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Stanton council adopts 2025 California building and fire codes with local amendments
Summary
By a 5‑0 vote, the Stanton City Council approved ordinance 11‑64 to adopt the 2025 California Building Code and Fire Code effective Jan. 1, 2026; staff said local amendments were retained and that the ordinance does not change separately passed housing legislation.
The Stanton City Council on Sept. 23 adopted an ordinance updating the city’s building and fire codes to the 2025 editions of the California Building Code and California Fire Code, with previously adopted local amendments.
City staff said the ordinance (introduced at first reading at the prior meeting) updates Title 16 (building code) and Title 17 (fire code) in the Stanton Municipal Code to reflect the state’s 2025 code cycle and the city’s local amendments. Staff advised the council that the new code would take effect Jan. 1, 2026, and that projects submitted for plan check on or after Jan. 1 must comply with the new codes while projects currently in plan check may remain under the older code.
During the presentation, staff clarified that some state housing legislation is implemented through separate zoning and land‑use ordinances and not by the building code update; changes such as accessory‑dwelling‑unit rules or SB 9 matters require separate city ordinances and are outside the scope of this code adoption.
The council opened and closed the public hearing with no public comments and unanimously approved the ordinance in roll‑call votes, 5‑0.
The ordinance keeps the city’s local amendments intact, and staff said the change is primarily a consolidation of the state code updates with the city’s previously adopted local amendments and does not immediately change zoning or housing‑related policy language.
