Title 24 Reports in Long Beach
Long Beach crosses a climate zone line in under ten miles. The waterfront and central city are zone 6; North Long Beach, Bixby Knolls and the El Dorado Park area are zone 8.
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A zone line crosses the city in under ten miles
The waterfront, downtown, Belmont Shore, Naples and most of the central city are zone 6. North Long Beach, Bixby Knolls and the El Dorado Park area — ZIP codes 90805, 90807 and 90808 — are zone 8. Long Beach measures barely ten miles from the water to its northern boundary, so this is not a case of a city being big enough to span zones. It crosses one over a short drive north.
The effect is practical rather than technical. Two comparable houses, one in Belmont Heights and one in Bixby Knolls, are modelled against different envelope and equipment targets, so compliance documentation prepared for one address in the city should not be assumed to cover another.
The line runs across the basin, not around the city
It is easier to read once you see that the boundary is regional and Long Beach simply sits on it. Seaward and west, Carson, Wilmington, San Pedro, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach are all zone 6 with the rest of the coast. Inland and north, Lakewood, Bellflower, Paramount, Compton, Cerritos and Los Alamitos are zone 8. The city is where those two bands meet, which is why its own ZIP codes divide between them.
Permitting through Building and Safety
Long Beach is a charter city and runs its own building department, so permits go through the Community Development Department's Building and Safety Bureau rather than through Los Angeles County. The energy compliance forms are reviewed together with the drawings, and the zone the forms are built on has to match the project's ZIP code rather than the city name on the cover sheet.
Common Title 24 Questions in Long Beach
- Which climate zone is North Long Beach in?
- Why does the climate zone change inside Long Beach?
- Does a Belmont Shore project use the same zone as Bixby Knolls?
- Does Long Beach review permits, or Los Angeles County?
- Does a Long Beach ADU or garage conversion need an energy report?
- Do duplex and small apartment remodels need energy documents?
- What does the Building and Safety Bureau check in the energy forms?
- Do Long Beach tenant improvements need the nonresidential forms?
Long Beach projects fall in California climate zones 6 and 8. The zone drives the envelope and equipment requirements a report has to meet, and a single city can span more than one, so it is confirmed per address.