Believe it or not, the most time consuming part of this whole ADU journey was not the construction, but rather getting through the permitting process with the county (I live in an unincorporated area so I had to deal with a county instead of a city). Even though the whole permitting process was not particularly pleasant, I’m glad I went through it and will go over the reasons why later in this post. To be fair, the whole permitting process was painful and confusing for me mainly because I wasn’t familiar with the whole process and didn’t know what to expect. Hopefully this post will help you navigate the ADU permitting process a little bit better than I did.
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