Active Local Government Efforts

Local Government Decarbonization Ordinances in California
Comparison Matrix as of 12/10/2021
Number of California Jurisdictions: 54

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See Sierra Club's summary of each ordinance here.
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California Statewide Codes and Standards maps and tracks codes adopted by the CEC here.

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Adopted Language 2019-2021

All-Electric Only - Whole Building

• Alameda: ordinance
• Berkeley​: staff report, ordinance 
• Burlingame: agenda (item 8c), single family ordinance (see item 8c for multifamily and commercial ordinances)
• ​Cupertino: staff report, ordinance
• Daly City: ordinance
• East Palo Alto: staff report (page 77), ordinance
• Emeryville: staff report, ordinance
• Encinitas: council packet (ordinance starts on page 8)
• Fairfax: ordinance
• Half Moon Bay: 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: staff report and ordinance
• Petaluma: staff report and ordinance (p. 15)
• Sacramento: staff report and ordinance
• San Francisco: agenda packet, ordinance, summary
• ​San Jose: agenda packet, draft ordinance (all buildings)
• San Mateo: staff report, ordinance
• San Mateo County: agenda packet, ordinance
• Santa Barbara: ordinance
• Santa Clara: agenda packet
• Santa Cruz: agenda, ordinance 
• Santa Rosa: agenda packet, ordinance
• South San Francisco: ordinance
• Sunnyvale: agenda packet, ordinance
• ​Windsor (revoked)

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
• Solana Beach: staff report and ordinance (page 218, item c4)
  

^Electric Water Heating
All others: Electric Space Heating, Water Heating and Clothes Drying

Electric-Preferred

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• Albany: resolution
• County of Marin: ordinance, overview
• Davis: staff report
• 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)