Help us expand our coverage next year and get access to exclusive features by becoming a paid Building Salt Lake Member today. The Salt Lake City Council is gearing up to debate changes to its rules around where property owners can build accessory dwelling units (ADUs), and debate will revolve around how far the city wants to go to use the small backyard and basement dwellings as a source of housing. As currently written, the

Financing and rebate programs, and providing permits in under two days, are among new initiatives City of St. Petersburg administrators hope will encourage homeowners to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Councilmembers have increasingly looked to ADUs, also known as garage apartments or carriage houses, to help mitigate the ongoing affordable housing crisis. During Thursday’s Housing, Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting, they heard how several new measures should help accomplish that goal. Council Chair Gina

ROCHESTER — Rochester is preparing to open the door wider for the creation of accessory-dwelling units, sometimes called “granny flats,” but one builder decided not to wait. Bigelow Homes recently unveiled an ADU built over a garage of a new single-family home in its Harvestview subdivision in Northwest Rochester. “This has been in the works for years,” said Mike Paradise, the company’s president. The exterior of a home being marketed with an accessory-dwelling unit is

CHRIS D. CRAIKER The recent showcase of ADUs, accessory dwelling units, put on by the Napa/Sonoma ADU Center highlighted how homeowners and builders can tackle creating granny flats in one’s backyard. The examples range from 150 sq. ft. to 740 sq. ft. The construction types varied from conventional “stick-built” to factory and partially factory manufactured products. There will be many ADU plans available, including many municipally preapproved plans by some government agencies. The center has

Photo Courtesy City of Port Hueneme Port Hueneme–The City Council, Monday, December 19, introduced and amended section 10802 of Chapter 6 of Article 10 in the Port Hueneme Municipal Code for Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) development standards. ADUs are otherwise known as Granny Flats, Casitas, and Second Dwelling Units, which can be detached, attached, or within a second residence as a Junior ADU. “The State Government Code has established certain development standards to use,” Community

What trends stole the spotlight in 2022? Even in the midst of a building slowdown, we had no problem bringing plenty of news your way. Development in Salt Lake City continues to outpace national activity, and local dynamics cohered into some distinct trends we reported on over the year. Here are the top seven. 1. The city gets serious, kind of, about infill After years of hand-wringing by city council members and objections by defenders