Permit forms, guidelines, and submittal requirements

Checklists for permit submittal: 

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A

Address changes [PDF] (PB-014)
Accessible parking stalls, calculating [PDF]
Accessory buildings [PDF]
Access compliance [PDF]
Adhesive Concrete Anchors [PDF] (PB-066)
After hours permit application [PDF]
Alcohol beverage service guidelines and application form [PDF]
Alcohol beverage service permit supplemental form [PDF]
Alternate materials and construction methods [PDF]
Amendments to 2013 California & residential building code [PDF] (IB-047)
Appeal form [PDF]
Auto sales:
Awning and canopy permit guidelines and application form [PDF]

 

B

Backflow testing companies (certified) [PDF]
Banks, distribution of plans to the public [PDF] (PB-009)
Banner permits [PDF] (PB-019)
Banner, temporary sign application form [PDF]
Bonding options [PDF]
Boring near trees [PDF]
Building permits:
Building valuation [PDF] (IB-042)

C

Canceled work procedure & submittal requirements [PDF] (IB-028)
Car washes, temporary [PDF] (PB- 010)
Carports, calculation of floor area for design review [PDF] (PB-005)
Changing contractors of record [PDF]
Charitable solicitors [PDF] (PB-013)
Charity car washes [PDF] (PB-010)
Christmas tree and pumpkin lot permit application form [PDF]
Clean Water Program
Commercial and multifamily building permit requirements:
 Commercial solicitors [PDF] (PB-103)
 Compact parking spaces [PDF] (PB-021)
 Complainant information & confidentiality [PDF] (PB-018)
 Conditional use permits, nonconforming [PDF] (PB-017)
 Consultants list, building inspections and plan review [PDF]
 Contact information, code enforcement [PDF] (PB-018)
 Continuous tie down systems, shear wall [PDF] (PB-028)
 Corrugated stainless steel tubing for gas piping [PDF] (PB-032)
 Cottage food operation as a home occupation [PDF] (PB-063)
 Credit card authorization form [PDF]

D

Density bonus application form [PDF] 
Demolition:
Design Review:
Disability access:
 Discretionary review process [PDF]
 DMV verification, auto sales [PDF] (PB-011)
 Door-to-door sales [PDF] (PB-013)
 Drainage design standards [PDF]

E 

Elevator lobbies with security doors [PDF]
Encroachment permit application [PDF]
Encroachment permit insurance requirements [PDF]
Environmental assessment application form [PDF]
Electric vehicle charging station submittal requirements [PDF] (IB-048)
Electrical load worksheet [PDF]
Elevation certificates (includes instructions) [PDF]
Engineering Application with SOU [PDF]

F

Finding work associated with canceled permits procedure & submittal requirements [PDF] (IB-028)
Fences:
Foundations & soils investigations [PDF] (TB-010)
Fuel or gas line sizing [PDF]

G

Garage bay doors, signs [PDF] (PB-002)
Gas piping, use of corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) [PDF] (PB-032)
Growth management program [PDF]

H 

Hillside performance standards 
Home occupation:

 

I

 Indirect waste receptor requirements [PDF] (PB-022)
 Inspections, exceptions to special [PDF] (PB-023)
 Internet auto sales [PDF] (PB-011)
 Itinerant merchants [PDF] (PB-013)

 

J

K

L

Landscape water conservation [PDF]
Leafleting [PDF] (PB-013)
Legalizing unapproved construction [PDF]
Lifts, stairway lifts in R-1 & R-3 occupancies [PDF] (PB-033)
 Lot lines:

M

Massage services

Master fee schedule fy22 & fy23 (fees & charges) [PDF]
Measure A (1985) initiative [PDF]
Measure A (1985) interpretation and procedures [PDF]
Medical offices, parking [PDF] (PB-003)
Multifamily and commercial building permit requirements
Municipal Code
Municipal Code - Planners' Cheat Sheet [PDF]

N

Nonconforming uses:
Notice of appeal [PDF] (file with City Clerk)

O

Occupancy, maximum for sleeping purposes [PDF] (PB-024)
Outside agency contact list [PDF]



P

Paint color changes [PDF] (PB-016)
Parking:
Parkland dedication requirements
PCB condition of approval packet [PDF]
Pedestrian safety assessment report [PDF] (2008)
Permit types determination guidelines [PDF] (PB-002) 
Personal information, code enforcement [PDF] (PB-018)
Plan Check: 
Planning applications:
 Plans, banks [PDF] (PB-009)
 Plastic (ABS / PVC) for drain, waste, & vent (DWV) piping [PDF]
 Plumbing fixture self-certification [PDF]
 Pools and spas [PDF]
 Preliminary Review Team application form [PDF]
 Professional design limitations [PDF] (PB-047)
 Public art
 Pumpkin and tree lot permit application form [PDF]

Q

R

Reasonable accommodation request application form [PDF]
Records requests:
Relative hazard categories & typical uses [PDF]
Retaining walls [PDF]
Retaining Walls Supporting Buildings or Loaded by Buildings [PDF]
Reuse of residential stair and deck handrails and guardrails [PDF] (PB-038)

S

Sandy Loam specification test 1 - mineral components [PDF]
Sandy Loam specification test 2 - compost [PDF]
SB 330 preliminary application form [PDF]
Seasonal pumpkin and tree lot application form [PDF]
Second family units
Second units:
Security doors in elevator lobbies [PDF] (PB-037)
Seismic design category--2013 California building and residential code [PDF] (IB-0404)
Seismic upgrades, structural alterations and voluntary [PDF] (PB-036)
Shear wall continuous tie down systems [PDF] (PB-028)
Short term promotions [PDF] (PB-019)
Sidewalk dining (tables and chairs) permit application form [PDF]
Sidewalk sales [PDF] (PB-013)
Signs:
Single-family home building permit requirements:
 Site development:
 Smoking [PDF] (PB-012)
 Solicitors [PDF] (PB-013)
 Special events permit application form [PDF]
 Special inspections companies review & approval [PDF] (PB-058)
 Special inspections program and observation form [PDF]
 Special inspections, exceptions [PDF] (PB-023)
 Stairway lifts in R-1 & R-3 occupancies [PDF] (PB-033)
 Standard plans [PDF]
 Stormwater pollution prevention
 Street design standards [PDF]
 Subdivisions:
 Supplemental contact information form [PDF]
 Suspended systems for acoustical tiles [PDF] (PB-027)

T

Temporary activity permit application form [PDF] 
Temporary sign / temporary banner application form [PDF]
Time-of-sale residential weatherization disclosure [PDF]
Title 24 access regulations, request for exceptions form [PDF]
Tobacco shops [PDF] (PB-012)
Traffic and pedestrian control plans [PDF]
Traffic safety programs report [PDF] (2005)
Trash and storage areas [PDF]
Trees:

U

Unapproved construction, legalizing [PDF] (PB-025)
Utility service contact list [PDF]

 

V

Vendor carts [PDF] (PB-013)

W

 Waste management:
 Water heater requirements [PDF]
 Wireless communication facilities ordinance
 Work that does not require a permit [PDF] (PB-030)

 

X

Y

Z

Zoning ordinance