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Council approves consent calendar including adoption of 2025 California building and fire codes; residents urge wildfire evacuation review
Summary
The council approved the consent calendar, which included second‑reading/adoption items updating Chula Vista Municipal Code chapters to incorporate the 2025 California building, residential, mechanical, electrical, energy, plumbing, fire and Wildland Urban Interface codes; public commenters asked for item 5.3 to be pulled citing concerns about removal of the War/Ward Park equestrian arena as a large‑animal evacuation site.
Chula Vista — The City Council unanimously approved the consent calendar on Nov. 18, which among routine minutes and housekeeping included a set of ordinances to incorporate the 2025 California building, residential, mechanical, electrical, energy and fire codes into the Chula Vista Municipal Code and to adopt a new Wildland Urban Interface code.
The clerk read multiple headings for item 5.3 and its subparts — amendments to Chula Vista Municipal Code chapters adopting the 2025 California technical building and safety codes and local amendments — and asked whether any council member wished to pull an item. No council member moved to pull the items after public comment. The consent calendar passed unanimously.
Several public commenters asked the council to pull item 5.3 for separate discussion. Longtime equestrian advocate Daryl Jett requested the item be pulled to review potential loss of the Ward Park Equestrian Arena and to confirm coordination with the Bonita Sunnyside (Bonita‑Sunnyside) Fire Protection District. Jett told the council the arena served as an evacuation and shelter site for large animals during prior wildfires and that, in his account, the local fire authority had not been consulted about changes to that facility. “There is a serious wildfire evacuation issue that the public has not been informed of and deserves open discussion,” Jett said. Other speakers raised unrelated consent items including investments, debt collection contracting, and Meals on Wheels lease amendments.
Madam Clerk read the consent items in full and asked for a vote; the council voted to approve the consent calendar.
The consent action includes multiple code adoptions and repeals as read into the record (e.g., amendments to chapters incorporating the 2025 California Building Code, California Fire Code and a new municipal chapter 15.38 for the Wildland Urban Interface Code). The council did not take separate action at this meeting on Jett’s evacuation concerns; the comments were entered into the public record for staff follow‑up.
