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San Luis Obispo Council moves to introduce 2025 building and fire code ordinances, including limited local amendments
Summary
At a city council meeting, staff recommended and councilmembers voted 5-0 to introduce two ordinances to adopt the 2025 California building and fire codes with limited local amendments addressing the Wildland‑Urban Interface (WUI) and energy retrofit rules; second reading is scheduled for December.
San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously to introduce two ordinances that would adopt the 2025 California Building Standards Code and the 2025 California Energy Code with a small set of local amendments.
Community Development Director Timmy Twain told the council staff's recommendation "is generally a pretty routine item that the city council considers every few years" and outlined that state law AB 130 establishes a moratorium on many local residential amendments through June 2031, with narrow exceptions for emergency standards, home‑hardening, grandfathered local standards, and general‑plan alignment. The staff recommendation seeks to readopt existing local standards that qualify under those exceptions and add two limited local amendments: clarification of energy retrofit…
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