Camarillo, CA Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Density Bonus Law (2026)

49 in full by Ordinance No. 2018 on February 14, 2024, to implement California's Density Bonus Act (Government Code Section 65915) at the local level. 010 requires any applicant seeking a density bonus, concession, or waiver to submit an application on a city-approved form at the same time as the entitlement application for the underlying housing project. In exchange for the bonus, the applicant must agree that the occupants of qualifying low-, very low-, and moderate-income units remain low-, very low-, or moderate-income households, and must keep rental units at affordable rent levels for fifty-five years, or longer if a construction, mortgage insurance, or rental subsidy program requires it; for-sale units must be sold at an affordable housing cost and remain subject to a resale-restriction covenant for the same fifty-five-year term, which resets on each resale.

The city requires an equity-sharing agreement on all for-sale affordable units unless it would conflict with another funding source's own requirements. 49 or the state Act itself requires for a qualifying project, and conversely to grant a proportionately lower bonus to a project that only partially meets the Act's or the chapter's thresholds. 020 for commercial developer partnerships: a commercial developer that partners with a housing developer providing at least thirty percent low-income or fifteen percent very-low-income units can receive a development bonus of up to a twenty percent increase in allowable intensity, floor area ratio, or height, or up to a twenty percent parking reduction, with the affordable units required within city limits, near public amenities, and within a half mile of a major transit stop.