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General Contractor Serving All of Ventura County

Serving All 14 Cities & Communities · Licensed & Insured · Lic. #1027281 · Since 1994

Master Construction has built across Ventura County since 1994 — from the beach cities on the Oxnard Plain to the Conejo Valley, up the Santa Clara River Valley, and out to the ranch country around Somis. Every one of those places builds differently. Coastal salt and slab moisture on one side of the county, hillside grading and fire requirements on the other, and a separate building department in nearly every city. We already know how each of them runs a plan check.

ONE COUNTY, FOUR BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS

Ventura County is small enough to cross in an hour and varied enough that a detail which works on one side of it fails on the other. Thirty years of building here means knowing which is which before the drawings start, not after a plan check correction.

The coast and the Oxnard Plain

Salt air, marine-layer humidity, sandy soil and a high water table. On the beach side of Oxnard, Port Hueneme and the Pierpont neighborhoods of Ventura, corrosion-resistant fixings, flashing detail and slab moisture control matter more than anything you choose for looks. Properties near the water can also pick up coastal review on top of the building permit, which runs on its own timetable.

The Conejo Valley

Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills are mostly 1960s to 1990s housing now hitting its remodel years, wrapped in protected open space. That brings three constraints at once: HOA architectural review in many neighborhoods, oak tree protection that reaches into the root zone, and wildland-urban interface standards governing roofing, eaves and vents along the open-space edge.

The Santa Clara River Valley

Santa Paula, Fillmore and the citrus country between them hold the oldest housing stock in the county. Knob and tube wiring, galvanized supply lines, century-old framing and settled foundations are normal here, and the work is as much about modernizing systems as it is about finishes.

The inland valleys and ranch country

Simi Valley sits in its own warm valley where summer heat makes HVAC sizing and attic insulation decisive rather than optional. Moorpark, Camarillo and Ojai each mix newer tracts against older cores, and out around Somis the properties run on wells and septic under agricultural zoning, on acreage where site work and drainage matter more than the house.

PERMITS CHANGE AT EVERY CITY LINE

Ventura County has ten incorporated cities, and each one runs its own building department with its own submittal system, plan check queue and fee schedule. Drawings that clear plan check in Ventura can come back with corrections in Simi Valley or Camarillo. We submit in all of them regularly, so a package goes in built to the rules that city actually applies rather than the ones next door.

A few are worth knowing in advance. Newbury Park has no building department of its own — it is part of the City of Thousand Oaks, so permits run through the Thousand Oaks Building Division. Across most of the newer neighborhoods in Moorpark and Camarillo, HOA architectural review runs alongside the city permit on a separate monthly calendar. And Westlake Village and Agoura Hills sit in Los Angeles County altogether — different code adoption, different systems, a different fee schedule, and a regular surprise for owners expecting a Ventura County process.

We hold the permit relationship on your behalf in all of them. That means the submittal is assembled to the rules that jurisdiction actually applies, and the correction cycle is ours to chase rather than yours.

WHAT WE BUILD ACROSS VENTURA COUNTY

One licensed general contractor covering twenty services, which is the difference between managing a roofer, an electrician and a painter separately and holding one contract for the whole job. Design, planning and permitting happen in house, so a project does not stall between the drawing and the build.

Every one of those is delivered countywide. A remodel in Camarillo and a restoration call in Oxnard run through the same licensed team, the same schedule discipline and the same jobsite standards.

CITIES AND COMMUNITIES WE SERVE

Each city page covers the local housing stock, the permit process for that jurisdiction, and the work we do there most often.

  • Ventura — county seat, coastal zone and historic downtown
  • Oxnard — harbour, Strand and the Oxnard Plain
  • Camarillo — planned neighborhoods and the Heights
  • Thousand Oaks — Conejo Valley and the oak ordinance
  • Newbury Park — Dos Vientos and the wildland edge
  • Simi Valley — tract remodels and real summer heat
  • Moorpark — High Street and the newer tracts
  • Agoura Hills — Old Agoura, hillsides, LA County
  • Westlake Village — lakeside, HOA-governed, LA County
  • Santa Paula — Victorians, Craftsman homes, historic core
  • Fillmore — 1920s bungalows and a restored downtown
  • Ojai — valley architecture and design review
  • Port Hueneme — beachside, naval base, tight lots
  • Somis — ranch and acreage, county jurisdiction

Not on the list? We work throughout Ventura County and the western edge of Los Angeles County. Call (805) 667-8800 and we will tell you plainly whether your project is a good fit.

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