Research snapshot · Waste · 13 September 2026

Pesticide restrictions in California: 6 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Local limits on pesticide and herbicide use on public and private land, and the ordinances and waivers implementing them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 9 dated municipal records flagged as pesticide restrictions in California, spanning 6 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 5 of 9 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

The story so far

The record starts in Los Altos Hills, 31 October 2023. Since then 6 California towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Moraga on 23 April 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 1 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Urban Forestry, Crop Reports and Open Space Committee.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202521
Dec 2025 to Feb 202622
Mar 2026 to May 202611
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 2 meetings.

The towns on the record6, earliest first

Every California town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Los Altos Hillsearliest 2023-10-31 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-16 · the minutes Agenda center file Open Space Committee Special Meeting Agenda
Palmdaleearliest 2025-03-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-17 · the document IFB 21-001-3400 Herbicide and Pesticide Chemicals (PDF)
Richmondearliest 2025-05-19 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-11-17 · the minutes November 17, 2025
Placer Countyearliest 2026-01-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-28 · the minutes AgendaCenter minutes
Moragaearliest 2026-04-23 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-23 · the document Apr 23 2026 About Town
Nevada Countydated to the year only

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

23 April 2026 · Moraga About Town Newsletter

the document, on the town's own site Apr 23 2026 About Town

28 January 2026 · Placer County

the minutes, on the town's own site AgendaCenter minutes

16 January 2026 · Los Altos Hills Open Space Committee

the minutes, on the town's own site Agenda center file Open Space Committee Special Meeting Agenda

17 November 2025 · Richmond Urban Forestry

the minutes, on the town's own site November 17, 2025

Companies on this record26 companies, 8 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
KyannaRichmond
CalfireRichmond
CARBMoraga
Chris de NijsNevada County
EBRPDRichmond
FacebookMoraga
Friends Aiding Wildlife and Nature - FAWNPlacer County
Friends of the Moraga LibraryMoraga
GroundworkRichmond
GroundworksRichmond
InstagramMoraga
MarinRichmond
MOFDMoraga
Moraga Education Foundation (MEF)Moraga
MUNIRichmond
Nevada Irrigation District (NID)Placer County
NextdoorMoraga
Nixle.comMoraga
Placer County Water AgencyPlacer County
Placer Land TrustPlacer County
PlanetBidsPalmdale
Port of RichmondRichmond
RESCUE 1 FOUNDATIONMoraga
Sportsman’s Legacy FoundationPlacer County
TofiqRichmond
ToyotaMoraga

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 25 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Pesticide restrictions across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Pesticide restrictions, California

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

California

every topic this state carries

Area

Waste

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

6

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

31 October 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 1 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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