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Is it possible that a ADU mandate could have a unintended consequence of making real estate prices even more unaffordable? I mean I get that it adds rental housing housing units but it means that people that can afford to buy before the ADU mandate can now afford to buy at even higher prices. I don't think the effect of a ADU mandate is that prices stay the same while properties generate additional income making buying more affordable.
 
Joe Flacco said:
Did California always have state level development regulations? It is very surprising to me that ADU development standards are regulated at the state level.
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New since 2017, state of CA is imposing on local jurisdictions in what looks like an unprecedented intrusion into local neighborhood planning. Lots of resistance to the effort among neighborhood groups, who in the city of SB are relatively well organized.
 
gregb said:
New since 2017, state of CA is imposing on local jurisdictions in what looks like an unprecedented intrusion into local neighborhood planning. Lots of resistance to the effort among neighborhood groups, who in the city of SB are relatively well organized.
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It is a pretty significant expansion of power for the California DHCD. Next thing you know they will turn all single family zoning in the state to 1-4 unit zoning.
 
Joe Flacco said:
It is a pretty significant expansion of power for the California DHCD. Next thing you know they will turn all single family zoning in the state to 1-4 unit zoning.
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Opposition is fragmented, as home owners see it as a new freedom to add to the property and tenants see it as new rental inventory. Only opposition is some home owners who don't want to see their formerly SFR neighborhoods overwhelmed with parking congestion and higher density population. One benefit to appraisers is that AVM's have no clue about what is actually on a site given that they don't look at city and county building permits. :)
 
gregb said:
Opposition is fragmented, as home owners see it as a new freedom to add to the property and tenants see it as new rental inventory. Only opposition is some home owners who don't want to see their formerly SFR neighborhoods overwhelmed with parking congestion and higher density population.
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I am sure most homeowners want the right to have a ADU until they see everybody on the street having to park in the yard.

I don't think the law makers thought this through. Imagine a PUD of townhomes with a detached garage and all of those detached garages becoming ADU's.
 
Corollary issue, not yet touched by CA, is around the Airbnb rights of a property owner.
 
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