City Council
Staff Report
From: City Manager
Report Type: INFORMATION REPORTS
Lead Department: Planning and Development Services
Meeting Date: June 9, 2025
Report #:2504-4568
TITLE
Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) - 2025 Quarter 1 (January - March 2025) Report
RECOMMENDATION
This is an informational report, and no action is required.
ANALYSIS
This report transmits information related to application activity for accessory dwelling units (ADU), including junior accessory dwelling units (JADU) for the first quarter of calendar year 2025. Since 2015, the City has received 842 ADU/JADU building permit applications and issued 654 building permits. While 40 percent of the remaining un-issued applications are considered abandoned, 60 percent of the applications were submitted in 2024 or later and are still in review and/or pending a resubmittal from the applicant. In the first quarter of 2025, the City received 42 new applications, issued 30 ADU/JADU permits and provided an approved Final Inspection on 36 ADU/JADU permits. As it relates to the Housing Element, the data continues to support the anticipated housing unit production expected from ADU/JADUs for the current Housing Element cycle, which is an average of 64 units per year over the eight-year planning period or a total of 512 units. Between 2023 and March 2025, the City has issued 282 ADU/JADU building permits.
In Q1 of 2025, the ADU sizes of open applications in this period range from 200 to 997 square feet, with an average size of 579 square feet. Approximately 38% of applications are located north of Oregon Expressway, and 62% are located south of Oregon Expressway. Since 2017, the majority of ADU/JADU permits relative to the Oregon Expressway has shifted between north and south from year to year. Further details can be found in Table 1 of Attachment A.
FISCAL/RESOURCE IMPACT
This action has no fiscal impact.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A: Q1 2025 ADU Data
APPROVED BY:
Jonathan Lait, Planning and Development Services Director