Ventura, CA Environmental Rules: Boat Dock Permits (2026)

140, Floating Piers, is part of Title 12, Building and Construction, alongside the city's Building, Plumbing, Electrical and Mechanical Codes. 060 requires all materials used in structural slips, piers, docks, wharves and their appurtenances to be new and conform to current ASTM standard specifications, fabricated and installed in a workmanlike manner by experienced workers where skilled work is required; metal must be noncorrosive or protected by concrete, plastics, heavy galvanizing, epoxies, hard anodizing or quality paint; and concrete must be dense, highly impermeable Type II or Type V cement.

Platforms must be fixed bridge-type structures supported on bearing piles or bulkhead structures set below revetment stone, gangways must hinge at the shore end and ride on rollers or wheels rather than sliding, and railings must stand 36 inches high and withstand a 30-pound-per-lineal-foot horizontal load. Guide and anchor piles must be round concrete or wood, driven to within three inches of design elevation, with the top of piling never lower than elevation +10 feet, sea level datum. 030). 090 confines all of it to residential marinas; the H-C harbor commercial zone, where Ventura Harbor's commercial slips sit, is expressly carved out.