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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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Tiny Homes vs Traditional Homes: Which One is the Better Investment?

Architecture Ideas

Despite rising interest rates (~7%), many buyers still lean toward conventional housing due to better long-term financing options and property appreciation. However, hidden costs such as purchasing land, hooking up to utilities, or navigating local zoning laws can erode these initial savings.

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How Design Professionals Can Find the North Star in the Fog of Upheaval

Community Architect

Professionals who are guided not only by rules, codes, and regulations but also by societal values. Even local zoning has become so byzantine that specialty zoning lawyers and expediters are needed maneuver a project through the labyrinth of permitting and still finding it at times mired in lengthy litigation.

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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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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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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.