Title 24 reports for Oceanside permits.
Oceanside’s plan-check page says paper plans are dead with no exceptions — and, on that same page, still asks for five sets and two copies of the energy calculations, beneath handouts titled Paper Plan Submittal.
The handout shelf is a code cycle behind
Two document sets are live on Oceanside’s site at once. The 2025 half is real: bulletin C & R 100 adopts the 2025 code family including Part 6, C & R 101 publishes the design data, and sixteen Information Bulletins were reissued. The 2022 half is what the Plan Check page still links — the New SFR requirements, the Residential Code checklist and the general submittal handout, each stamped “Codes 2022 / 1/1/23–12/31/25.” That handout narrows energy documentation to “residential buildings employing an alternative design” — and the page it sits on, under a banner saying paper ended January 2, 2025, still asks for five sets and two copies of the energy calculations.
The Plan Review Target Date table gives ADUs 14 calendar days, additions and remodels 14, new residential 21, resubmittals 7 and residential PV one business day; two other published numbers disagree with it, so quote the table. Plan review then lives two calendar years from submittal. C & R 101 puts Oceanside in Climate Zone 7. There is no local amendment to the Energy Code: City Code Chapter 6 adopts Part 6 by reference at Sec. 6.1, carries no Energy Code article, and the city is on neither CEC approved-local-standards list — so a CF1R here models the 2025 changes and nothing extra. Every new dwelling also needs ACCA Manual J, S and D in two copies, calculations on site at mechanical rough — worth knowing before an HVAC change-out or a HERS-verified measure is scoped.
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.
Your first report with me
One per client, homes under 3,000 square feet. Full energy model, CF1R and CHEERS registration. It’s a test run — send one job and see how it goes.
Every model after the first
The standard rate once you’re a client — the second building, ADU plus main house, the next project that walks in. Back in 3 business days.
Over 3,000 square feet
Quoted from the plans before any work starts, same day.
24×36 plan-sheet set
Your CF1R laid out full size, matched to your drawing set. Comes back as a PDF you drop straight in.
Revisions
Two revisions included, plus questions any time. Past two I quote first, before I touch it.
Commercial / tenant improvement
Send the plans and you’ll have a flat quote back the same day. No deposit, no minimum.
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.
Oceanside plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Is Oceanside paper or electronic for energy calculations?
Does Oceanside’s pre-approved ADU program have any plans yet?
Does the project need HERS field verification?
Sometimes — typically for duct leakage, refrigerant charge, or certain heat-pump and quality-insulation measures. The CF1R lists exactly which measures need it, and I’ll flag it in the email so it isn’t a surprise at inspection. The field testing itself is done by a third-party HERS rater the owner or contractor hires; that’s outside what I do.
Plan check came back with an energy comment. Now what?
Forward it to me. If it’s a job I did, the first two revisions are free and I answer the comment directly — you don’t have to translate between your plan checker and me.
If someone else did the original report, I’ll still take it. Send the comment and the existing CF1R and you’ll get a flat quote back the same day.
Send your Oceanside plans.
The CF1R comes back modeled to the 2025 code in Climate Zone 7, which is what the city’s bulletins adopt — not what its 2022-stamped handouts still describe.