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Thousand Oaks adopts streamlined film-permit ordinance, drops $5,000 expedite fee
Summary
The City Council approved an ordinance to modernize film permitting, remove the $5,000 expedite fee, and move permit policy authority to the city manager to make Thousand Oaks more competitive for productions.
The Thousand Oaks City Council on a 5–0 vote approved an ordinance to revise the city's commercial filming regulations and related fees, aiming to make the city more attractive and quicker for productions while preserving neighborhood protections.
Deputy Cultural and Community Services Director Melissa Hurtado told the council the ordinance would move film-permit processing into the Cultural and Community Services Department, replace the existing signature-survey rules with impact-based notification practices, and scrap the $5,000 expedite fee that industry representatives said deterred short-notice shoots. "We don't see the need to charge this fee," Hurtado said, describing a new "a…
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