EEdition. to submit an obituary. Please email your obituary toobituarychicoer.comor call 5308967718. Please include your name, mailing address, and phone number along with the copy and photo. . EEdition. Why not spent about 150,000 to build a place that will bring you income of 2,000 or more per month? The East Bay city has ordered its staff to draft a local law authorizing sales. San Diego County is also considering quick approval. But then along came San Jose and beat Berkeley to it. In early June, that city s council voted to allow the separate sale of ADUs starting almost immediately. It s become routine for new teardownandbuildups in single family neighborhoods to include ADUs, often atop new garages built as separate structures from the houses they serve. Why not spent about 150,000 to build a place that will bring you income of 2,000 or more per month? asked one pitch from an ADU specialty contractor. This is exactly what an unpublicized new law known as SB 1033, which became effective Jan. 1, now allows, if cities and counties go along. San Jose became the first to act, with Berkeley also having approval on its future docket. The East Bay city has ordered its staff to draft a local law authorizing sales. San Diego County is also considering quick approval. It s only a matter of time before many more locales jump aboard. Buying studio or onebedroom ADUs could also become a way for young families to begin building generational wealth in areas most cannot afford even to consider today. Some Berkeley officials, who have long wrung their hands over the inability of city workers like police officers and teachers to live locally, say they expect ADU sales to be legal there soon, especially with San Jose showing the way. If this becomes as popular as rental ADUs have been, expect it to be a major factor in continuing the reversal of California s population drain of the last few years, without lowering property values of existing residents who have resisted other new laws calling for an end to single family R1 zoning. In all, this is a logical move that should have happened years ago and probably would have, if anyone had thought of it. Email Thomas Elias attdeliasaol.com. Copyright 2024 MediaNews Group
Cities like San Jose and Berkeley are allowing the separate sale of ADUs, which can bring in significant monthly income. This follows a new law, SB 1033, that permits such sales if cities and counties approve. The move is expected to help young families build wealth and potentially reverse California's population drain without affecting property values.