What SB 477 Does.
Reorganizes all California ADU and JADU statutes into a dedicated chapter of the Government Code (Title 7, Division 1, Chapter 13), consolidating previously scattered provisions from sections 65852.2, 65852.22, 65852.23, and 65852.26. This urgency measure took immediate effect, providing attorneys, developers, and local agencies with a single consolidated reference for ADU law.
What It Means For You.
Housekeeping with real benefits: all ADU law now lives in one dedicated chapter of the Government Code, so your architect, your city, and your builder are finally reading from the same page.
The Official Summary.
Below is the Legislative Counsel's Digest, the official plain-language summary that accompanies every California bill.
Existing law provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes and reorganize various provisions relating to the creation and regulation of accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, including the provisions described above, and would make related nonsubstantive conforming changes.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.