Tustin, CA Animal Ordinances: Beekeeping (2026)

Section 4221 of the Tustin City Code, the general prohibitions section for Chapter 2 (Animals and Fowl), makes it unlawful to keep more than one beehive or colony on any single parcel of property in the City. The same subsection layers on a spatial buffer: no occupied beehive can be closer than 100 feet from any adjacent residential structure or from a street or highway. That distance requirement means the rule functions less as a headcount limit and more as a siting restriction, since most standard residential lots in Tustin's R-1 and R-2 districts cannot satisfy a full 100-foot setback from every neighboring home and adjoining street, effectively pushing legal hive placement to larger parcels such as those in the R-A district.

The beekeeping cap sits alongside other parcel-based animal limits in the same subsection, including caps on dogs, cats, birds, and roosters, all enforced under the same general prohibitions framework rather than a separate beekeeping permit process. Tustin's code does not describe a variance or waiver procedure specific to the hive setback, so the 100-foot distance functions as a fixed rule rather than a case-by-case discretionary standard, unlike the use permit required for keeping livestock under the adjoining Section 4222.