Title 24 reports for Livermore and Pleasanton permits.
Both cities require new buildings to be all-electric in the same one-sentence mandate, re-enacted eight days apart in October 2025. Neither shows up on the Energy Commission’s reach-code list, because the ban was written into CALGreen rather than the Energy Code.
The ban is in Part 11, not Part 6
Both cities say the same sentence — “All newly constructed buildings shall be all-electric buildings” — and both re-enacted it for the 2025 cycle eight days apart in October 2025, Livermore by Ordinance 2181 on 10/13/2025 and Pleasanton by Ordinance 2299 on 10/21/2025. Neither city is on a CEC approved-ordinance list, and that is not an oversight: these are CALGreen (Part 11) amendments, not Part 6 amendments, which is why they are on no CEC list. Checking energy.ca.gov gets the wrong answer for both. They diverge where it decides jobs. Livermore stops at new construction — additions, alterations, repairs and tenant improvements are expressly not new construction — and its Exception 2 lets an ADU off entirely when it goes on a lot with an existing gas-served residence.
Pleasanton reaches gut remodels and has no ADU exception. Under PMC § 20.26.250, replacing over 50 percent of the existing foundation, or removing or replacing over 50 percent of the framing above the sill plate, makes the whole building an all-electric building — with a three-year lookback from the most recent permit final date, so the work cannot be phased into compliance. Two exceptions exist, and the live one is a modeling showing that no all-electric prescriptive pathway exists and the building cannot meet the performance standard using commercially available technology and an approved calculation method. Both cities are Climate Zone 12, and both police the numbers in the field: Pleasanton at inspection code 803, checking window U-factor and SHGC labels, and Livermore on a fill-in sheet that prints the 75-square-foot window cliff right on the form.
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.
Livermore & Pleasanton plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Does Pleasanton’s all-electric rule reach a gut remodel?
Do Livermore and Pleasanton want the energy forms on the plans?
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.
What do you need from me to start?
A PDF of the architecturals and the project address. Floor plans, elevations and a window schedule is plenty.
You don’t need the HVAC or water heater picked. If the plans don’t call them out, I model what I’d normally specify for that job — and I list every assumption in the email so nothing is buried. Swap any of it and I rerun; that doesn’t count against your free revisions.
The design doesn’t have to be finished either. Early is often better, because that’s when a compliance problem is still cheap to fix.
Send your Livermore or Pleasanton plans.
Say which city and how much of the existing structure is coming out — in Pleasanton that percentage decides whether the CF1R has to be modeled all-electric, and in Livermore it does not.