Greenbelt ProgramGreenbelts are voluntary agreements between the Board of Supervisors and one or more City Councils regarding development of agricultural and/or open space areas beyond city limits. They protect open space and agricultural lands and reassure property owners located within these areas that lands will not be prematurely converted to agriculturally incompatible uses. Cities commit to not annex any property within a greenbelt while the Board agrees to restrict development to uses consistent with existing zoning. City and County elected officials of Ventura County were pioneers in designing and adopting greenbelts. The first greenbelt, between the cities of Ventura and Santa Paula, was adopted by the County and those two cities in 1967.There are now a total of seven in the County. These are: 1. The Ventura-Santa Paula Greenbelt 2. The Santa Paula-Fillmore Greenbelt 3. The Camarillo-Oxnard Greenbelt 4. The Santa Rosa Valley Greenbelt 5. The Tierra Rejada Greenbelt 6. The Ventura-Oxnard Greenbelt 7. The Fillmore-Piru Greenbelt Most greenbelt agreements are adopted by resolution, but the most recent, the Fillmore-Piru Greenbelt, was adopted as an ordinance. A general countywide map of the existing greenbelts is included. The County and several of the cities are now working together to re-adopt several greenbelts with more detailed boundary lines. It is expected that this process will be completed by early summer. As time permits, individual, higher quality maps of each greenbelt will be posted. For more information contact Debbie Millais at (805) 654-5037 or Deborah.Millais@ventura.org. |
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