Title 24 reports for Redwood City permits.
Redwood City’s Green Building articles were swept out when the city adopted the 2025 code, and its Reach Codes web page now returns a 404 — but the ADU submittal checklist in the applicant’s hand still says detached ADUs have to be all-electric.
The reach code is gone; the handout isn’t
Ordinance No. 2551, adopted September 29, 2025 and effective with the 2025 code on January 1, 2026, “repealed the former Ch. 9, Arts. I—VI, VIII, IX, and XI—XV, and enacted a new Ch. 9.” What came back has articles for building, plumbing, electrical, seismic, rooftop solar and EV charging — no Energy Code article and no Green Building Code article. Former Article X now reads “ARTICLE X. - RESERVED.” The codified City Code returns zero hits for “reach code” and zero for “electrification,” and the city’s own Reach Codes web page returns a 404. Redwood City is on neither Energy Commission approved-ordinance list and has filed nothing in docket 22-BSTD-07 or 25-BSTD-04: repealed effective January 1, 2026, never CEC-approved in either cycle, no application pending.
The handouts did not follow. The ADU Permit Submittal Checklist still says, under Utility Plans, “Per Redwood City’s Reach Codes, All New, Detached ADUs are Required to be All-Electric,” and asks for Title 24 Energy Sheets on the architectural plans plus Title 24 calculations as a separate document. The August 2026 completeness checklist asks for “Form CF-1R and MF-1R.” All of Redwood City is Climate Zone 3. Submittal is a Box upload plus a confirming email, and files that skip the project address and the words “Permit application” are refused. The January 2026 table gives two weeks for an ADU or JADU, three weeks for a new home and three days for PV, EV and storage; One-Stop same-day review excludes ADUs outright, so a correction round costs a full cycle.
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.
Redwood City plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Do detached ADUs in Redwood City still have to be all-electric?
How does a Redwood City plan set actually get submitted?
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.
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 Redwood City plans.
Name the file with the project address and the words Permit application before it goes in the Box folder — that is the difference between a submittal and a rejection here, and the CF1R comes back labeled that way.