Luxury Remodeling in Pomona
Design-build pools, outdoor living and ADUs for Pomona homes, from Lincoln Park's historic blocks to the Phillips Ranch hills.
Building in Pomona
Pools, outdoor living and ADUs for Pomona's historic streets and hillside tracts.
Pomona incorporated in 1888, by then the western anchor of the citrus-growing Inland Empire, with commercial groves across the north of the city and smaller family farms to the south, and stately homes soon began to line boulevards such as Holt Avenue. The decades that followed produced the city's historic residential districts: Lincoln Park, with more than 800 buildings, most dating from 1900 through the 1930s; Wilton Heights beside it; and Hacienda Park, whose homes date from the 1930s through the 1960s. Later master-planned neighborhoods took to the hills near Ganesha Park and across Phillips Ranch, where curving streets adjust to the slopes around retained fingers of open space. On the historic streets, exterior work begins with historic preservation review. In the hills, it begins with slope, soils and fire exposure.
Single-family streets on the older gridded blocks around downtown, where a historic district shows up on the zoning map as an -H suffix, and the master-planned tracts of Phillips Ranch and Mountain Meadows, laid out after most of the valley floor had been developed and each governed by its own specific plan. In the Phillips Ranch single-family district, a room addition keeps a 25-foot rear yard measured to the property line or to the toe or top of a slope, and a fully roofed patio cover needs a 5-foot side yard and a 10-foot rear yard.
One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Pomona project are the people on site building it.
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Local Conditions
What building in Pomona involves
Permits in Pomona
City of Pomona Development Services Department, Building and Safety Division
Residential permits come from the Building and Safety Division of the Development Services Department at City Hall, 505 South Garey Avenue, while zoning questions go to the Planning Division in the same department. The division's grading handout requires a grading permit, with plans stamped by a California-registered professional engineer and a geotechnical report, for earthwork that disturbs at least 50 cubic yards of soil or that the Building Official calls for based on site characteristics or location. The Zoning and Development Code's pool standards keep a pool and its mechanical equipment at least 5 feet from rear, side and street-side lot lines and out of utility easements, and keep a pool with more than 150 square feet of water surface at least 5 feet from any wall of the house. The division's fencing handout calls for a permanent 5-foot fence completely surrounding any pool, spa or other body of water over 24 inches deep, in place and approved by the building inspector before plastering and filling. In the six historic districts, the code's definition of alteration reaches grading, surface paving, walls, fences and tree removal, and no permit is issued for work on a historical resource until a Certificate of Appropriateness or Certificate of Historic Compliance is in place. Additions and new accessory structures there go to the Historic Preservation Commission for a Major Certificate of Appropriateness, and where an ADU needs one, the code limits that review to architecture.
Permit details checked September 2026 against City of Pomona. Rules change, so we confirm them again for your parcel.
What we plan for here
- Certificate of Appropriateness submittals
- Pool setback, easement and fence layout
- Hillside grading and geotechnical reports
- Phillips Ranch patio cover and addition setbacks
- Pool removal and backfill permits
The General Plan places Pomona's steep hills in the Ganesha Hills south of the Fairplex and in the Phillips Ranch area, and it confines the city's landslide risk to parts of those same two areas, most of it on designated open space. Slope and soils questions come first for any pool or terrace there.
About 27 percent of the city, some 4,025 acres, falls within areas susceptible to liquefaction, generally at the base of hills in the northwest, west and southwest of the city. The General Plan's seismic hazard map labels this ground a liquefaction area of required investigation, which makes soils work an early question for a pool shell or ADU foundation.
The General Plan maps large areas of high wildfire risk in Phillips Ranch and the Ganesha Hills, where open space meets steep slopes, and notes that neighborhoods next to those areas can be affected if a fire spreads, so planting and material choices near the open space are made with fire exposure in mind.
Filling in an old pool takes a grading permit whichever method is used. Leaving the shell in place under uncertified fill is an option only on ground sloping no more than 10 percent, with two drainage holes cut in the floor, the filled area kept to landscaping, and a covenant recorded before the demolition permit is issued.
Neighborhoods we work in
- Lincoln Park
- Wilton Heights
- Hacienda Park
- Phillips Ranch
- Ganesha Hills
- Mountain Meadows
Pomona Services
Everything we build in Pomona
Each page covers permits, costs and the build process for that work in Pomona.
Pool & Spa Remodeling in Pomona
We design and build pools and spas with our own crews, start to finish.
Backyard & Outdoor Living in Pomona
Outdoor living, hardscape, and curb appeal, designed and built to outlast the SoCal sun.
ADUs & Additions in Pomona
We design, permit, and build ADUs and additions that actually add value.
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Pomona Guides
Remodeling guides for Pomona
Local planning notes, costs and design direction for Pomona homeowners.
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