Experience building an ADU?

[Courtney M.]

Does anyone have any experience building an accessory dwelling unit in or around Saint Petersburg or the surrounding area? 

[Zach Kidd]

The city of St Pete just opened up the ability to build new ADUs. See: 

Unincorporated Pinellas County would be your next best bet. It's difficult to target "unincorporated" areas via searches.

My next two target areas would be Largo, then Pinellas Park, although I have no idea if they allow ADUs. Just an educated guess that they are more likely to allow it versus other municipalities.

If you come up with better information, please reply so I can learn about it too! 

[Bryan Senk]

Any luck here with a GC that specializes in ADUs in the Pinellas county region? 

[Dan Maciejewski]

I have a client that's going through it in St Pete right now.  I think he's GCing it himself but he definitely needed plans drawn up by someone.  

I know Dan Lee of KW takes all kinds of jobs with his construction group.  They might be able to do it.

St Pete definitely wants more housing so the approval process isn't too bad as long as you follow codes.  I'll attach the new adopted ordinance below:

Link to St Pete Ordinance on ADUs

[Courtney M.]

@Bryan Senk I spoke with https://www.caskconstruction.c... Who I spoke with was very knowledgeable, and if I were to go through with it, I would use them. I did find out that the adu has to be less than 40% of the total square footage of the main house. So for me, I don't think it is worth it for the project I was looking at. 

[Chad Holman]

Quote from @Courtney M.:

@Bryan Senk I spoke with https://www.caskconstruction.c... Who I spoke with was very knowledgeable, and if I were to go through with it, I would use them. I did find out that the adu has to be less than 40% of the total square footage of the main house. So for me, I don't think it is worth it for the project I was looking at. 

Hey Courtney I’m one of the owners of Cask Construction. I haven’t been on bigger pockets in a while but came across this post this morning. You probably spoke to my business partner but just wanted to clarify. ADUs in st Pete can be up to 67% of the main house SF but cannot exceed 800 sf (so if your house is 1200 sf or more you can build up to an 800 sf adu). We specialize is ADU construction in st Pete and Pinellas county so please let us know if you need any help with one. 

[James Daymon]

Very easy to work with the county, but have a lawyer do deep dive on title. Fully permitted ADU brought in Myakka City, later disallowed by neighbor stating covenant did not allow manufactured homes.