Ventura, CA Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

Section 10.650.150(D)(1) bars anyone adjacent to or within a residential zone from operating power construction equipment or tools, or performing outside construction or repair work on buildings or structures, including a pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, or steam or electric hoist, in a way that creates noise exceeding the article's noise level limits, between 8:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next. The same subsection affirmatively permits those construction activities between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., and exempts the performance of emergency work from the curfew entirely.

Section 10.650.150(D)(2) clarifies that home repairs and routine maintenance of personal property, such as working on a car or boat in a driveway, is not construction for purposes of the curfew. Section 10.650.150(D)(3) goes further than the citywide hours: the planning commission and city council can impose stricter construction-hour conditions project by project when approving a subdivision, planned development permit, conditional use permit or variance, so a specific development's approved hours can be narrower than the citywide 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. window. Enforcement runs through the same noise chapter that covers all special noise sources in Title 10, Chapter 10.650, and applies regardless of whether the work is being done by a contractor or a property owner.