City staff presented a proposal to amend the Oxnard City Code to allow agricultural and construction vehicle sales with incidental repair and service as permitted uses in the city’s heavy‑manufacturing (M2) zones, a change staff said would apply to roughly 29 parcels concentrated in central Oxnard and on the city’s south and east sides.

Juan Carlos Torres, associate planner in the Community Development Department, told the City Council the application—filed as planning and zoning permit No. 25‑580‑01 and submitted by Julie McCasling on behalf of Todd Industrial Park—would amend Oxnard City Code chapter 16, article 3, division 11, section 16‑1‑163 to add the uses to the M2 zoning designation. Torres said the amendment would require a development design review, subject to approval by the community development director.

Staff told the council the zoning code already allows agricultural and construction vehicle sales with incidental repair in the ML and M1 zones, and that similar activities—such as marine equipment sales with incidental repair, mobile home sales and display, outdoor storage, vehicle service stations, and truck and bus storage—are currently listed as permitted uses in some M2 areas, often subject to design review. Torres said staff determined the proposal is categorically exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and recommended filing a notice of exemption.

Torres noted the Planning Commission reviewed the item on Aug. 7, 2025, and recommended the City Council approve the zoning text amendment. He said a public hearing notice was published and, to date, staff had not received public comments on the proposal. Staff’s recommendation to the council was to find the project categorically exempt under CEQA, approve the ordinance on first reading by title only, and waive further readings.

The presentation included maps showing the M2 parcels: the Central Industrial Area south of Fifth Street, west of Rose Avenue and north of Wooley Road; M2 areas southwest and southeast of Sturgis Road and Alnorton Boulevard; and properties near Mount Vernon Boulevard and Edison Drive. No council action or vote on the ordinance was recorded in the transcript; the record shows only the staff presentation and the Planning Commission’s prior recommendation.

If the council adopts the ordinance, future individual uses would still be subject to the required development design review and any conditions imposed through that review process.