Title 24 reports for Oxnard permits.
Oxnard publishes a nine-week plan check and, on another page, a voter-approved permit issued in one business day — the difference is who carries the review, and the fast lane is audited after the permit is already in your hand.
Nine weeks, or one business day
Oxnard states it plainly: 95 percent of building plan checks are completed within 9 weeks from the date of submittal, with express plan checks — minor residential, at the Building Official’s discretion — within 2 to 4 weeks, plus 1 to 2 weeks for signatures and fees. Submittal is over the counter and on paper: three complete sets of plans and two sets of applicable calculations, structural and energy. The 2025-code checklist names the deliverable by form number: CF1R Energy Calculations, commonly referred to as Title 24, as plan sheets — or prescriptive non-HERS-verified forms where an addition is under 1,000 sf of conditioned area. Come back incomplete twice and a licensed design professional becomes mandatory for the entirety of the project; from the third submission the city bills $212 per hour.
The other lane is the Oxnard Permit Simplicity Act, Measure F, codified as Chapter 26: a permit in one business day, in exchange for a California licence, city training, $1,000,000 of professional liability insurance held for five years, every pre-approval in hand and a third-party structural peer review. The audit comes after issuance, and deficiencies found may require the stoppage of work — which makes a complete energy set worth more. Oxnard has no reach code in any cycle: Ordinance 3070 adopts the 2025 California Energy Code with no amendments, and the city is absent from both CEC approved-ordinance lists. It is Climate Zone 6, though ZIP 93036 is absent from the CEC workbook. Pre-approved county ADU plans are accepted, with project-specific energy calculations still required.
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.
Oxnard plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
How long does Oxnard plan check actually take?
Does a Measure F one-day permit change the energy documents?
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 Oxnard plans.
The checklist asks for CF1R energy calculations as plan sheets alongside a second set of calculations, and that is exactly how the report comes back to you.