Ventura County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

No agricultural activity, operation, or facility that is consistent with this Chapter and the General Plan, and is conducted or maintained for commercial purposes in a manner consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards as established and followed by similar agricultural operations in the same locality, shall be or become a nuisance, private or public, due to any changed condition in or about the locality, after it has been in operation for more than one (1) year if it was not a nuisance at the time it began.

a.

This Section 8114-2.1.1 shall not apply if the agricultural activity, operation, or facility obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway.

b.

For purposes of this Section 8114-2.1.1, the term "agricultural activity, operation, or facility" shall include, but not be limited to, the cultivation and tillage of the soils, dairying, the production, irrigation, frost protection, cultivation, growing, pest and disease management, harvesting and field processing of any agricultural commodity including timber, viticulture, apiculture, or horticulture, the raising of livestock, fish, or poultry, and any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or market, or delivery to carriers for transportation to market.

(Am. Ord. 4151—10/7/97; Ord. No. 4650, § 14, 9-16-2025)