Title 24 reports for Concord and Walnut Creek permits.
Concord and Walnut Creek wrote mirror-image local energy ordinances in 1982 and 1983. Walnut Creek repealed its time-of-sale weatherization disclosure in November 2025, in the same ordinance that adopted the 2025 code. Concord still has its, still names an Energy Coordinator, and still publishes the form.
A 1983 disclosure that outlived its twin
Neither city amends the Energy Code. CMC § 15.47.010 adopts the 2025 California Energy Code without amendment by Ordinance 25-8; WCMC § 9-17.01 does the same by Ordinance 2254, adopted 11-18-2025. Neither is on a CEC approved-ordinance list. The Contra Costa ordinance people half-remember is a County Board of Supervisors measure for unincorporated territory, and the County’s separate all-electric ordinance has been suspended and unenforced since February 27, 2024. What they do have is older: both wrote Municipal Solar Utility chapters in 1982–83, and both wrote time-of-sale weatherization disclosures. Walnut Creek repealed its disclosure chapter in the same November 2025 ordinance that adopted the 2025 code: WCMC Chapter 9-11 now reads only that it was repealed in its entirety by section 5 of Ordinance 2254.
Concord’s survives. CMC § 13.20.030 still requires the seller of any one-to-four-unit dwelling to disclose attic insulation and R-value, weatherstripping, water-heater blanket, low-flow shower heads and duct insulation on a City form, with the buyer’s acknowledgement to the Energy Coordinator within 14 days after close of escrow — a local energy obligation with nothing to do with Title 24. Both cities are Climate Zone 12 and both want the Certificate of Compliance forms printed on the drawings. Concord issues four residential permit types instantly with no plan review, including MEP change-outs and like-for-like windows, and quotes 10 business days for a first review on an alteration. Walnut Creek publishes maximums — 23 days new, 18 additions, 13 alterations — and in every row the Building Division column is the maximum. Its energy inspection is codified.
One thing that doesn’t change by city: my price and turnaround are flat statewide — $99 first report, $150 flat after, 24–48 hours on your first job. What differs city to city is what happens on the plan-check side before and after the CF1R lands in your permit set, which is what this page covers.
Prices
Flat fees, in writing before I start. No hourly, no bid package, no change-order games — the number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
One honest note
I’m not a licensed engineer or architect, and I don’t stamp drawings. On the CF1R I’m the documentation author — you stay the responsible designer. Nothing about your role on the job changes.
That’s on purpose. I’m not after your scope or your clients. I do one piece of the permit set — the piece that usually holds it up — and I do it fast.
Concord & Walnut Creek plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Does selling a Concord house still trigger an energy disclosure?
Which review time do I plan around in Walnut Creek?
Does my ADU or addition actually need one?
Almost certainly. New conditioned floor area — ADUs, JADUs, garage conversions, additions — triggers Title 24. So do alterations that touch the envelope, the ductwork, or the HVAC equipment, including a straight change-out. A remodel that only moves non-structural interior partitions usually doesn’t.
Send it either way. If it doesn’t need a report I’ll say so and there’s no charge for the look.
How fast do I get it back?
24 to 48 hours on your first job, three business days for everything after that — a date you can put on the schedule, not an estimate. If your permit deadline is tighter than that, say so in the notes; I’ll tell you honestly whether I can hit it before you commit.
Send your Concord or Walnut Creek plans.
Both cities ask for the Certificate of Compliance forms printed on the drawings rather than filed alongside them, and Walnut Creek does not accept deferred submittals on single-family alterations — so the CF1R comes back sheet-ready.