Property Manager · San Diego, CA · Member since 2020 · 205 posts · 162 votes
I saw this article in San Diego today from inewsource. With so many people deciding to add an ADU for extra income, I felt like this article would benefit many on here. Beware of people trying to take advantage of you.
We've dropped off a lot of these checks to the treasury safe at the development services department.
It will be interesting to see what will come of this. We are closing out a few more ADU's this month so I wonder if the fee will change.
The City has definitely been racking it in on these too. Right before COVID we made new contacts and began doing ADU's and have permitted 10 and are contracted with 20 active ADU's. Investors have been moving quickly on these here in San Diego and paying the water/sewer fee.
We can't pull the permit without paying this fee so they have everyone by the nuts.
Thanks for sharing Andy! I too have a property in los angeles county and was interested of converting Garage to ADU. Has anyone done one recently in los angeles county? My property is in the san fernando valley are in Northridge.
We've dropped off a lot of these checks to the treasury safe at the development services department.
It will be interesting to see what will come of this. We are closing out a few more ADU's this month so I wonder if the fee will change.
The City has definitely been racking it in on these too. Right before COVID we made new contacts and began doing ADU's and have permitted 10 and are contracted with 20 active ADU's. Investors have been moving quickly on these here in San Diego and paying the water/sewer fee.
We can't pull the permit without paying this fee so they have everyone by the nuts.
@Andy Eakes - Thanks for sharing. I am sure so of the same problems are occurring in the Bay Area.
It seems that the local city rules and state rules have been changing so fast in California, along with the demand spike in demand, that the planning and permitting offices can't keep up. I know specifically that San Jose Rules have changed about 3-4 times in the course of 2 years. That's huge amount of change.