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Agoura Hills planning commission backs code updates to allow newer home equipment, tighten review for riding academies
Summary
The commission voted 4-0 to recommend city council adopt zoning amendments that clarify rules for wall- and ground-mounted residential equipment (including tankless water heaters and battery storage), allow director-level determinations for new technologies, and move riding academies to planning-commission review.
The Agoura Hills Planning Commission voted 4-0 on March 5 to recommend that the City Council adopt amendments to Article 9 of the Agoura Hills Municipal Code clarifying rules for ground- and wall-mounted accessory equipment in residential zones and changing which uses are subject to director review.
Associate Planner Eric Wong told the commission the changes respond to council direction from 2025 goal-setting and aim to remove uncertainty that has treated some newer technologies—such as tankless water heaters, heat pumps and emergency battery energy storage systems—as technically disallowed because they are not explicitly listed in the current code. "For wall mounted equipment, some are now explicitly allowed," Wong said, and the draft creates a staff-level path for "non-captured" types so they can be allowed in rear yards when they would not create a public nuisance.
The draft preserves baseline protections such…
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