CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING CALL AND NOTICE
December 18, 2025
COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 505 FOREST AVENUE, LAGUNA BEACH, CA 92651
SPECIAL MEETING
5:00 P.M.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Mayor of the City of Laguna Beach has called a special meeting of the City Council to take place at 5:00 p.m. on December 18, 2025, for the purpose of discussing and taking action on the item listed on the below agenda.
No other business shall be considered at the Special Meeting except as listed below.
MARK ORGILL, Mayor
HALLIE JONES, Mayor Pro Tem
SUE KEMPF, Councilmember
ALEX ROUNAGHI, Councilmember
BOB WHALEN, Councilmember
DAVE KIFF, City Manager
MEGAN GARIBALDI, City Attorney
LAURA PARISI, City Treasurer
ANN MARIE McKAY, City Clerk
Courtesy Virtual Broadcast: Please take notice that the City also plans to broadcast the meeting via the below listed mediums. These virtual broadcast mediums are also provided as a courtesy only and are not guaranteed to be technically feasible or uninterrupted. Thus, in order to guarantee live-time viewing, members of the public are encouraged to attend in person.
1. Online on the City of Laguna website: www.lagunabeachcity.net/meetings
2. Cox cable channel 852
3. Online on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsj8cEM7IvTH6p4uf3NUzQ Laguna Beach City Council Special Meeting Agenda December 18, 2025 -2-
Public Participation: You may provide comments in person on any agenda item. You may also submit written comments on any agenda item via mail to the City Clerk at 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA. 92651 or by email to [email protected]. In order to allow sufficient time for members of the City Council and staff to review and consider your written comments, written comments will be accepted for consideration up until the close of business on the business day before the date on which this public meeting is scheduled. Written comments WILL NOT be read aloud during the City Council Meeting. Please note that written comments are posted on the City’s website, so do not include any personal information you do not want posted online. Any comments received after the deadline for submittal may not become part of the public record for that meeting.
*** SPECIAL MEETING ***
A. ROLL CALL – 5:00 P.M.
B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – Councilmember Whalen
C. SECOND READING BY TITLE ONLY, PUBLIC HEARING, AND ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 14, CHAPTER 14.50 (BUILDING CODE) OF THE
LAGUNA BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE AND FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 15, CHAPTER 15.01 (CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE) OF THE LAGUNA BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE 2025 CALIFORNIA
BUILDING, FIRE CODE, AND OTHER RELATED CODES, INCLUDING LOCAL
AMENDMENTS, ADOPT A RESOLUTIONS SETTING FORTH FINDINGS BASED ON
LOCAL CONDITIONS FOR CERTAIN LOCAL AMENDMENTS AND FINDING THE
PROPOSED ACTIONS ARE NOT A PROJECTS SUBJECT TO THE CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE ARE EXEMPT
FROM CEQA
Recommendations:
(1) Open the Public hearing of two separate ordinances adopting the 2025 California Building Standards Codes and Fire Code with local amendments to Title 14 and 15 of the Laguna Beach Municipal Code;
(2) Waive full reading and introduce second reading by title only an Ordinance titled, “AN
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE 2025 EDITIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE AND OTHER RELATED 2025 CODES BY AMENDING TITLE 14 (BUILDINGS
AND CONSTRUCTION), OF THE LAGUNA BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING CHAPTER 14.50 (BUILDING CODE), CHAPTER 14.52 (RESIDENTIAL CODE), CHAPTER 14.54 (MECHANICAL CODE), CHAPTER 14.64 (PLUMBING CODE), CHAPTER 14.68 (ELECTRICAL CODE), CHAPTER 14.70 (WILDLANDURBAN INTERFACE CODE), CHAPTER 14.86 (GREEN BUILDING CODE), AND ADDING CHAPTER 14.90 (ENERGY CODE), CHAPTER 14.91 (HISTORICAL BUILDING CODE), CHAPTER 14.92 (EXISTING BUILDING CODE), AND CHAPTER
14.95 (INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE), WITH LOCAL Laguna Beach City Council Special Meeting Agenda December 18, 2025 -3-
AMENDMENTS AND FINDING THE ORDINANCE IS NOT A PROJECT SUBJECT TO
THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE IS EXEMPT FROM CEQA”; and
(3) Waive full reading and introduce second reading by title only an Ordinance titled, “AN
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 15, CHAPTER 15.01 (CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE) OF THE LAGUNA BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE 2025 FIRE CODE WITH
LOCAL AMENDMENTS AND FINDING THE ORDINANCE IS NOT A PROJECT
SUBJECT TO THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE IS EXEMPT FROM CEQA”.
D. ADJOURNMENT.
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ADA ACCOMMODATIONS
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COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54957.5
********************************************************* Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packets are available for public inspection in the City Clerk's Office at 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, California, during normal business hours.