(A) (1) The purpose of this article is to provide specific standards designed to protect, maintain, and enhance coastal resources, consistent with the policies of the Oxnard coastal land use plan.
(2) The standards identified in this article are organized under the following resource categories:
(a) Habitat areas, including but not limited to, wetlands, estuaries, streams, riparian habitats, lakes, and portions of open coastal waters;
(b) Diking, dredging, filling, and shoreline structures;
(c) Visual resources;
(d) Hazards, including significant geologic, seismic, beach erosion, storm wave run-up, and flooding;
(e) Service inventories relating to service capacities, and their allocation on a priority basis;
(f) Development and its impact on cultural resources;
(g) Industrial and energy development relating to exploration and production of oil and natural gas resources;
(h) Coastal access and recreation, to assure opportunities for public access to the Pacific Ocean and related recreational uses; and
(i) Housing, including demolition, conversion or replacement, and preservation of sound and safe housing.
(`64 Code, Sec. 37-3.0.0)
(B) All development within the Oxnard Coastal Zone shall comply with the provisions of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 37-3.0.1)
(Ord. No. 2034, 2716)