Mark Malone has rented the same hangar at Camarillo Airport for 42 years. In June, he published a letter asking the FAA to review a county decision he says handed a redevelopment bid to a firm proposing to replace his kind of small aircraft space with hangars built for private jets. His fight is about rent and hangar size. But the county process behind it touches something a lot closer to home for anyone buying or selling near CMA: the noise disclosure that shows up in escrow.
If you're weighing a purchase near the airport, or getting ready to list, the paperwork will tell you whether your address sits inside an officially mapped noise zone. What it won't tell you is that the map itself is built on a forecast horizon that's about to run out, right as a contested decision over the airport's future is still unresolved.
The Bid That Beat the Rules
On December 31, 2025, Ventura County issued RFP AIR 2026-01, seeking proposals to redevelop two parcels near the airport, a 4.1-acre site holding 49 existing hangars (42 T-hangars at 1,050 square feet each and 7 box hangars at 2,000 square feet) and a separate parcel of roughly five acres. Three proposals came in before bids closed:
- One would relocate the existing public-use hangars across the runway to expand private jet services on the vacated site
- Another would repair the existing public hangars while adding new private jet facilities nearby
- A third, from a bidder called Sky Harbour, would have relocated the public hangars into smaller, more affordable units and kept the current rate structure for general aviation tenants
The county ranked a fourth bidder, Air 7, highest. Its proposal replaces the existing 40-by-50-foot box hangars with 60-by-60-foot box hangars aimed at what its own filing calls "commercial aeronautical service providers." Mark Malone argues that swap doesn't meet the RFP's own requirement to replace hangars "in similar equal size and number," and he's asked the FAA to review whether the selection violated the airport's federal grant obligation to offer facilities on fair and reasonable terms.
Scott Barer, the community representative on the Camarillo Airport Authority, put a number on what tenants are facing at the board's March meeting:
"Prices for tenants would more than triple the rent for box hangars they don't need."
The Ventura County Department of Airports says the RFPs originated from letters of interest submitted by current tenants, and that the FAA requires the county to evaluate proposals for airport development as part of its Part 150 process. Whichever account you find more persuasive, the practical fact for anyone with property nearby is that the airport's physical footprint and fleet mix are actively being negotiated, not settled.
What a Buyer Actually Sees on the Disclosure Form
Camarillo Airport falls under the Ventura County Airport Comprehensive Land Use Plan, adopted by the Ventura County Transportation Commission (acting as the county's Airport Land Use Commission) on July 7, 2000. That plan covers Camarillo, Oxnard, and Santa Paula airports along with Naval Air Station Point Mugu, and it's the reason a home near CMA can carry a different disclosure obligation than one a mile away.
California's airport land use framework generally splits each airport's influence area into two zones. The inner zone, often labeled Area A, is where the disclosure obligation to buyers applies. The outer zone mainly governs how new development gets reviewed, not what a seller has to tell a buyer. Whether your specific address falls inside that inner zone depends on the boundary drawn in the county's adopted plan, not on how close the runway looks on a map app.
The Map Says 2027
Here's the part that doesn't show up in most conversations about buying near CMA. The FAA's most recent acceptance of Camarillo Airport's noise data, effective June 6, 2025, formally approved two documents: a 2022 Existing Noise Exposure Map and a 2027 Noise Exposure Map. That second document, the forecast version that planning decisions and disclosure boundaries lean on, was built around conditions expected next year.
Meanwhile, the growth argument driving the current fight looks a lot further out. Save Our Skies Camarillo, the resident group organized around the hangar RFP, points to county operations data showing roughly 12,000 jet and turboprop operations in 2022, with a department forecast reaching more than 49,000 by 2042, an average daily rate climbing from about 33 flights a day to about 134. The City of Camarillo has pushed back on how that jump gets described, clarifying in an official FAQ that a commonly repeated "400% increase" claim overstates the specific jet-only growth and that the roughly 50,000 figure combines jets and turboprops together, not jets alone.
Both sides can be right about different things. The county's officially accepted noise document only forecasts out to 2027. The debate over what the airport becomes runs another fifteen years past that. A buyer closing on a home near CMA this year is relying on a disclosure built for a snapshot that expires within the length of a typical starter mortgage's first refinance window, while the fight over what replaces that snapshot is still being fought over hangar square footage.
Why Camarillo Springs Doesn't Disclose Like Old Town
Distance from the runway is an intuitive way to guess at noise exposure. It's also not how the disclosure boundary actually works. A noise and vibration study prepared for a project near Camarillo Springs found that the area sits within the general flight paths of both Camarillo Airport and Naval Base Ventura County, yet lies outside the airport land use plan areas and the 60 dBA CNEL noise contours used to define those zones.
In practice, that means two homes that both sit under a flight path can carry entirely different disclosure obligations, depending on which side of a contour line drawn from 2022 flight data they happen to fall on. Old Town parcels closer to Airport Way sit inside the mapped influence area. A property further out under the same flight path may not. The contour, not the compass direction, is what your escrow paperwork actually cares about.
What This Means If You're Buying or Selling Near CMA
If you're selling a home inside the mapped Airport Influence Area, the disclosure obligation itself isn't optional and won't change based on how the hangar dispute resolves this year. What can change is buyer perception once county supervisors take up the RFP decision and the Part 150 process moves toward its next required update. A home that discloses cleanly today under the 2022 baseline could face different buyer questions once a fleet-mix shift starts showing up in flight track data.
If you're buying, it's worth asking your agent or the county for the actual Airport Influence Area map rather than assuming proximity tells the whole story, especially if you're looking at a property near Camarillo Springs or along the edge of the mapped zone, where the difference between inside and outside the contour isn't visible from the street.
The Board of Supervisors holds final authority over how the hangar RFP resolves, and county watchers expected a final vote by late summer 2026. Whether that vote has already happened isn't something this piece can confirm. What's clear either way is that the tension between a disclosure map built on 2022 data and an airport whose future traffic is still being argued over isn't resolved by one board vote.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does every home near Camarillo Airport require an airport disclosure? No. Only properties that fall inside the mapped Airport Influence Area, the inner zone often labeled Area A under the county's adopted land use plan, carry that specific disclosure requirement. Properties outside the mapped contour, even under the flight path, may not.
Will the outcome of the hangar RFP change my disclosure obligation this year? Not directly. Disclosure boundaries are tied to the adopted noise exposure map, which runs on its own federal review cycle. A hangar lease decision doesn't redraw that map by itself, though a shift toward more or larger jet traffic could eventually feed into a future update.
How do I find out if my specific address is inside the mapped zone? The Ventura County Airport Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the Camarillo Airport Part 150 documents, both maintained by the Ventura County Department of Airports, contain the contour maps used to define Area A. Your title company or agent can help you check a specific parcel against them.
Should I wait to sell until the Board of Supervisors makes a final call on the hangar proposals? That depends on your timeline and risk tolerance more than on the airport dispute itself. The current disclosure obligations apply regardless of how or when that vote happens.
Questions about a specific address near CMA, or anywhere else in Camarillo, are exactly the kind of detail worth working through before you list or write an offer. If you want a second set of eyes on what a property's location actually means for disclosure and timing, Paula Kropp is glad to help. Schedule My Clarity Call.
