Editing Oxnard, California (section)

===Cityscape===

Oxnard is a combination of neighborhoods and urban development focused on the downtown, coastline, and harbor areas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Section 1 of the General 2030 Plan for Oxnard|url=http://oxnard.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=35&clip_id=1740&meta_id=103615|website=Granicus|access-date=July 9, 2016|pages=1|language=en}}</ref> The city's main land uses are industrial, residential, commercial, and open space.<ref>{{cite web|title=Section 3 of Oxnard 2030 General Plan|url=http://oxnard.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=35&clip_id=1740&meta_id=103615|website=Granicus|access-date=July 9, 2016|pages=3–12 and 3–13|language=en}}</ref> One and two-story buildings characterize the city. The two tallest buildings in the county are in the northern part of the city at Topa Financial Plaza. The fourteen-floor high-rise was built in 1973, and the 21-floor high-rise was built in 1986.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Polakovic |first=Gary |date=February 23, 2007 |title=Sky's the limit as high-rise fever soars in Oxnard |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-23-me-hirise23-story.html |access-date=January 6, 2023 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The city is surrounded by agricultural land and the Pacific Ocean, as well as the [[Santa Clara River (California)|Santa Clara River]]. The city's primary development lies along Highway 101 and the other main roads.<ref>{{cite web|title=Section 3 of the General 2030 Plan for Oxnard|url=http://oxnard.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=35&clip_id=1740&meta_id=103615|website=Granicus|access-date=July 9, 2016|pages=3–1|language=en}}</ref>

The [[Henry T. Oxnard Historic District]] is a {{convert|70|acre|adj=on}} [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] that is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in Oxnard. Covering F and G Streets between Palm and 5th Sts., in the city, the district includes 142 houses, 139 which are "[[contributing buildings]]" and includes homes built mostly between 1906 and 1925.<ref name="npgallery.nps.gov"/> It contains abundant [[American-Craftsman]] and [[Revival architecture|Revival]] architecture. Eric Andrist, owner of the district's [[Henry Levy House]] since 2021, has created a new website with a database of all of the houses and their basic stats and histories. He found that the original research to create the historic district was full of errors and is setting out to find documentation to correct it all with evidence including old news articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://henrylevyhouse.com/historic-district-houses/|title=Database of the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref>

Ormond Beach is a beach along the Oxnard coast. The beach, which stretches for two miles,<ref>{{cite web|title=Ormond Restoration Project|url=http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/ormond-beach-wetlands-restoration-project/|website=California Coastal Conservatory|access-date=July 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422180324/http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/ormond-beach-wetlands-restoration-project/|archive-date=April 22, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> adjoins the Ormond Wetlands, some farmland, and power plant remains. It covers the area in between Points [[Point Hueneme|Hueneme]] and [[Point Mugu|Mugu]] and is a well-known birding area. The beach historically contained marshes, salt flats, sloughs, and lagoons, but surrounding agriculture and industry have drained, filled, and degraded the beach and wetlands. A dune-transition zone-marsh system is still along much of the beach.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ormond Beach|url=http://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/ormond-beach/|website=California Beaches|access-date=July 13, 2016}}</ref><ref name=Kelley>Kelley, Daryl (April 29, 2001) [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-29-me-57192-story.html "Illness Forces Environmental Crusader to Sidelines."] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''</ref>