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Bellflower adopts 2025 building code updates, including energy and wildfire provisions
Summary
Council approved urgency Ordinance 14‑50 and Ordinance 14‑49 adopting 2025 California building code updates with local amendments addressing liquefaction, roof covering classifications, wildland‑urban interface requirements, and new energy provisions for pools and commercial kitchens.
The Bellflower City Council on Sept. 22 adopted an urgency ordinance (No. 14‑50) and a companion ordinance (No. 14‑49) to bring the city’s municipal code into alignment with the 2025 editions of California’s building, residential, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, energy and fire codes. The ordinances include several local amendments aimed at addressing Bellflower’s site‑specific conditions.
Alan Cook, the city’s building official, briefed the council during a second‑reading presentation and said the 2025 code cycle requires jurisdictions to adopt or amend local modifications and submit them to the state by a statutory deadline. If adopted, the updated provisions will take effect Jan. 1, 2026. Cook summarized key local changes: a permanent…
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