Permit forms, guidelines, and submittal requirements

Checklists for permit submittal: 

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A

Address changes (PB-014) 
Accessible parking stalls, calculating [PDF]
Accessory buildings [PDF]
Access compliance [PDF]
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:

B

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

C

Car washes, temporary [PDF] (PB- 010)
Carports, calculation of floor area for design review [PDF] (PB-005)
Changing contractors of record [PDF]
Charitable solicitors (PB-013)
Charity car washes (PB-010)
Christmas tree and pumpkin lot permit application form [PDF]
Clean Water Program
Commercial and multifamily building permit requirements:
 Commercial solicitors (PB-013)
 Community Clinics Providing Reproductive Services [PDF] (PB-079)
 Compact parking spaces [PDF] (PB-021)
 Complainant information & confidentiality [PDF] (PB-018)
 Conditional use permits, nonconforming (PB-017) 
 Contact information, code enforcement [PDF] (PB-018)
 Cottage food operation as a home occupation (PB-063)

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 (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]
Engineering Application with SOU [PDF]


F

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)

H 

Hillside performance standards 
Home occupation:

I

 Indirect waste receptor requirements [PDF] (PB-022)
 Inspection of substandard building [PDF] (PB-075)
 Internet auto sales [PDF] (PB-011)
 Itinerant merchants (PB-013)

J

K

L

Landscape water conservation [PDF]
Leafleting (PB-013)
Legalizing unapproved construction [PDF]
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 (PB-003)
Municipal Code

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]
 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:
Retaining walls [PDF]
Reuse of residential stair and deck handrails and guardrails [PDF] (PB-038) 

S

SB 330 preliminary application form [PDF]
Seasonal pumpkin and tree lot application form [PDF]
Security doors in elevator lobbies [PDF] (PB-037)
Seismic design category--2013 California building and residential code [PDF] (IB-0404)
Seismic Hazards Mapping Act: Project Review Guidelines [PDF] (PB-077)
Seismic upgrades, structural alterations and voluntary [PDF] (PB-036)
Shear wall continuous tie down systems [PDF] (PB-028)
Sidewalk sales (PB-013) 
Signs:
Single-family home building permit requirements:
 Site development:
 Smoking [PDF] (PB-012)
 Solicitors (PB-013) 
 Special events permit application form [PDF]
 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]
 Subdivisions:
 Suspended systems for acoustical tiles [PDF] (PB-027)

T

Temporary activity permit application form [PDF] 
Temporary sign / temporary banner application form [PDF]
Tobacco shops (PB-012)
Traffic and pedestrian control plans [PDF]
Trees:

U

Utility service contact list [PDF]

V

Vendor carts (PB-013) 

W

 Waste management:
 Water heater requirements [PDF]
 Wireless communication facilities ordinance
 Work Not Requiring a Permit (PB-030) 

X

Y

Z

Zoning ordinance