Temporary certification of occupancy
Hi there, does anyone know how to obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy for a residential new construction in San Jose? We have everything done except PGE is taking forever to do the meter hook up (no schedule at the moment).
TCOs are through your building department, and at least locally you can ask your inspector for this. That said I'm not sure the TCO will help here because it is a meter set with PGE, not something that is a City permit issue...maybe they can allow it with a temp pole/meter but I wouldn't count on it.
Because of PGE’s frequent delay, CA has started to issue TCO for this situation. However San Jose said they only allow this for commercial properties, not residential. I want to find out if that’s entirely correct. Anyway, thanks for your reply
I'd reach out to the building inspection senior. So most likely your inspectors boss' boss. Things like this can be difficult to verify because it is often policy more than law/rule. So there may be no actual restriction on TCO for residential, but because of the challenges of doing this for residential homeowners they may have internally decided to restrict it to commercial.
That’s what I thought too. Will definitely try the escalation path. Thanks for responding!