Agoura Hills Municipal Code Part 1 Content and Purpose

This article shall be known as the "Zoning Ordinance of the City of Agoura Hills."

The city council has initiated a comprehensive planning program in order to ensure that the anticipated growth within the city is organized, planned and coordinated in a manner that will not place an undue burden on the city in its ability to provided municipal services and facilities, and more importantly will be consistent with the rural and residential character of the existing community. This effort has culminated in the preparation and adoption of a comprehensive general plan. The implementation of the general plan requires, among other measures, the development of a regulatory zoning ordinance to govern the uses of land and the density and intensity of development consistent with all the goals, objectives and policies of the city's general plan. This article is the zoning ordinance required by the city's general plan.

The zoning regulations of the city are adopted to protect, promote and enhance the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare; guarantee that development is compatible with the rural and residential character of the community; ensure that development within the city is related to the city's ability to proved essential municipal services and is consistent with the Agoura Hills general plan. More specifically, these regulations are adopted to achieve the following objectives:

A. Relate proposals for development to the provisions and recommendations of the general plan and ensure consistency of development with the general plan;

B. Provide the economic and social advantages which result from an orderly, planned use of land resources;

C. Foster a harmonious, convenient, workable relationship among land uses;

D. Ensure adequate consideration for urban design in the development process so that new development enhances existing development;

E. Lessen congestion on the streets, secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, and promote the health and general welfare;

F. Provide adequate light and air;

G. Prevent the overcrowding of land;

H. Avoid undue concentration of population;

I. Facilitate adequate provision of transportation, water, schools, parks, natural areas, roads, and other public facilities and improvements;

J. Establish the most beneficial and convenient relationship among residential, commercial, recreational, natural, and undeveloped areas while having regard to their suitability for the various uses appropriate to each of them and their potentiality for such uses as indicated by existing conditions, community-wide interests, and appropriate development standards;

K. Ensure that public and private lands ultimately are used for the purposes which are most appropriate and most beneficial to the city as a whole.