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Big Bear Lake adopts 2025 California Building Standards Code; council cites snow-load and EV-charging impacts
Summary
The council unanimously adopted an ordinance to adopt the 2025 California Building Standards Code, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Staff and the city's contract building official highlighted stricter site-specific snow-load rules, expanded EV-charging requirements and other energy and wildfire-related updates.
Big Bear Lake's City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance to incorporate the 2025 edition of the California Building Standards Code into city regulations, a move staff said is necessary for the new codes to take effect locally on Jan. 1, 2026.
Andrew Mellon and Dan Chudi of Willdan Engineering told the council the statewide code cycle applies to cities across California and must be adopted to preserve existing local amendments. Chudi highlighted several changes the council should note: expanded electric-vehicle (EV) charger requirements for new construction (with a…
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