Home and property
Oxnard utility billing covers water, wastewater, and trash
Oxnard utility billing handles city water, wastewater, and trash accounts, including online bill pay, service sign-up forms, rate information, and Project Assist help.
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History and culture
Oxnard's name grew from a sugar beet factory
Oxnard grew around a large 1898 sugar beet factory, and the city later took its name from the Oxnard brothers who built it.
Outdoors
Pacific Electric Trail turns Rancho Cucamonga rail into a path
Rancho Cucamonga's Pacific Electric Trail follows an old railway corridor, giving walkers, runners, cyclists, and riders a public path with transportation history underneath.
Home and property
Palmdale building projects start online with Accela
Palmdale uses the Accela Citizen Portal for building permit applications, electronic plan review, inspections, and some building-related complaints.
Cars and driving
Pasadena parking permits depend on what kind of parking you need
Pasadena parking pages separate permits, citations, enforcement questions, towed vehicles, and public parking, with Parking Customer Service as the main help counter.
Rules and licenses
Pasadena's City Service Center is the everyday city help desk
Pasadena residents can use the City Service Center by phone, web, app, or chat to ask city questions, submit regular requests, and find the right city service.
Home and property
Perris water questions may now point to EMWD
Perris water and sewer service information notes that services transferred to Eastern Municipal Water District in 2024, so utility questions may need that district route.
Rules and licenses
Pomona business licenses are tied to the activity and address
Pomona business license work can start online or at City Hall, and the same business question may also touch planning, permits, rentals, or contractor work.
Rules and licenses
Pomona street service questions have a useful phone map
Pomona's Public Services and frequently called numbers pages split graffiti, potholes, street sweeping, traffic signals, streetlights, illegal dumping, sewer, storm drains, trees, and trash into clearer contact paths.
Rules and licenses
Rancho Cordova Online keeps permits and licenses together
Rancho Cordova Online handles city licenses and building permits, but planning review may need to come before a business opens or a site changes.
Rules and licenses
Rancho Cucamonga building permits are handled online
Rancho Cucamonga routes building permit applications through its Online Permit Center, with separate contacts for quick permit types and other technical questions.
Rules and licenses
Rancho Cucamonga business licenses depend on where the business sits
Rancho Cucamonga business license applications can branch between home occupation, commercial or industrial location, short-term rental, street vendor, and special permit paths.
Home and property
Redding utilities are mostly under one city roof
City of Redding Utilities operates electric, water, wastewater, storm-drain, and solid-waste divisions, but a move request still starts by confirming that the address is in the city's service area.
Home and property
Redwood City permit files work best with the address first
Redwood City permit instructions encourage electronic submittals, address-based file naming, permit-status checks, and direct permit staff contact.
Home and property
Rialto water and sewer questions may depend on the service area
Rialto utility pages point residents to water and sewer service contacts, bill payment, rate information, service-area maps, and utility provider links.
Rules and licenses
Richmond code issue reports work best with a clear location
Richmond's Code Enforcement form is for possible neighborhood and private-property violations, with phone and email as backup.
Rules and licenses
Riverside 311 is the first stop for many city service requests
Riverside 311 gives residents a web and app path for many non-emergency city service requests, with tracking, routing, and request numbers built into the process.
Home and property
Riverside building permits can be handled through the public portal
Riverside's Public Permit Portal supports online applications, plan submittals, fee payments, permit tracking, issuance steps, inspections, and results.
Rules and licenses
Riverside County DBA filing, fees, and publication
A Riverside County fictitious business name filing costs $66 for one name and owner. Newspaper publication is a separate step with its own deadline.
Money and taxes
Riverside County property tax has two main doors
For Riverside County property tax, parcel value questions start with the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder, while bills and payments start with the Tax Collector.
Rules and licenses
Riverside County records start with the kind of paper
Riverside County record errands are easier when you first name whether you need a birth, death, marriage, recorded property document, clerk copy, or other filed county record.
Home and property
Riverside utility service starts with the RPU service maps
RPU opens, stops, and transfers city electric and water service, but the two service areas are not identical. Check both addresses before treating a move as a transfer.
Rules and licenses
Roseville puts permits and licenses in one services menu
Roseville's online services menu brings together building permits, inspections, business licenses, planning permits, engineering permits, hydrant permits, and wastewater discharge permits.
Home and property
Roseville utility questions often start with the city
Roseville runs community-owned utility services, so bill, service, outage, rebate, trash, water, sewer, and electric questions often start with the city.