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Board approves code updates, ag fees and abatement costs; adopts clean-energy roadmap
Summary
At the Nov. 4 meeting the board voted on a set of administrative and regulatory items: adoption of the 2025 California Building Standards Code with existing local amendments, an agricultural fee schedule update, two property-abatement cost confirmations, and adoption of a Clean Energy Roadmap for existing buildings.
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors handled several administrative matters on Nov. 4, 2025, taking final action on agenda items affecting county operations, codes and planning.
Adoption of 2025 California Building Standards Code (Ordinance 2025-19) The board unanimously adopted Ordinance 2025‑19, bringing the county into alignment with the 2025 California Building Standards Code while retaining pre‑existing local amendments that exceed the statewide minimums. Jason Crapo of the county’s Department of Conservation and Development told the board the county’s existing local amendments — particularly those responding to seismic risk, unstable soils and electric-vehicle (EV) readiness — would be carried forward. The county’s current EV-charging amendment remains more stringent than the statewide baseline and will continue to require at…
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