Supervisors send ADU fee‑waiver ordinance back to committee to tighten eligibility and reporting

The Board of Supervisors on April 30 voted to send an ordinance—part of a broader building‑code amendment package that included fee waivers for 100 percent affordable housing and an ADU pilot—back to committee so supervisors could refine the ADU fee‑waiver language.

Supervisor Mar raised that she and Supervisor Brown had been working on amendments to the ADU portion of the ordinance intended to “strengthen the reporting requirements, and to also to target the fee waiver to ADU applicants who truly need the financial incentive.” Supervisor Brown said the office wanted to “dig a little deeper on this … and we would like to send it back to committee so we can also have public comment.”

Supervisor Brown made a motion to send the ADU portion back to committee; the motion was seconded and passed without objection.

What the board directed: referral to the Government Audit and Oversight committee for further amendment and public input focused on (per supervisors' description) refining reporting requirements and targeting fee waivers to exclude speculative landlords and better identify applicants with genuine financial need. The board did not adopt the ADU fee‑waiver language at this meeting.

Next steps: the GAO committee will consider the proposed amendments, receive public comment, and may return a revised ordinance to the full board. Any changes to fee‑waiver eligibility or reporting requirements would be adopted in a future board action.