To: Board of Supervisors
From: Lewis Broschard, Chief, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District
Report Title: Ordinance No. 2025-14, adopting the 2025 California Fire Code, with local amendments
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Acting in its capacity as the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and as the Board of Directors of the Crockett-Carquinez Fire Protection District and the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District:
1. INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 2025-14, adopting the 2025 California Fire Code, with local amendments, as the fire code within Contra Costa County, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, and the Crockett-Carquinez Fire Protection District; WAIVE reading; and FIX November 4, 2025 at the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors meeting at 9:00 a.m. as the hearing date for the proposed adoption of the ordinance.
2. DIRECT the Clerk of the Board to publish notice of the hearing pursuant to Government Code section 6066.
3. AUTHORIZE the preparation of an ordinance summary by County Counsel and the publication of the summary in accordance with Government Code section 25124.
4. DIRECT the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to post at its office, and each Fire District to post at its office, a copy of the full text of Ordinance No. 2025-14.
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS
The California Building Standards Commission has adopted and published the 2025 Building Standards Code, which includes the 2025 California Fire Code prepared and adopted by the State Fire Marshal. The statewide code becomes effective January 1, 2026.
Although the code applies statewide, Health and Safety Code sections 13869.7, 17958.5, and 18941.5 authorize a local jurisdiction to modify or change the statewide code and establish more restrictive standards if the jurisdiction finds that the modifications and changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or...
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