ADUs

What are Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)?

Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADUs under 500 sq.ft.) are an innovative and effective option for adding much needed housing in California.

ADUs have been known by many names: granny flats, in-law units, backyard cottages, secondary units and more. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is the state’s leader on local ADU ordinances, which have grown exponentially in number as more cities and counties as homeowners become interested in ADUs as one solution to increasing the supply of affordable housing.

What are the benefits of ADUs?

Our permit-ready Tiny Mansions/Smart Living Homes ADUs are HCD inspected and approved, under the Factory-built Housing (FBH) department ordinances (State ID 1579783).

HCD declares that Factory-built housing means that our ADUs “are the factory constructed version of a site-built residential structure.” Like regular site-built structures, our ADUs are stamped by a CA Licensed Architectural firm, Structural Engineering Firm and Fire Suppression Firm, and built as per California Residential Code Title 25 and Title 24.

While many pre-fab structures need to record a Form 433A in order to convert them from personal to Real property once they are placed on a permanent foundation, our Factory-built ADUs are considered by the State of California as Real Property from the outset.

Nobody comes even close to our ADUs in finished product, value or price:

Leading with the California Law

Recent changes to legislation related to zoning and housing laws have made it increasingly easier to add a JADU or ADU on existing properties in California. The red tape associated with building an ADU on a residentially zoned property (both single-family homes as well as multi-family properties) has effectively disappeared, giving developers and investors an unprecedented opportunity to increase homeowner’s income, space, and property value.

AB 68: Municipalities must approve an ADU application in less than 60 days. No parking space necessary if the ADU is built less than 1⁄2 mile away from public transportation. JADUs are less than 500 sq .ft. ADUs are 800 sq. ft. (base) 16-foot-tall with 4-feet of setback. Up to two (one JADU/one ADU) can be built in an owner-occupied scenario.

SB 13: No owner-occupancy requirement until 2025. Homeowners can lease both their home and ADU. HOAs can’t prohibit ADUs. No impact fees on ADUs less than 750 sq. ft. (a $30,000+ savings to the homeowner/investor.)

SB 1120: Adjusts property law where property owners can build an ADU and then split off the property on which it is built, creating a separate second parcel. Attractive financing.

Los Angeles Municipal Code 12.22A.33 & GC Sec. 65852.2: Movable Tiny Homes are now ADUs for permanent dwelling.

SB 9: Known as the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, this law streamlines the process for a homeowner to create a duplex or subdivide an existing lot for 2 duplexes (4 units max.) per R-1.

Contact us today at +1 (480) 878-1111 for more information on our MTHs, ADUs or our Single Family Residences (3,4 and 5 bedrooms)!