Active Local Government Efforts
Local Government Decarbonization Ordinances
Comparison Matrix as of 12/22/2020
Number of California Jurisdictions: 40
See Sierra Club's summary of each ordinance here.
California Statewide Codes and Standards maps and tracks codes adopted by the CEC here.
California Statewide Codes and Standards maps and tracks codes adopted by the CEC here.
Adopted Language 2019-2020
All-Electric Only - Whole Building
- Berkeley: staff report, ordinance
- Burlingame: agenda (item 8c), single family ordinance (see item 8c for multifamily and commercial ordinances)
- Cupertino: staff report, ordinance
- East Palo Alto: staff report (page 77), ordinance
- Hayward (residential): staff report, ordinance
- Los Altos: ordinance
- Los Gatos: agenda packet, ordinance
- Morgan Hill: staff report, ordinance
- Mountain View: staff report, ordinance
- Oakland: staff report, ordinance
- Ojai: agenda, staff report and ordinance
- Palo Alto: staff report and ordinance
- Piedmont: draft staff report and ordinance
- San Francisco: agenda packet, ordinance
- San Jose: agenda packet, draft ordinance (all buildings)
- San Mateo: staff report, ordinance
- San Mateo County: agenda packet, ordinance
- Santa Cruz: agenda, ordinance
- Santa Rosa: agenda packet, ordinance
- Sunnyvale: agenda packet, ordinance
- Windsor
All-Electric Only - Specific Systems
- Brisbane: staff report, ordinance
- Burlingame (residential, 8c)
- Campbell: agenda report (page 38)
- Carlsbad: summary, ordinance
- Healdsburg: staff report (page 76, item 6c), ordinance
- Menlo Park: staff report and ordinance
- Millbrae: staff report and ordinance
- Los Altos Hills: staff report and ordinance
- Pacifica: staff report, ordinance
- Redwood City: staff report, ordinance
- Richmond: city website, ordinance
- Saratoga: ordinance, resolution
All others: Electric Space Heating, Water Heating and Clothes Drying
Electric-Preferred
- County of Marin: ordinance, overview
- Davis: staff report, ordinance
- Hayward (commercial)
- Mill Valley: staff report and ordinance
- Milpitas: summary, ordinance
- San Anselmo: staff report, ordinance
- San Mateo: staff report, ordinance 2020-17, ordinance 2019-9
- San Luis Obispo: staff report, ordinance
- Santa Monica: staff report, ordinance
Other Approaches
- Alameda (city-owned properties)
- Sunnyvale (Density Bonus)
- Oakland (Electric Vehicles)
- Electric Vehicle Model Language (Peninsula Clean Energy)