residential Code's pool safety provisions so that every new or remodeled private pool or spa must include an approved isolation enclosure plus at least one…

A Redlands homeowner must obtain a building permit before constructing a new pool or spa, or remodeling an existing one, at a private single-family home; the permit is the trigger that…

Loud or disturbing noise from a short-term rental in unincorporated San Bernardino County is unlawful under a reasonable-person standard, not a decibel limit.

Bookings of thirty-one consecutive days or longer fall outside the SBC short-term rental program and are treated as standard residential tenancies subject to AB 1482 statewide rent and…

Development Code Section 84.28.060(d) requires all renter vehicles to park on the STR property at a ratio of at least one space per four renters. On-street and right-of-way parking is…

Under Development Code Section 84.28.060, sleeping occupancy is set by room size (70 sq ft for one person, +50 sq ft per additional person), then capped by unit size and parcel acreage…

A San Bernardino County short-term rental permit can be revoked outright once it has been suspended twice within a rolling 24-month period, under County Code § 84.28.100(a)(4). The…

Airbnb, Vrbo and similar hosting platforms must collect and remit transient occupancy tax, disclose listing data to the County on request, and display the STR permit number for every…

STR owners in unincorporated San Bernardino County must answer complaint calls within 30 minutes and reach the property in person within one hour, 24 hours a day.

Unincorporated San Bernardino County requires a current STR permit before any dwelling can be rented short-term, capped at one or two per parcel.

Short-term rental renters in unincorporated San Bernardino County must pay the county's 7% Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax on top of STR permit application and annual renewal fees set…

California requires hosting platforms to warn hosts to check their lease and insurance before listing (Business and Professions Code 22592), and AB 537 requires short-term lodging…

Redlands adopts the 2025 California Plumbing Code by reference as its plumbing code and requires a permit for plumbing work, with local amendments on sewer availability distance and…

Redlands adopts the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code as its Green Building Code, making every mandatory measure in that state code, from water efficiency to construction…

Redlands requires an automatic fire sprinkler system throughout every building with a Group R fire area, covering apartments, hotels, single-family and duplex homes and residential…

Redlands adopts the 2025 California Electrical Code by reference and requires an electrical permit for most work, banning residential electric fences outright while requiring a permit…

In Redlands, California, no property owner or authorized agent may begin erecting, constructing, reconstructing, moving, converting or adding to any building without first securing a…

Redlands, California amends the California Building Code's administrative chapter at City Code section 15.04.020 to run its own inspection process: work found underway without a permit…

Redlands requires every licensed family daycare home to carry a current state license, notify police of its capacity, pass annual fire inspections, and stay at least 300 feet from two…

California Labor Code 7300-7323 and Title 8 CCR 3000+ require annual elevator inspections by Cal/OSHA in San Bernardino County, with permits to operate and licensed elevator…

In Redlands' R-1 Single-Family Residential District, Redlands City Code sections 18.44.130 through 18.44.150 set a front yard of 25 to 40 feet, side yards of 5 feet on one side and 10…

Redlands City Code section 18.44.120 caps buildings and structures in the R-1 Single-Family Residential District at two and one-half stories or thirty five feet, whichever governs…

Redlands caps structural lot coverage in the A-1 Agricultural District at ten percent of total lot area under section 18.20.110 of the zoning code. Smaller legal nonconforming lots…

Redlands requires anyone conducting the business of pawnbroker within city limits to pay a semiannual business license tax of $50.00, separate from any license needed to sell the goods…

Redlands requires every massage establishment owner and technician to hold current California Massage Therapy Council certification, and any owner holding more than 5% of the business…

Redlands has no separate tobacco retailer license, but chapter 8.54 bans tobacco vending machines outright, requires point-of-sale age warning signs, and forces every retailer besides…

Redlands requires an adult oriented business regulatory permit from the chief of police before operating, and confines adult businesses to the C-M, M-2 and I-P zones and part of the…

Redlands regulates non-consent towing through its police department's rotational tow program under City Code Chapter 5.80. Any tow truck operator who wants police-directed collision…

Redlands requires anyone who buys or sells secondhand bicycles, jewelry, precious metals or firearms as a business to keep a police-inspectable record of every transaction on a…

Redlands allows a business to run from a house only as a permitted "home occupation" under City Code Chapter 18.160, and the criteria in Section 18.160.020 effectively rule out a…

San Bernardino County requires every tattoo, piercing and permanent-makeup studio to register annually with the Department of Public Health under Code Section 16.0213B(h) and pay set…

Redlands Municipal Code Chapter 18.18 prohibits marijuana dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, and delivery in every zoning district and specific plan in the city, including…

California Business and Professions Code 26054 requires licensed cannabis businesses to sit at least 600 feet from schools, daycares, and youth centers; San Bernardino cities often…

Adults 21 and older may grow up to six cannabis plants per private residence in San Bernardino County, but unincorporated areas require indoor cultivation inside a fully enclosed…

Health and Safety Code section 11362.2 grants every adult 21 or older the statewide right to cultivate up to six cannabis plants indoors, and bars local governments from completely…

Redlands' Quality of Life Department enforces Municipal Code chapter 8.04, which declares specific conditions public nuisances, from fire-hazard weeds and refuse to graffiti, wrecked…

Redlands closes its public parks between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. without the Director's permission, with posted signs setting out the hours and the penalty, and the Director may adjust…

Redlands bars minors under 18 from public places between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM under City Code section 9.24.020, with an earlier 8:00 PM start near the downtown Market Night area. Nine…

Redlands prohibits discharging anything other than stormwater into its separate storm drain system, bans illicit connections outright, and enforces the rule with civil penalties up to…

Redlands requires anyone grading a construction site to hold a permit under Redlands City Code Section 15.04.070 and to actively prevent erosion, flooding and mud or debris runoff onto…

Redlands requires habitable buildings in its High and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones to maintain three defensible space zones out to 100 feet: Zone Zero (0-5 feet…

Redlands requires a floodplain development permit before any construction begins in a mapped Special Flood Hazard Area. The Chief Building Official, acting as floodplain administrator…

Redlands requires new residential construction and substantial improvements in a mapped special flood hazard area to elevate the lowest floor, including any basement, at least two feet…

Redlands warehouses and logistics distribution centers must post anti-idling signs enforcing a five-minute limit on diesel truck engine idling at entrances and dock areas, tying the…

California Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards mandate cool-roof reflectance values for new and re-roofed buildings in San Bernardino County climate zones 10, 14, 15, and 16…

The California Coastal Act, Public Resources Code sections 30000 through 30900, requires Coastal Development Permits for nearly all work in the coastal zone and gives the Coastal…

Student films still need a Redlands filming permit, but the city waives the permit fee entirely for productions made by an individual currently enrolled at an accredited college or…

Commercial filming, videotaping and still photography anywhere in Redlands outside an established studio requires a permit from the Film Permit Officer before shooting begins. Private…

Closing or temporarily using a County road for filming requires a separate, non-refundable road encroachment permit from the Transportation and Flood Control Department, arranged…

Redlands bans food vending vehicles outright from 16 named downtown street segments, including State Street, Citrus Avenue and Redlands Boulevard, and from any single-family…

Redlands requires stationary sidewalk vendors to hold a business license and $1 million in liability insurance, and bars them entirely from residential zones. In commercial and…

San Bernardino County requires DEHS permits for mobile food facilities and nonpermanent food operations, plus mandatory commissary servicing and monthly location schedules submitted to…

Redlands limits each individual or household to three yard, garage, patio or rummage sales per twelve-month period, capping each sale at three consecutive days or two consecutive…

Redlands designates landmarks, historic properties and historic or scenic districts under City Code Chapter 2.62. Once the city council designates a resource, an owner needs a…

Redlands bans camping and storing personal property on public property, streets, sidewalks and unfenced lots citywide, with a 24-hour removal notice, impoundment, and a 90-day disposal…

County Code Section 28.0903 bars sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing personal property on unincorporated San Bernardino County streets, sidewalks, alleyways, trails, and county…

Redlands charges a 10% transient occupancy tax on rent paid by any guest staying 30 consecutive days or less in a hotel, motel, inn, or similar lodging. Operators collect it at the…

Redlands' landscape ordinance defines invasive plant species and directs landscape design plans away from them, pointing to the California Invasive Plant Council's list, but the code…

Redlands classifies electric bicycles into Class 1, 2 and 3 by motor assistance and top speed, then bars unsafe operation on any public property or private property open to the public…

Redlands requires cyclists riding in a bicycle lane or on a bicycle path to ride single file, except where the California Vehicle Code allows otherwise. The city code also sets…

A low-speed vehicle in California may not be driven on any roadway with a speed limit above 35 miles per hour. Vehicle Code section 21260 permits it to cross a faster road only where…

Redlands City Code section 8.06.090(J)(3) makes it unlawful to sound or permit the sounding of an exterior burglar or fire alarm, or a motor vehicle burglar alarm, unless it is…

Redlands City Code section 8.06.090(M) caps loudspeaker, musical instrument or other sound in any place of public entertainment at 95 dBA, measured on a sound meter's slow response at…

Redlands Municipal Code section 8.06.100 makes it unlawful to run residential air conditioning or air handling equipment loud enough to exceed the exterior noise limits in Table 1 of…

Standby and portable generators in unincorporated San Bernardino County must meet Title 8 limits (45 dBA night residential). PSPS and emergency use is exempt. SCAQMD Rule 1470 permits…

In unincorporated San Bernardino County, a car stereo or speaker's rhythmic bass alone is enough to prove a plainly-audible noise violation: no decibel meter needed.

Redlands bans billboards outright rather than regulating how they may be lit. City Code section 15.36.140 lists billboard signs among prohibited sign types citywide, so no off-premise…

Redlands requires agritourism lighting fixtures in the A-1 Agricultural District to be fully shielded, capped at 11:00 p.m. except for limited safety exceptions, and adopted under…

Redlands caps outdoor lighting spillover from agritourism uses in the A-1 Agricultural District at one-half of a foot-candle measured at the property line. Section 18.20.200(E)(9)(a)…

Redlands declares weeds, dry grasses and combustible rubbish on private lots, including vacant parcels, a public nuisance whenever they create a fire hazard. The fire chief issues a…

Redlands declares poorly maintained property a public nuisance under City Code § 8.04.190 when it is out of harmony with neighboring maintenance standards, and separately adopts the…

In Redlands, California, pedestrians in the central traffic district or any business district must cross the roadway at a marked or unmarked crosswalk. Crossing mid-block outside those…

Redlands does not ban smoking citywide in parks or on patios. Its one outdoor smoking prohibition covers the city's own Market Night footprint on State Street and part of Orange…

Redlands bars school-age minors from loitering, idling, wandering, strolling or playing in public places on school days between 8:30 AM and 2:30 PM under City Code section 9.24.040…

Redlands bans aggressive panhandling in any public place under City Code Chapter 9.10, adopted by Ordinance 2747 in 2011 and tightened by Ordinance 2807 in 2014. Section 9.10.030…

Redlands makes it unlawful to drink or consume any intoxicating liquor on any public or private street, highway, road, alley or lane within the city under City Code section 9.16.020. A…

Redlands makes it a crime to urinate or defecate in public under City Code section 9.16.040, adopted by Ordinance 2683 in 2007. The law covers any location outside a restroom, bathroom…

Redlands' Social Host Liability ordinance, City Code Chapter 9.30 (Ordinance 2780, 2013), makes it unlawful to host, permit or allow a gathering where a minor drinks alcohol or uses…

Redlands bans skateboarding, roller skating and bicycling on any sidewalk within a business district, and bans all three, with a law enforcement exception, inside any municipal parking…

Redlands City Code section 18.18.030(D) makes it unlawful to smoke or ingest marijuana in any public place anywhere in the city. The prohibition sits inside the same chapter that bans…

Redlands requires anyone possessing a rodent-infested place to act immediately and in good faith to exterminate the rodents by poisoning, trapping, or other appropriate means once they…

Redlands has no landlord-specific bedbug disclosure law. Instead, Municipal Code section 8.04.070 makes it unlawful to maintain any building, lot, vehicle or premises in a manner that…

After every routine inspection, the county Health Official posts a letter grade card (A, B, or C) at the food facility. Operating without the card posted, or defacing or removing it…

San Bernardino County requires every food handler to carry an unexpired food handler card or state food safety certificate before working, under County Code § 33.0409(b). A new…

Redlands requires 60 days' advance written notice before a mobilehome park owner can put through a formula space-rent adjustment under the city's rent-stabilization chapter. The…

Redlands does not regulate apartment or house rents, but it has run a formal rent-stabilization program for mobilehome park spaces since 1981. Chapter 5.48 caps annual space-rent…

Redlands requires landlords to hold a government-approved demolition or remodeling permit in hand, and attach it to the termination notice, before evicting a tenant under the state's…

For covered units in unincorporated San Bernardino County, no-fault evictions are limited to AB 1482's enumerated reasons: owner or family move-in, substantial remodel, government…

Unincorporated San Bernardino County has not adopted a local relocation-assistance ordinance for displaced tenants. Only the relocation payment required by California AB 1482 for…

San Bernardino County rentals follow California Civil Code 1950.5, which limits security deposits to one month's rent for both furnished and unfurnished units and requires return…

California requires landlords to include or attach an AB 1482 disclosure in every covered lease and lease renewal, informing tenants of the rent cap and just-cause protections in plain…

Licensed rental dwelling units in unincorporated San Bernardino County must meet Fire and Building Code standards, stay nuisance-free, and allow county inspection or risk losing their…

Unincorporated San Bernardino County does not require general rental-property registration. However, short-term rentals require county permits and Transient Occupancy Tax registration.

The Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino administers Housing Choice Vouchers across SBC, inspecting units for HUD habitability standards and paying the subsidy portion…

California evictions run through the unlawful detainer process. Under Code of Civil Procedure § 1161, nonpayment requires a 3-day notice to pay rent or quit (excluding weekends and…

California Civil Code § 1954 limits when a landlord may enter a rented home. Except in emergencies, abandonment, or with tenant consent, the landlord must give reasonable written…

California sets no fixed dollar or percentage cap on rent late fees, but a late fee in a residential lease is treated as liquidated damages. Under Civil Code § 1671, such a fee is…

To end a California month-to-month tenancy, a tenant gives 30 days' written notice. A landlord gives 30 days if the tenant has lived there under a year, or 60 days if a year or more…

California adverse possession requires five years of continuous, open, hostile possession AND payment of all property taxes during that period under Code of Civil Procedure § 325. A…

Redlands' A-1 Agricultural District, Chapter 18.20 of the zoning code, requires a five-acre minimum lot and caps density at one dwelling per two and one-half acres to preserve land…

The California Right to Farm Act under Civil Code 3482.5 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits brought by neighbors who moved in after farming began. The…

Anyone who wants to excavate, build a facility, or place an obstruction in a Redlands street or sidewalk must first get a permit from the city engineer under the Street Safety…

Blocking free passage on any Redlands street or sidewalk without a permit is unlawful under City Code Section 12.12.040. The street superintendent weighs pedestrian and vehicle…

Under CA Streets and Highways Code 5610, adjacent property owners in unincorporated San Bernardino County are responsible for maintaining and repairing sidewalks fronting their…

Redlands caps freeway facing signs at 24 square feet and requires a mandatory sign program for any unified center building that backs onto a freeway with no public entrance on that…

Redlands caps window signs on commercial businesses at 25% of total window area, rising to 50% between November 15 and January 10. No permit is required, but the sign must be kept in…

In unincorporated San Bernardino County, holiday lighting is exempt from the county's outdoor lighting rules only if it goes up no more than 30 days before a holiday and comes down…

Garage sale signs can't go on utility poles, streetlights, or traffic signs, and can only go up one day before the sale and must come down one day after it ends.

Political signs in unincorporated San Bernardino County must come down within 30 days after the election and stay under 8 square feet in residential zones.

Redlands built a streamlined, nondiscretionary permit track for small residential rooftop solar under Chapter 18.172, adopted to comply with the state Solar Rights Act and AB 2188…

Redlands must issue a small residential rooftop solar permit the same day for over-the-counter applications, or within one to three business days for electronic ones, once the…

California Civil Code 714 (Solar Rights Act) prohibits HOAs in San Bernardino County from banning solar panels, limiting restrictions to reasonable placement that does not…

Redlands requires every door-to-door solicitor, peddler and itinerant salesman to register with the police chief and carry a certificate of registration before working in the city…

Redlands defines a single 'City Event Permit' umbrella covering special event permits, temporary use permits, film permits and park reservations, and uses it to bar sidewalk vendors…

Redlands lets the police chief or city engineer temporarily close a street for celebrations, parades, local special events and similar purposes when the closure is necessary for the…

Redlands requires anyone operating an outdoor music, dance or similar festival to get a city license before advertising or selling tickets. The application costs a nonrefundable one…

Redlands requires a police-issued permit before any parade or public assembly that obstructs street, sidewalk or parking-facility traffic. The Chief of Police administers applications…

Any Redlands park gathering of 50 or more people needs a formal permit from the Director, filed 2 weeks to 90 days ahead, with conditions covering fees, security, insurance and cleanup…

Redlands classifies every business operating in the city under Chapter 5.08 of the City Code, and the classification sets which rate schedule applies. A business not otherwise…

Redlands requires commercial bins and roll-off or compactor boxes to sit in a location the solid waste director approves, easily reachable by collection trucks, and never inside a…

Redlands requires every property to subscribe to solid waste, organic waste, and recycling collection services, and residential customers with automated service must keep recyclables…

Redlands residents in the curbside recycling program must set recyclables out in the city-provided container at the designated collection point by 6:00 A.M. on their regular collection…

Under SB 1383, Redlands single-family households must subscribe to three-container organic waste collection and sort designated food scraps and yard waste into the green container…

Redlands requires properties enrolled in its green waste program to put yard trimmings only in the designated green container under City Code section 13.64.240. Owners who want out…

Every occupied property in Redlands must subscribe to city trash, organics and recycling service under City Code section 13.64.070. Occupancy alone is legal proof that waste is…

Large discarded items like furniture and appliances cannot go in Redlands' regular trash, green waste or recycling carts under City Code section 13.64.280. Residents and businesses…

Redlands guarantees at least weekly trash, recycling and green waste pickup for every property under City Code section 13.64.130. Restaurants, schools with food-service cafeterias, and…

Redlands dictates exactly where trash, recycling and green waste carts go on collection day under City Code section 13.64.180: at the curb or parkway, never on a sidewalk, at least…

Dumping, placing or burying solid waste, green waste, recyclables or any other deleterious or offensive substance on any lot, street, alley or waterway in Redlands is unlawful under…

In unincorporated San Bernardino County, an official holiday that interrupts the normal seven day collection cycle lets the refuse collector postpone pickup until the next working day…

Redlands protects historically or culturally significant public trees by designating them 'landmark trees,' a class of historic resource cross-referenced to City Code Chapter 2.62…

Redlands controls what may be planted in the parkway, the strip of ground between the sidewalk and the curb, through a master street tree plan the city council adopts by resolution…

Redlands automatically protects certain public trees without any designation hearing. City Code Section 12.52.110 states that all public trees meeting the 'native tree' or 'specimen…

Redlands prohibits customers from failing to repair controllable leaks once the city has declared a Stage II water conservation alert. The duty sits inside the city's tiered mandatory…

Redlands City Code Chapter 13.58 makes recycled water the required primary supply for commercial and industrial customers whenever it is available and feasible, and lets the Municipal…

Redlands caps turf at 25% of the landscape area for qualifying residential projects and bans turf entirely in non-residential landscaping under the city's water efficient landscape…

Redlands implements the state Density Bonus Law through Zoning Code Chapter 18.228, granting projects of five or more units a guaranteed density increase, up to 35 percent, plus…

California Civil Code 5600-5740 governs HOA assessments in San Bernardino County, requiring annual budget disclosure, limits on increases without member vote, and specific collection…

California Civil Code 5900-5965 requires HOAs in San Bernardino County to offer internal dispute resolution (IDR) and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) before filing litigation over…

California's Davis-Stirling Act gives every HOA member the right to inspect and copy association records under Civil Code § 5205. Boards must produce current-year records within 10…

California overrides HOA governing documents on several owner protections. The Davis-Stirling Act and related Civil Code sections bar HOAs from prohibiting solar systems, U.S. flag…

California voids any HOA governing-document clause that effectively bans or unreasonably restricts a clothesline or drying rack in an owner's exclusive-use backyard. Civil Code Section…

Civil Code section 4735 voids any HOA rule that bans low-water plants, turf replacement, or artificial turf, and bars fines for cutting back watering during a declared drought…

Civil Code § 4745 voids any HOA covenant or governing-document rule that prohibits or unreasonably restricts installing an EV charging station in an owner's unit or designated parking…

Civil Code § 4705 bars every California homeowners association from limiting a member's display of the United States flag on their own lot or within their exclusive-use common area…

California law caps homeowners association fines at $100 per violation or the amount listed in the association's published penalty schedule, whichever is less. Civil Code section 5850…

A California homeowners association cannot foreclose on a member’s home over unpaid dues until the delinquent assessments alone reach $1,800, or until the assessments secured by the…

Civil Code § 4741 bars every California homeowners association from adopting or enforcing a rule that prohibits, or unreasonably restricts, renting out a separate interest, and sets a…

California SB 54, the California Values Act, limits how San Bernardino County Sheriff and other local agencies may cooperate with federal immigration authorities in unincorporated…

California SB 793, upheld by Proposition 31 in 2022, bans the retail sale of most flavored tobacco products and flavor enhancers across San Bernardino County, including menthol…

California prohibits sale of tobacco and vapor products to anyone under 21 statewide under Business and Professions Code 22958, enacted by SBX2-7 in 2016. The Tobacco 21 standard…

San Bernardino County does not set a local minimum wage, so the California statewide rate of 16.50 dollars per hour applies in 2026 to most employers in unincorporated areas, with…

California requires most employers, including warehouse and logistics operators in the Inland Empire portion of San Bernardino County, to provide at least 40 hours of paid sick leave…

California AB 1276 prohibits restaurants and food delivery platforms in San Bernardino County from automatically including plastic utensils, condiments, and napkins; items must be…

California AB 1884 bars full-service restaurants in San Bernardino County and statewide from automatically providing plastic straws; customers must specifically request them at…

California prohibits grocery stores and large retailers from providing single-use plastic carryout bags under Public Resources Code 42280-42288, enacted by SB 270 (2014) and ratified…

California restricts expanded polystyrene food containers statewide through SB 54 (2022) packaging requirements under Public Resources Code 42040-42081. The law mandates that…

San Bernardino County bans solid fuel burning outdoor fireplaces, chimineas, barbeques, and fire pits at short-term rentals in the Mountain Region, a fire-safety rule enforced through…

San Bernardino County Code § 26.0101 makes it unlawful, in the unincorporated area, to keep, maintain, conduct, control, have charge of, or even be present at or visit any house, room…

California Penal Code § 326.5 lets only tax-exempt nonprofits, mobilehome park associations, senior groups, and school-affiliated charities run bingo, and only under a local city or…

California law exempts private home card games from gambling regulation entirely. Penal Code § 337j(e)(2)(D) excludes any card game played in a private home or residence from the…

California has no legal sports betting, in stores or online. Penal Code section 337a criminalizes bookmaking, pool-selling, and placing or accepting any bet on the result of a sporting…

County Environmental Health Services inspects every apartment house, hotel, and motel in unincorporated San Bernardino County before issuing the Certificate of Occupancy required to…

The county Development Code sets stationary-source noise limits, measured at the nearest noise-sensitive property line. A data center next to homes cannot exceed 55 dB(A) daytime or 45…

California is an all-party consent state for audio recording. All parties to a confidential conversation must consent to being recorded under Penal Code §632. Video recording in public…

California regulates concealed carry weapons licenses statewide under Penal Code 26150 through 26225. Senate Bill 2 (2023) imposes uniform sensitive-place restrictions and applicant…

California preempts most local firearm regulation under Government Code 53071 and Penal Code 25605, reserving licensing, registration, and manufacture authority to the state. However…

California broadly prohibits open carry of firearms statewide under Penal Code 25850 (loaded firearms in public) and Penal Code 26350 (open carry of unloaded handguns). The prohibition…

California prohibits carrying loaded firearms in vehicles statewide under Penal Code 25400 and 25850. Unloaded handguns transported in private vehicles must be in a locked container or…

Sobriety checkpoints are lawful in California and stopping at one is a statutory obligation, not a courtesy. Vehicle Code § 2814.2(a) requires a driver to stop and submit to a sobriety…

California is one of the few states that answers this by statute rather than by case law alone. Penal Code § 148(g) says that photographing or making an audio or video recording of a…

California has no general stop-and-identify statute. The old Penal Code § 647(e), which required a person lawfully detained to give "credible and reliable" identification, was held…

California has no statute that requires you to consent to a search of your car, and none that requires an officer to warn you that you may refuse. What the Legislature and the voters…

California works from a closed list: Vehicle Code section 24003 says no vehicle may carry any lamp or illuminating device not required or permitted by the code, so an accessory light…

California measures dash cam placement in square inches. Vehicle Code section 26708(b)(13) lets a video event recorder occupy a seven-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield…

Lane splitting is lawful in California. Vehicle Code section 21658.1, added by AB 51 in 2016, defines it as driving a motorcycle with two wheels in contact with the ground between rows…

California does not let you put a cover over your license plate. Vehicle Code section 5201(c) allows exactly two things: a full car cover on a lawfully parked vehicle, and a license…

No section of the California Vehicle Code makes it an offense for a private motorist to own, carry or use a radar detector. The prohibition in Vehicle Code section 28150 reaches only…

California permits metal studded tires only between November 1 and April 30, and only where the studs are tungsten carbide or another suitable material and the metal touching the road…

California never publishes a "legal VLT" for front side windows because it does not permit aftermarket darkening there at all. Vehicle Code section 26708(d) allows only clear…