Pico Rivera, CA Swimming Pools & Spas: Pool Permits (2026)

Section 12.32.020 sits inside Chapter 12.32's Article I on Temporary Encroachment Permits, the same permit track the city uses for construction work that touches the street right-of-way. Because pool contractors routinely need the parkway or street for equipment staging, spoil storage, or pipe crossings, the code requires the applicant to secure this encroachment permit from the city engineer before that street-side work begins, and the city engineer notifies the chief building official once it issues. Section 12.32.030 gives the city engineer authority to write the time, manner, and safety-measure conditions directly into the permit, so requirements can differ by site: traffic control, fencing of excavations, hours of work.

Applicants also post a special deposit under Section 12.12.250 to cover the city's cost of barricades or of removing the encroachment if the permittee does not, with the amount set by council resolution rather than fixed in the code itself. Section 12.32.040 lets the city engineer draw on that deposit to cover its own remedial costs the moment any permit condition is violated, and if those costs use up the deposit, the city engineer notifies the permittee in writing and suspends the temporary encroachment permit until the required deposit balance is restored, halting work until the pool contractor pays back into the account.

This permit is separate from and additional to the building permit itself, which the chief building official issues under Title 15's adopted building code; a homeowner who begins pool excavation or material delivery in the public right-of-way without first taking this extra step has not satisfied Section 12.32.020, even with a valid building permit in hand.