Edited From Neighbors for a Better San Diego
This is our best chance to right the wrongs of the Bonus ADU Program. Two remaining meetings will determine the fate of San Diego’s single-family neighborhoods.
The brand new San Diego Community Coalition also joins in this call.
- May 15th, 1:00 PM — Land Use & Housing committee (LU&H) meeting of San Diego City Council —
City Administration Building at 202 C Street, 12th Floor
San Diego, California 92101and - June City Council meeting June 2 at 2pm
We need all hands on deck for the May 15 LU&H meeting. LU&H is made up of four of the nine City Council members, and their recommendation will greatly impact the full Council vote in early June.
How you can help today… Sign up to cede (lend) your time to speakers from Neighbors or from Community Coalition at the May 15 LU&H meeting.
In a nutshell
The Planning Department’s recommendations work around the edges of the Bonus ADU issues, but don’t address fundamental problems such as the Program’s inequality, number of ADUs, setbacks, height, and number of stories.
OUR SOLUTION
Neighbors For A Better San Diego and San Diego Community Coalition recommend that San Diego’s ADU regulations be updated to:
- Apply the Bonus ADU Program citywide, allowing no more than 3 ADUs on any single-family parcel in the City of San Diego. Eliminating the “unlimited” SDA bonus puts every residential single-family zoned parcel on equal footing, giving every San Diego homeowner a clear expectation of what can be built on their neighbor’s property — now and in the future.
- Require a 4-foot side and rear setback on all new detached ADUs, including ADUs under 16 feet, per State law.
- Restrict ADUs to two stories, per State law.
- Limit the height of new detached ADUs to 16-18 feet and the height of attached ADUs to 25 feet, per State law.
- Amend Planning Department proposals as noted in NFABSD’s April 30 letter to the Planning Commission.
- Consider all additional proposals from the Community Planners Committee, including sunsetting the Bonus ADU Program in 2029 at the end of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) cycle.
