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Council Adopts 2025 California Building Standards with Local Amendments, Includes 2025 WUI Provisions
Summary
Thousand Oaks adopted the 2025 California Building Standards (Title 24) with local amendments and will adopt chapters 1, 2 and 5 of the 2025 Wildland‑Urban Interface code; council vote was 5–0.
Thousand Oaks City Council on Oct. 7 adopted the 2025 California Building Standards Code with local amendments, including portions of the 2025 Wildland‑Urban Interface (WUI) Code and the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code.
The council voted 5–0 to repeal and readopt multiple sections of the municipal code by reference to Title 24 (the California Code of Regulations) and to add chapters addressing the WUI code and pool and spa code. Building official Teo Franco presented the staff report and said the triennial state code update aligns local requirements with revised statewide standards for seismic safety, fire resilience, energy efficiency and green building provisions.
Why it matters: Adopting the 2025 codes ensures Thousand Oaks’ regulations match state law, reduces conflicts between local and state rules and brings the city into alignment with new wildfire‑resistant construction requirements consolidated in the 2025 WUI Code.
Franco told council the city is adopting chapters 1, 2 and 5 of the 2025 WUI Code (administration, definitions and construction provisions), which replace older CBC Chapter 7A and CRC R337, and clarified that chapters covering vegetation management and defensible space (chapters 3, 4 and 6) will be implemented and enforced by the Ventura County Fire Prevention Department through a separate county ordinance. Community development director Kelvin Parker was available to answer questions.
Council members asked whether the city had discretion to pick which state provisions to adopt; staff said the adoption is required and cited Assembly Bill 130, which the presenter described as establishing a statewide freeze on most local building code changes from Oct. 1, 2025 through June 1, 2031. Franco and Parker explained the local adoption provides clarity to designers and builders and ensures the city’s regulation is consistent with statewide requirements, including updated energy and green building standards and an appendix for tiny houses.
The ordinance read into the record adopted Title 24 of the 2025 California Code of Regulations, the 2025 California Wildland‑Urban Interface Code (chapters 1, 2 and 5), the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, and the 2025 California residential code appendix on tiny houses. The motion passed unanimously.
Next steps: Staff will publish the ordinance and update the municipal code and will coordinate with Ventura County Fire Prevention on future implementation of vegetation and defensible space provisions.
