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Norco, California

Luxury Remodeling in Norco

A trail behind white rail fencing lines most streets, and we plan site access around it.

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Pools That Leave Room for the Horses

On the original grid east of the I-15, laid out when Norco was established in the 1920s, most streets run between dirt or decomposed granite shoulders rather than sidewalks, with a decomposed granite trail behind white split-rail fencing along one side.

The trail system reached nearly 104 miles by 2018, and most residential lots have direct access to it. Most of the city is zoned for low-density, agriculturally oriented living, and lots of 20,000 square feet or more account for almost half of its land.

Newer development carries a recorded Primary Animal Keeping Area that must stay flat and open, with a clear, uncovered vehicle route to it, and lots without one must still hold open animal keeping ground sized to the animals the lot allows.

On a Norco backyard, the pool, the shade structure and any ADU are placed around that animal keeping ground and its access, not the other way around.

Large and agricultural by design: lots of 20,000 square feet or more make up almost half of Norco's incorporated land, and the A-1 zone's minimum is 20,000 square feet for lots created before Ordinance 977 took effect on September 6, 2014 and 21,780 net square feet for lots created since, with a flat pad of at least 19,600 square feet on each new lot.

East of the I-15, most lots exceed 20,000 square feet and hold low, one-story houses set back behind split-rail, chain link or picket fences, while lots on the steeper slopes of the Norco Hills and Norco Ridge Ranch areas are 20,000 square feet or less, and residential lots west of the freeway are 20,000 square feet.

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The Essentials

Permits issued by

City of Norco Building and Safety Division

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Years of experience building across Southern California

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Local Conditions

The Ground Rules in Norco

Permits in Norco

City of Norco Building and Safety Division

Residential permits are issued by the City of Norco Building and Safety Division, whose pool and spa submittal checklist calls for three sets of plot plans and two stamped, signed sets of structural plans, with the plot plan showing the lot's Primary Animal Keeping Area (PAKA) or animal keeping area and its required access, dimensioned.

The checklist's Norco-specific requirements are to assume expansive soil, keep five feet clear from the water's edge to any obstruction and install no P-traps, and a Contractor Business License Verification Form and an Owner's Declaration Form must be approved before the permit is issued.

In the A-1 zone, structures may cover no more than 40 percent of the flat pad, and in-ground pools and spas count toward building coverage together with a five-foot coping area around their perimeter. Under the city's ADU checklist, a detached ADU may have up to 1,000 square feet of living area, an ADU tops out at 16 feet at the peak, its exterior materials, colors, roof pitch and architecture must match the main house, and a detached unit must be metered separately for city water.

Permit details checked September 2026 against City of Norco and Norco Municipal Code . Rules change, so we confirm them again for your parcel.

What We Plan For

PAKA and open animal keeping area site planning

Expansive-soil pool shells and decks

Pool and coping coverage on the A-1 pad

Detached ADUs matched to the main house

Trail-frontage access planning

The city's pool and spa checklist directs designers to assume expansive soil, so pool shells, decking and flatwork are engineered for soil movement from the outset.

Where an A-1 lot has a recorded Primary Animal Keeping Area, that rear-yard ground must stay flat, rectangular, at least 30 feet wide and free of non-animal structures, with a 15-foot flat, clear and direct vehicle route to it, measured from the eave line, that cannot run under a roof or overhead cover, which decides where a pool, patio cover or pergola can sit.

Lots without a recorded PAKA must still keep a contiguous, rectangular open animal keeping area, free of any structure that needs a building permit and sized at 576 square feet per allowed animal unit; on an A-1 lot of 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, which is allowed five animal units, that comes to 2,880 square feet with a 30-foot minimum dimension.

On A-1 lots that were not yet developed with a house when Ordinance 785 took effect, one side yard of at least 15 feet must stay graded for vehicle access to the rear yard, clear of obstructions from the eave line to the property line and with 16 feet of vertical clearance, so pool equipment, shade structures and storage cannot be placed there.

Most Norco streets carry a decomposed granite trail, typically 12 feet wide and set behind white rail fencing, and the city notes that paving across the trail is prohibited on new residential development, so driveway work and construction access on a trail-front lot are planned around it.