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Lompoc staff show draft ‘permit-ready’ ADU plans, say $450,000 state grant funded design work
Summary
RRM Design Group presented six draft permit-ready accessory dwelling unit (ADU) plan types to the Lompoc Planning Commission on July 9, 2025. The plans were developed under a state-funded program intended to shorten the permitting timeline; staff said the $450,000 award paid for consultant work, not direct homeowner subsidies.
Rachel Hollander, senior planner with RRM Design Group, updated the Lompoc Planning Commission on the city’s permit-ready ADU program, which RRM is designing under a state grant the city secured.
Hollander said the city was awarded $450,000 (REIT funding) to support implementation of the program and that a portion of those funds are paying for consultant work to produce preapproved plan sets. “A portion of those funds was to fund the development of those plans to really pay for the consultant costs of developing those plan sets,” Hollander said.
The consultant shared a context study and six preliminary plan sets: four detached ADU types and two garage-conversion plans. Hollander said the plans were informed by a citywide character analysis and a…
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