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Part 1 — CONTENT AND PURPOSE9120. - Generally.

9120.8. - H.

Agoura Hills Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · Agoura Hills

A.

Habitable room. "Habitable room" means any room for sleeping or living purposes excluding such enclosed places as closets, bath or toilet rooms, connecting corridors, unfinished attics, foyers, storage spaces, utility rooms, spaces used exclusively for cooking or eating, and similar spaces.

B.

Health retreat. "Health retreat" means any use providing a preventive and rehabilitative health care program on a live-in basis and offering dietary education and control as well as physical therapy, including gymnasium and other exercise equipment, solariums, yoga, swimming and outdoor recreational activities. "Health retreat" shall not include hospital, medical office or clinic, or nudist camp.

C.

Highway line. "Highway line" means the right-of-way line established for a parkway, major or secondary highway or street by this article. Such line is coterminous with the lot line on property adjoining a fully widened parkway, highway or street, except where the alternate cross-section is used. "Property line," as defined in this chapter, shall be deemed the "highway line."

D.

Hog ranch. "Hog ranch" means any premises where five (5) or more weaned hogs are maintained.

E.

Home for aged persons, foster family. "Home for aged persons, foster family" means any family residence, noninstitutional in character, providing twenty-four-hour care for not more than four (4) aged persons sixtyfive (65) years of age or older, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the department of social welfare of the State of California.

F.

Home for aged persons, small group care. "Home for aged persons, small group care" means any facility, noninstitutional in character, providing twenty-four-hour care for between five (5) and fifteen (15) aged persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the department of social welfare of the State of California.

G.

Home for children, foster family. "Home for children, foster family" means any family residence, noninstitutional in character, providing twenty-four-hour care for not more than six (6) children under sixteen (16) years of age, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the department of social welfare of the State of California.

H.

Home for children, special boarding. "Special boarding home for children" means any facility, noninstitutional in character, providing twenty-four-hour care for between seven (7) and fifteen (15) children under sixteen (16) years of age, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the department of social welfare of the State of California.

I.

Home occupation. "Home occupation" means an occupation conducted as an accessory use within a dwelling unit.

J.

Hospital. "Hospital" means a health facility other than a facility for the mentally retarded, having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and having an organized medical staff which provides twenty-four-hour inpatient care including one (1) or more of the following basic services: medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, dietary services, or psychiatric care and treatment.

K.

Hospital, small animal. "Small animal hospital" means any facility providing medical or surgical treatment, clipping, bathing or other services, including incidental boarding to dogs, cats and other small animals.

L.

Hotel. "Hotel" means any building or portion thereof with access provided through a common entrance, lobby or hallway to guest rooms, and which rooms are designed, intended to be used or are used, rented or hired out as temporary or overnight accommodations for guests.

M.

Hotel, single-room occupancy. "Hotel, single-room occupancy" means a commercial facility where individual secure rooms are rented to a one or two-person household. Single-room occupancy hotel units are provided on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and are typically eighty (80) to two hundred fifty (250)

square feet in size, with a sink and closet, but which require the occupant to share a communal bathroom, shower, and kitchen.

(Ord. No. 11-383, § 2, 3-9-2011)

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Contents — Agoura Hills Zoning Code
Agoura Hills Zoning Code
  1. Article IX — ZONING[1]
  2. Article IX — ZONING[[1]]
  3. Chapter 1 — INTRODUCTION
  4. Part 1 — CONTENT AND PURPOSE
  5. Part 3 — RV RESIDENTIAL-VERY LOW DENSITY DISTRICT
  6. Part 1 — PURPOSE AND DESIGN STANDARDS
  7. Part 3 — CS COMMERCIAL SHOPPING CENTER DISTRICT
  8. Part 11 — POM PLANNED OFFICE AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
  9. Part 9 — OS-DR OPEN SPACE-DEED RESTRICTED DISTRICT
  10. Part 1 — PURPOSE
  11. Part 4 — RESERVED
  12. Division 3 — UNDERGROUND FACILITIES[[16]]
  13. Division 5 — YARD STANDARDS
  14. Division 4 — OFF-STREET PARKING, LOADING AND LANDSCAPING
  15. Division 6 — NOISE REGULATIONS
  16. Division 7 — OAK TREE PRESERVATION GUIDELINES
  17. Division 8 — GUIDELINES FOR LANDSCAPING, PLANTING AND IRRIGATI…
  18. Division 3 — CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
  19. Division 4 — RESIDENTIAL DENSITY BONUS[[20]]
  20. Division 7 — SITE PLANS/ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
  21. Division 8 — TEMPORARY USES
  22. Division 9 — REVOCATION PROVISIONS
  23. Division 2 — DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
  24. Division 4 — PUBLIC HEARING PROCEDURES
  25. Division 5 — ZONING TEXT AMENDMENTS
  26. Division 6 — DETERMINATION OF USES NOT LISTED
  27. Division 7 — RULES OF INTERPRETATION
  28. Division 8 — CERTIFICATE OF USE AND OCCUPANCY
  29. Division 9 — REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

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