City planners are reminding the community of the upcoming deadline for their preapproved ADU program, which gives architects and designers a chance to submit designs that are 70% complete for permitting. The submission deadline is Oct. 1 at 5:30 p.m., and plans must adhere to the city’s existing design guidelines to be considered.
Through this new program, the city hopes to increase new construction to comply with its housing element and Governor Gavin Newsom’s mandate that cities develop a preapproved ADU program. “I think the idea behind it is just to help facilitate and encourage the construction of ADUs,” Chloe Chen, the city’s Principal Planner of Long-Range Planning told the Courier.
