Camarillo, CA Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum A-E parcel
- 10 acres (Sec. 19.10.050)
- Yard setbacks
- 50 ft front, side and rear (Sec. 19.10.070)
- Habitation-to-ag building gap
- 50 ft minimum (Sec. 19.10.080)
- Poultry allowed by right
- Up to 500 birds (Sec. 19.10.020(K))
Summary
Camarillo protects working farmland through its A-E Agricultural Exclusive zone, which requires a ten-acre minimum parcel and fifty-foot setbacks on every side to keep houses and other development from crowding active agricultural operations. The zone is built around preserving farming, not phasing it out.
The A-E agricultural exclusive zone is intended for the promotion and preservation of agricultural activities on lands capable of procuring and supporting such activities and excluding those activities which, by their development and association, would have detrimental effects upon the use of such areas designated for agricultural purposes. ... The minimum acreage for any A-E zone shall be ten acres. A parcel cannot be divided into parcels of less than ten acres.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
010). 020 lists farming in all its branches as the core permitted use, explicitly naming orchards, vineyards, row crops, animal breeding and pasturing, apiaries, poultry raising up to five hundred birds, and on-site processing of what the farm itself produces. 70. 070 requires a fifty-foot front yard, fifty-foot side yard and fifty-foot rear yard for any building used for human habitation, a buffer far larger than the twenty-foot yards required in the R-1 residential zone. 080(B) additionally requires at least fifty feet of separation between habitable buildings and buildings used for agricultural purposes on the same parcel, and structures housing animals must sit at least one hundred fifty feet from the front property line and one hundred feet from any interior line. 030 routes feedlots, dairies, and hatcheries exceeding five hundred laying birds into the conditional use permit process rather than allowing them by right.
Violations & Fines
Dividing A-E land below the ten-acre minimum without an approved zone change, or building within the required fifty-foot yard setbacks, is a zoning code violation the Community Development Department enforces through stop-work orders, correction notices and, where uncorrected, misdemeanor or infraction citation under the city's general zoning enforcement authority in Title 19.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How far must a farmhouse sit from the property line in the A-E zone?
Can a dairy or feedlot operate in the A-E zone by right?
Sources & Official References
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