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Update: City of Santa Cruz ADU Regulations

Santa Cruz Architect

The State of California has a recognized housing shortage, with the result that both Sacramento and local municipalities throughout California have made myriad recent changes to the regulations governing ADUs. What is an ADU? Bathroom and full kitchen facilities can either be shared with the rest of the home or be exclusive to the JADU.)

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A4 Spotlight: Accessory Dwelling Units in RI

A4 Architects

The fact that the country was in the midst of the Great Depression and there were essentially no zoning regulations further facilitated the break-up of larger houses into apartments and ADUs. Local zoning regulations often lacked clear guidelines, created uncertainty for homeowners and hindered potential ADU development.

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Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG

BD+C

The social aspect of ESG is less regulated and structured than carbon emissions, and it’s still unclear what precisely it will mean and how it should get reported. financing more socially inclusive projects is often the stickiest issue—particularly if you want to take something that is classified as office and convert it.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend? Fear of density, however, remains.

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How 20% affordable can impact development pro formas

Brandon Donnelly

This Twitter thread by Richard Wittstock of Domus Homes (developer out in Vancouver) is a timely follow-on to yesterday’s post about housing supply, land-use regulations, and specific policies such as inclusionary zoning. Even if you believe it is the right public policy approach, there is still a cost.

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Housing supply in low-cost and high-cost municipalities

Brandon Donnelly

However, as home values increase, the incentive to build and the ability to finance new projects also increases, and that is what we see in the above chart. The answer likely has to do with restrictive land-use regulations. This is what our industry often refers to as exclusionary zoning. The math just doesn’t work.

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AB 1033 Will Allow Condoization of ADUs

Santa Cruz Architect

AB 1033 would also be advantageous to current homeowners who could use the sale of an ADU to help finance its construction. within single-family zoned neighborhoods. Approximately 1/3 of these new ADUs are being permitted as condos results of a heightened effort on Seattle’s part since 2019 to loosen ADU regulations.

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